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The Pirate Fairy (G)
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This is the fifth movie in the Tinker Bell franchise. So, there's a dust keeper fairy named Zarina (Christina Hendricks). She's very curious about pretty much everything concerning pixie dust, questioning everything that all the other dust keeper fairies just take for granted. And Fairy Gary (the head dust keeper, in case I never mentioned him) forbids her to tamper with pixie dust. But it seems she's secretly been doing experiments for some time, but they always fail. However, she now tries using blue pixie dust in her experiments, to create other colors. (Until now, the only kinds have been blue and the far more common gold pixie dust.) And when she succeeds in creating a few other colors, she finds that they can change her talent. Pink gives her a garden fairy talent, and she accidentally grows a plant so large that it causes some major destruction... which leads to Fairy Gary firing her. So she packs a few things and leaves Pixie Hollow.
The movie then flashes forward one year. There's a "Four Seasons Festival," celebrating all the different realms of Pixie Hollow. Zarina shows up and grows a bunch of poppies that release pollen that puts all the fairies to sleep (ooh, just like The Wizard of Oz!) The only ones to escape this fate are Tink and her main group of friends, plus Clank. They discover that Zarina has stolen all the blue pixie dust, so the girls give chase, leaving Clank behind to look after the sleeping fairies. Zarina joins some pirates who are rowing back to their ship, and at first the girls think the pirates must have kidnapped Zarina, but it soon turns out she's actually their captain. The girls manage to get back the pixie dust, but then Zarina tosses multi-colored pixie dust at them, which knocks them out, and Zarina takes back the blue dust.
When they wake up, they find that Tink has become a water talent fairy, Silvermist is now a fast-flying fairy, Fawn is a light fairy, Iridessa is a garden fairy, Rosetta is an animal fairy, and Vidia is a tin-don't say it! (Um, yeah. Very ironic, though it would have been more so if Tink had become a fast-flying fairy. Then again, Tink being a water fairy is cool, because her VA, Mae Whitman, has some experience with waterbending.) And all their clothes have changed to match their new talents. And um... they once again catch up to the pirate ship and try to get the blue dust back. And there's a fun pirate song. And Rosetta unintentionally causes a crocodile egg to hatch, and "Crocky" imprints on her as its mother. (Yeah, it is the very same crocodile that will someday menace Captain Hook.) Incidentally, before I saw the movie, I had seen images of Crocky and thought he looked a lot like Gummy, Pinkie Pie's pet alligator from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Anyway, the ship docks in Skull Rock, where it turns out Zarina has grown her own pixie dust tree, which requires the blue dust to generate the gold dust that allows flight. Which the pirates intend to use to make their ship fly, which would allow them to plunder pretty much any treasure in the world. Oh, I should also mention that, as in Peter Pan, fairies' speech just sounds like tinkling bells to humans... though for some reason, a cabin boy on the pirate ship, James (Tom Hiddleston), seems to understand Zarina perfectly. Although that could just be a coincidence, considering a plot twist that I don't want to spoil. So, um... there's lots of fighting between the pirates and the fairies. And naturally, Zarina eventually joins the good guys, for a reason that is entirely predictable, though I still won't spoil exactly what it is. (Well, actually I put an image with some text at the bottom of the page that sort of spoils it, maybe. So you might not want to read that.)
The movie has a lot of humor and plenty of drama, and it's all really fun. And there are lots of entertaining references to various things familiar to fans of Peter Pan. And I would say also a few references to other pirate movies, or whatever. And there's a really amazing display at the end, when the Four Seasons Festival resumes. And uh... I enjoyed seeing some cameo appearances from various fairies, even if they didn't have speaking roles... particularly Glimmer from "Pixie Hollow Games." And... I worry that I may be forgetting things I wanted to say, but of course I can always edit this later if I think of anything to add. Though I did want to say that I found it amusing after the end credits to see a standard "Piracy is not a victimless crime" warning.
Oh, and the DVD included a couple of bonus short films, "Aaarrgh!" and "Treasure Chest." Plus I got the movie with a Walmart exclusive bonus DVD that included "Pixie Hollow Bake Off" and 10 other shorts.