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There's always been a place in movies for lunkheads, especially those who come from wrestling, a form of comedy as tightly scripted as most movies. Who can forget Andre the Giant in The Princess Bride or Jesse Ventura in Predator (before he became governor of Minnesota)? There was also the beloved bald-headed Tor Johnson, the Swedish scrapper who turned zombie for Ed Wood in Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Dwayne Johnson comes from two other proud lines of canvas men. His father was Afro-Canadian wrestler Rocky Johnson. His maternal grandfather was the legendary ''High Chief'' Peter Fanene Maivia of Samoa, who wrestled professionally in New Zealand and the US from 1964 to 1981.
As ''The Rock'', Dwayne Johnson became a hugely successful performer in the ring, after his professional football career went sour. He now largely plays sporting heroes in movies. Doubtless, a term as governor somewhere is in his future. A career as an actor might be too much to hope for.
Johnson is blessed with extraordinary looks - the body of a Transformer, the simplified face of a cartoon superhero and a dazzling smile that must have kept several orthodontists in work for years. He's likeable enough on film, in a limited sort of way. The more he plays himself - and there is little choice - the more natural his humour; the more he tries to play a role, the stiffer and hammier he gets. His first few movies as a leading man, such as The Game Plan, have been gormless and sentimental. Tooth Fairy follows in the same vein with more humour.
It is a ''family comedy'', but an odd mixture of mawkish sentiment and sporting violence, suggesting that it's trying to please everybody: bone-crunching ice hockey for the boys, sweetness and emotion for the girls.
The film is supposed to reinforce American Christian values. It's another joint venture from the coalition of conservatism that brought us the Narnia films and Bridge to Terabithia. Walden Media is the movie arm of the billionaire born-again Christian Philip Anschutz. They linked up in 2006 with 20th Century Fox, which is of course owned by another committed Christian, Rupert Murdoch.
The hilarious thing about Tooth Fairy is that it is a genuinely camp comedy. In the hands of director Michael Lembeck, who made Connie and Carla, Johnson frocks up in a tutu and Julie Andrews plays a fairy godmother in a Chanel suit. What someone the calibre of Ashley Judd is doing in the film is a mystery but I'm not complaining. And isn't that Billy Crystal dressed like a smart-mouthed, ageing leprechaun?
The big guy plays ice-hockey enforcer Derek ''Tooth Fairy'' Thompson, who's famous for knocking out his opponents' teeth. He's nearing the end of his sporting career and his cynicism shows when he tells a hopeful kid that he'll never be a hockey star. Babysitting for his girlfriend (Judd), he almost tells her six-year-old daughter that the tooth fairy doesn't exist.
That night, in a dream, he is summonsed to the kingdom of the fairies, where a very tall English fairy (Stephen Merchant) explains that he is to be punished. Andrews descends from the sky as a fragrant winged duchess who dislikes being interrupted - a bit like an ageing Mary Poppins with attitude. She sentences him to two weeks as a real tooth fairy, and Crystal kits him out with a tooth fairy's tool kit: a paste to make himself invisible, a wand and powder to erase people's memories. He's eventually dressed in blue satin, after a mix-up in magic that kits him out in a pink tutu.
The movie is funnier than I expected and still not funny enough. The playfulness in the script may have come from Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz - two seasoned pros - although I can't tell if it was their idea. They have long-standing ties to Crystal and Judd, which might explain their casting, but Mandel and Ganz are also well-known script doctors, and there are three other credited scribes.
Whichever, the film bubbles along nicely for the first few reels, as the Samoan Rock gets into a series of pickles while sneaking into children's bedrooms (to put a dollar under their pillows). Johnson feigns indignation at having to be a fairy; Andrews camps it up as his boss, behind gauzed lenses; Judd tries to look like she'd fancy this egotistical mountain of meat.
Ideology then takes over and the film becomes a boring lecture about the need to believe in fairies and dreams. Cynicism is routed etc.
It is only faint praise to say that this is a better comedy than The Game Plan. Johnson isn't aiming high anyway - and he's achieving it.
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