Tinker Bell | |
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Directed by | Bradley Raymond |
Produced by | Jeannine Roussel |
Written by | Jeffrey M. Howard |
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Narrated by | Loreena McKennitt |
Music by | Joel McNeely |
Edited by | Mark W. Rosenbaum |
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Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment |
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78 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $50 million |
Box office | $9,199,510 |
Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell | |
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Developer(s) | Genius Sonority |
Publisher(s) | Disney Interactive |
Distributor(s) | EA Distribution |
Director(s) | Bradley Raymond |
Producer(s) | [*] |
Composer(s) | Joel McNeely |
Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
Release | October 28, 2008 |
Genre(s) | Adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Tinker Bell is a 2008 computer animated film and the first installment in the Disney Fairies franchise produced by DisneyToon Studios. It revolves around Tinker Bell, a fairy character created by J. M. Barrie in his play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, and featured in the 1953 Disney animated film, Peter Pan and its 2002 sequel Return to Never Land. Unlike Disney's two Peter Pan films featuring the character, which were produced primarily using traditional animation, Tinker Bell was produced using digital 3D modeling. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Walt Disney Home Video on September 18, 2008.
Tinker Bell is the first Disney film to feature Tinker Bell in a speaking role. Actress Brittany Murphy was originally selected for the part, before the role went to Mae Whitman.
Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) is born from the first laugh of a baby, and is brought by the winds to Pixie Hollow (which is part of the island of Never Land). She learns that her talent is to be one of the tinkers, the fairies who make and fix things. Two other tinker fairies, Bobble (Rob Paulsen) and Clank (Jeff Bennett), teach her their craft, and tell her about the fairies who visit the mainland to bring each season. Tinker Bell is thrilled and cannot wait to go to the mainland for spring.
While out working, she meets Silvermist (Lucy Liu), a water fairy; Rosetta (Kristin Chenoweth), a garden fairy; Iridessa (Raven-Symoné), a light fairy; and Fawn (America Ferrera), an animal fairy. After meeting them, she notices Vidia (Pamela Adlon), a fast-flying fairy who immediately dislikes her because of her unusually strong talent. Vidia challenges her to prove she will be able to go to the mainland, and Tinker Bell creates several inventions, which she shows to the Minister of Spring (Steve Valentine). But Tinker Bell soon learns from Queen Clarion (Anjelica Huston) that only nature-talent fairies visit the mainland.