A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! (2011)

Preety cool. 10 stars. I agree this is not the best live-action movie, but if YOU liked the TV series, then YOU still can LOVE this movie. # OH, and yeah, 10 stars. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **----------------------- BUT...... Timmy is 23 YEARS OLD, and he still acts like a 10 years old kid. # Sooooo, compared to the TV series, of course it's a huge gap. # And, of course, it wasn't possible to make those carton effects. Regarding the plot, I was pretty surprised. Oh, and those spooky goblins were not as nice as they were supposed to be. And Crocker wasn't hunched at all. But, YOU know, it's a kid movie. Regarding Tootie, Daniela Monet acted very well, and this was OK for the movie.The fairies were animated and it was pretty weird. But hey, we're talking about some cartoon converted to movie Stuff.

This has totally ruined the show. No, you do not take a fun, zany cartoon and make it a live-action movie. I actually stopped watching it after the special when Poof was born. It seemed to just get stupid after that.But then this movie came, and I almost died. I do like Drake Bell, but please, please, PLEASE do NOT throw him in a roll that soiled Timmy Turner. I'm sorry Bell had to play in this train-wreck of a movie.In a cartoon, this whole movie would've been so much better because the script is written as a cartoon. In live-action, you get really cheesy effects and a VERY cheesy plot. Now, I know it was written for younger kids, but come on!A twenty-three year old who has never left the fifth grade and never had a kiss or anything? Granted, he was twenty-three and if he tried to date any of them, he would be a pedophile. But still, he's gone through puberty and all that, and he hasn't even TRIED to hit on a girl?They made it clear in one episode that usually kids' fairy godparents are lost when they hit high school age because, you know, they fall in love and all that junk. Why? Because they are hormone-strung teens. He would've succumbed to the pressures of love. How can a twenty-three year old be friends with kids half his age his whole life?And Tootie. Oh my goodness, she had such a stupid roll. Giving her scenes where she randomly goes Jackie Chan on everyone? I can handle the environmentalist thing, but being a black belt? Come on. Get real.So then Timmy falls for his previous stalker. Cosmo and Wanda, who I loved in the show, are just plain idiots in the movie, ESPECIALLY when they become waiters. As fairy godparents, they should LET GO of their child, not keep trying to keep him, especially when the head hauncho told Timmy to loose them. Then there was Crocker. In the show, it was funny when he would yell "Fairy godparents!" but the effects in this movie were just plain dumb when he did it. His shenanigans were also quite amusing, but this—this was just, well, retarded. Especially when he was able to catch the fairies so easily. This was probably one of his most easiest plans to avoid, but the fairies fell for it right away! So Timmy's falling in love, so their intelligence level drops fifty points?And the ending—oh my goodness, the wishing machine? So stupid. The ball pit that never ended? The effects made me want to puke. I've seen movies from the forties with better effects.So, they get the fairies back and then the fairy leader ((can't remember the name, sorry)) lets Timmy keeps his fairies. Wait, what? He can KEEP his fairies? They made it VERY clear that you can NOT keep your fairies after you grow up! You are supposed to forget about them!Okay, so then I assumed the show was over. But then I saw the commercial after the movie. A whole new week of Fairly Odd-Parents! WHAT? You make a movie about him growing up only to come out with more episodes?I am very confused.At least my kid sister liked it.In conclusion, this movie is a total complete kids movie that seemed to ruin Fairly Odd-Parents.

This movie is so bad that it left me speechless when it was over. All I keep asking myself was WHY WHY WHY? Some films are so bad that all you can do is laugh. "A Fairly Odd Movie" is not one of them. I just stared in utter horror the entire way through. Everything about this movie was wrong: making it live action, Timmy's casting, the script...everything. How they got Jason Alexander to sign on I'll never know.Most of all, this heaping pile of poop is a disgrace to "The Fairly Odd Parents"."A Fairly Odd Movie" was just so unnecessary. The moron who green-lighted it needs to be fired. Nickelodeon should be ashamed.

