Tooth Fairy

So, for adults, the best that can be said for Tooth Fairy is that it's funnier than the awful trailer.

It has a terrible screenplay and you get the feeling that Johnson could be a much better light comedian than this, given a better chance.

Although the film gets over the preposterousness of its own premise early enough, the tooth/truth puns are exhausted to a fault, assumedly aimed at giving adults something to titter at.

It has the plastic, disinfected aroma of something straight off the assembly line.

Truth is, Tooth Fairy is a very decent family film -- cute but never sickly, funny but never smug -- that's an ideal half-term afternoon-killer.

These films are all about sticking to a generic template, one in which a generally decent guy does a lot of bad things and must then redeem himself.

This is one film where families, especially those with small children, should ignore the critics and simply give in to the silliness of it all.

This is an obvious labor of love for the filmmakers and their collective eye for capturing the beauty, grace and, often, humor of their many dances (with Dom and Fiona) with geometric precision....

For what it is, Tooth Fairy is probably a success; it's not particularly smart or original but it doesn't care to be. That doesn't offer much hope to anyone else.