Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (Blu-ray) (2010)

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General		Extras
Category	Family	Main Menu Audio & Animation Music Video Quiz Featurette-Design a Fairy House Deleted Scenes-with Commentary
Rating
Year Of Production	2010
Running Time	76:2 (Case: 76)
RSDL / Flipper	Dual Layered	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region Coding	1,2,3,4,5,6	Directed By	Bradley Raymond
Studio Distributor	Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.	Starring	Bob Hilgenberg Rob Muir Bradley Raymond Michael Sheen Mae Whitman Kristin Chenoweth Pamela Adlon Lucy Liu
Case	Amaray Variant
RPI	$44.95	Music	None Given

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	English DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 French dts 5.1 Italian dts 5.1 Dutch dts 5.1 English Descriptive Audio Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s) Hindi dts 5.1
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.78:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	1080p
Original Aspect Ratio	1.78:1	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	No
Subtitles	English Italian French Dutch	Smoking	No
		Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	Yes

     Tinker Bell returns for her third straight-to-DVD/Blu-ray adventure. This time around she and her fairy pals have travelled away from their island home of Pixie Hollow to prepare the real world for summer. The one rule for fairies on the mainland is to stay out of sight of the humans, which Tink inevitably breaks accidentally within moments of arriving. Tinker Bell finds herself captured by a little girl who is desperate to make her preoccupied scientist father (unmistakably voiced by Michael Sheen) believe in fairies. Whilst Tink contends with her young captor, her fellow fairy chums mount an epic rescue operation. Well, as epic as a 76 minute runtime will allow for...

     Although not quite up to the same high standard as her previous two solo adventures, Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue will keep its target audience amused for repeat viewings. The one let down in the film is its bland human characters. Rather than actually create personality for them beyond their cookie-cut stereotype, the film relies on viewers to infer everything about them from their being excruciatingly "British". Meanwhile, the fairies each get time to display their individuality.

     The animation is excellent and, as with the previous Tinker Bell movies, is a cut above plenty of theatrically released fare.

Video

     The film is presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio in 1080p/24Hz. The video looks excellent. The image is sharp and clear. The colours are bold and well detailed. There is no sign of compression artefacts or film artefacts at any point.

     English subtitles are present for the feature and appear to be accurate and well timed.

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Audio

     The film features a variety of audio options including an English DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 track, as well as French, Italian, Dutch and Hindi DTS 5.1 tracks and Russian, Arabic and Hindi DTS 5.1 tracks.

     The audio is flawless and well mixed. The dialogue is clear and easy to understand. The lip sync is a bit wonky but good enough, which is more of a sign of the accelerated pace at which this film was put together than a flaw as the sync for everything else is perfect. The rain and storm effects make particularly good use of the surrounds and subwoofer.

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Deleted Scenes

     Five Deleted scenes with introductions from the director.

How to Believe Music Video by Bridget Mendler

     An insipid manufactured Disney starlet sings an insipid manufactured Disney pop song. Kids will love it. Parents beware!

Design a Fairy House Featurette

     To promote the film, its producers set up an activity centre at Disney World's Epcot centre where kids could make fairy houses. This featurette shows a few kids making stuff and interviews them about what they've made. Yup, it's just like someone decided to make a featurette about kids doing holiday activities at the mall. Pass.

Tangled Sneak Peak (3:22)

     A sales pitch for an upcoming Disney flick, with fluffy interview bit from Zac thingy and Mandy Moore.

Fairy Field Guide Builder

     An interactive quiz about fairy lore in the world of Tinker Bell. Will keep the kids amused for a short while, but there isn't much to it.

DVD Copy of the Film

     Contains all the same extras as the Blu-ray, save for the Fairy Field Guide Builder quiz (though obviously in SD, PAL).

    The Australian Region B edition appears to be almost identical to the US Region A. The Region A misses out on Hindi, Italian and Dutch Language tracks but picks up a Spanish track and a host of additional trailers for other films.

     A decent entry into the Tinker Bell franchise, although not quite as good as the past two Tink movies. Audio and video are of a high standard. The extras are reasonable in number and quality.

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