The world premiere of Nickelodeon's new, made-for-TV movie based on their long-running TV series "The Fairly OddParents" aired this evening. I spent a good portion of my morning and afternoon watching the 10 original "The Fairly OddParents" shorts (made between 1998 and 2001 for Nickelodeon's "Oh Yeah! Cartoons") so I could refresh my memory of the beginnings of the series before seeing the end. Those original shorts, and the earliest seasons of the series (which started its first full season in 2001) are full of offbeat humor and larger-than-life characters. Every character, every story line is over-the-top, but always brilliantly so.That's why I'm happy to report the new, live-action movie is just as over-the-top as the earliest episodes: a now 23-year-old Timmy Turner is still in the 5th grade, completely content to live like a child if it means he can keep his fairy god parents, Cosmo and Wanda (much to the chagrin of his parents). Unfortunately for Cosmo and Wanda, the once obnoxious Tootie has moved back to Dimmsdale as a full-grown woman. Even worse: she's captured Timmy's attention. When an evil oil magnate teams up with Denzel Crocker to capture the fairies and harvest their magic powers for evil, Timmy has to make the biggest decision of his eternally-youthful life: will he grow up and be with Tootie, or will he leave Tootie to rescue his oldest friends?The editing and pacing of the movie are reminiscent of a typical episode from the TV series: Mom & Dad quickly swoop into scenes to toss out some quick dialogue, and swoop out as quickly as they came; Denzel Crocker's erratic twitches when he says "FAIRY-GOD-PARENTS" are intact; Cosmo's idiocy is as smooth as ever. Long-time fans of the TV series will find a lot of little touches in the styling of the film to appreciate it (my personal favorite: an appearance by Chompy the Goat).As a capstone to one of Nickelodeon's biggest successes, it is as good as a live-action movie based on an over-the-top, highly stylized cartoon could be. It is not, however, a perfect movie. The whole thing isn't much longer than an extended episode of the TV series. It only filled its 90-minute time slot because of the long commercial breaks. As a result, most of the supporting characters are only seen briefly, and are anything but developed. Tootie, who hasn't lived in Dimmsdale for thirteen years, has somehow never gotten over her third-grade crush on Timmy. Timmy's feeling of repulsion toward Tootie quickly switches into admiration, and not too long after, his Love-O-Meter (which Wanda checks regularly) is beeping madly. Evil babysitter Vicky appears so briefly, there's almost no point to her being in the movie beyond a one-note joke (it involves Vicky's chosen career for her adult life). Timmy's childhood pals, Chester and AJ, appear just long enough to establish what has become of them since elementary school, but do little else to support the story than give Timmy a ride because he only owns a bicycle.Then there's an issue of inconsistency with the fairies. The Schwarzenegger-like fairy Jorgen Von Strangle is portrayed in the movie by a human actor. A scene in the later part of the film depicts many other fairies in human form. So why do Cosmo and Wanda spend all but maybe five minutes of the movie as creepy computer-animated versions of the series' classic 2-D depictions? For that roughly five minutes of screen time, Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines portray full-sized human versions of the magical duo. Susanne Blakeslee and Daran Norris continue to provide voices to the animated Cosmo and Wanda (as they have done since the series premiered). Ignoring the fact that the animated and live-action voices of Cosmo and Wanda do not match (a fact alluded to by Mr. Alexander and Miss Hines shortly after their first appearance on screen), one is left with no explanation as to why these two fairies were computer-animated for the bulk of the movie, and every other fairy is seen in full-sized human form. With today's technology, it should not have been hard to digitally shrink Mr. Alexander and Miss Hines so they could float around Timmy during the movie. It would have been better if the filmmakers had made the creative decision that all non-magical humans would appear normally, and all fairies would appear in CGI form. The gag the humanized Cosmo and Wanda appear for could easily have been accomplished with a bit of magic from the CGI fairies. The fact that the humanized Cosmo and Wanda never reappear after that scene makes it all the more distracting. I should also mention that Poof (Cosmo and Wanda's son, introduced in 2008) also appears in CGI form with his parents (he's a pretty silent role until the end of the film, when he opens his mouth and releases a surprise voice).Fairy inconsistencies aside, the movie is definitely worth a screening for long-time fans of the series. It's not brilliant movie-making, but it is a sweet little coda to the long-running series (seen on Nickelodeon in short and series form since 1998). I've already added the first season of the TV series to my Amazon.com shopping list, and when this movie finds it's way to DVD/BD, I'll most likely add it to my movie library.I give "A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!" a total of 7 Magic Wands out of a possible 10: *\ *\ *\ *\ *\ *\ *\