Now it was a Half Term choice : School of Rock, or Tooth. Having a 9 and a 4 year old to please I opted for Tooth. As it turned out I wished I had in fact opted for root canal treatment.
The plot: two poor children come into vast amounts of money courtesy of a renegade young tooth fairy, who then attempts to get it all back and thus save Christmas. They are pursued by Evil-Mulder-"I want to believe and make everyone else believe too"-type Harry Enfield (the best thing in the film).
Ironically as the characters pursue the lost magic of the Easter Bunny-led Tooth Fairy underworld, it felt that the movie too was devoid of charm and magic; one forcibly cute kid and Jim Broadbent phoning in his performance as a 6 foot bunny does not enchantment make.
It struggles to raise even a smile. One feels like scenes were excised to save money(eg,the 'Your sister can talk Mermaid' scene). A throwaway line "It's the warmest Christmas on record" appears to exist only to explain why there is so much late Summer greenery around in December.
Disappointing.
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