TOOTH FAIRY
A zany family comedy about encouragement, dreams, and second chances.
Should You Watch It?
If you want a genuinely funny family movie with a positive moral message, Tooth Fairy is worth your time. The physical comedy is lively, the dialogue is witty, and the cast brings warmth to a story about a hard-hearted hockey player learning to encourage others.
The film includes some hockey violence, comic mishaps, mild bathroom humor, and one locker-room scene with upper male nudity. Those concerns are limited, while the movie's central lesson is valuable: harshly crushing someone's hopes can do real harm, but encouragement can help people rediscover courage and purpose.
Take your family for a zany, surprisingly heartfelt comedy about building others up.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESDerek Thompson is an aging minor-league hockey enforcer known as “The Tooth Fairy” because of his specialty: slamming players into the boards and sometimes knocking out their teeth.
After Derek dashes a young fan's dream of becoming a hockey player, he receives a strange summons and is magically transported to Fairyland. There, the Chief Tooth Fairy sentences him to one week of hard labor as a real tooth fairy. Derek must now navigate a magical new job while confronting the dreams he has forgotten.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this is excellent family entertainment. Tooth Fairy is zany, hilarious, and unexpectedly witty. The physical comedy is very funny, while the dialogue gives the magical Fairyland characters plenty of personality.
The cast does a great job. Dwayne Johnson makes Derek's transformation engaging, and Julie Andrews, Stephen Merchant, and Billy Crystal add comic energy as memorable fairies. Ashley Judd and the children in Derek's life bring warmth and heart to the story.
The Worldview
The film presents a strong moral worldview with a Christian, biblical overtone that is uplifting. It includes a reference to God and a mention of the “higher power” of Alcoholics Anonymous. Its central lesson is that people should encourage one another rather than harshly dismissing their hopes, dreams, and aspirations.
The film also treats the pursuit of personal dreams as important. That idea can lack direction from God when treated as an end in itself, but the movie's stronger message is the need to build up other people as well as yourself. Its light romantic elements support the warmth of Derek's relationships without becoming the story's main moral focus.
The film's central call to encouragement aligns with Scripture: “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thessalonians 5:11).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Strong moral worldview with a Christian, biblical overtone that’s uplifting, plus a reference to God and a man in jail mentions to another man in jail about the “higher power” of AA, with some light Romantic elements; no obscenities or profanities, but a shrunken tooth fairy gets flushed down a toilet and smells afterwards; violence some hockey violence, such as players get hit and knocked down hard, one player loses a tooth which goes flying high up in the air, comic pratfalls, flying tooth fairy is hit with tennis balls, tooth fairy escapes cat and dog; no sex; upper male nudity in one locker room scene; no alcohol; no smoking; and, lying and man harshly tells two boys that their dreams are unrealistic but he is rebuked for not being encouraging and he learns his lesson.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Derek learns that harsh words can crush another person's hopes. How can your family speak encouragement that meets someone else's needs?
Ephesians 4:29 · 1 Thessalonians 5:11Why is it important to build up other people's hopes and aspirations rather than only pursuing your own dreams?
Romans 15:2 · Philippians 2:3–4Derek has forgotten his own dreams. What good desires might need to be recovered, and how can they be directed toward serving God and others?
Colossians 3:23–24 · Ephesians 2:10What is the difference between empty praise and truthful encouragement?
Proverbs 12:18 · Ephesians 4:15The Final Word
Tooth Fairy delivers what a family comedy should: big laughs, a warm cast, and a positive lesson about encouraging others. With only light content concerns, it is WORTH THE TRIP for families seeking upbeat entertainment.
