Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure: Movie Review 

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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

Rating: 9 /10

Cast: Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman), Terence (Jesse McCartney), Queen Clarion (Anjelica Huston)

Director: Klay Hall

To the uninitiated this story is the second in the Disney Tinker Bell series, based upon one of the more mercurial characters in J.M.Barries' Peter Pan - Tinker Bell. 

As the story unfolds, we are welcomed to the magical world of Pixie Hollow, where fairies and enchanted creatures work with nature to change and manage the seasons.  One of these tasks is to grow and manage the supply of pixie dust - an ingredient derived from the pixie tree and central to the function and wellbeing of all fairies.

In preparation for the upcoming Autumn Revelry, Tinker Bell (or Tink) is called upon by Queen Clarion to create a new sceptre topped by a rare and precious moonstone.  At the culmination of this festival, the moonstone sceptre will be aligned with the blue harvest moon to create the precious blue dust required to rejuvenate the powers of the pixie tree.

Tink's efforts to build the perfect sceptre are frustrated by her too helpful friend Terence.  With four days until the Autumn Revelry both the sceptre and moonstone are accidentally broken, with Tink holding Terence responsible.

With a looming deadline Tink seizes upon the remote chance that she may be able to find and use the last remaining wish of the lost treasure; 'The Mirror of Encounter', last seen due north of Neverland.  Tink builds a magical air balloon and sets out alone&.

I will shroud the outcome of Tink's journey in mystery as it will spoil the ending, but needless to say, along with themes of friendship, tolerance and forgiveness - the audience is in the safe and capable hands of Disney.

So what did the audience think of Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure?

To review the movie I brought with me three subject matter experts: Amelie (6), Charlotte (4) and Molly (4).  The girls thought it fitting to wear fairy costumes to the movie, and they were not alone. 

Before the movie started, the audience was one heaving mass of highly excited, pink clad little girls choking on popcorn and adjusting their tiaras. 

Once it began, the movie was greeted by a raptured sea of little faces, all on the edge of their seats, lit up by the glow of the big screen.

Amelie: "The best bit was when they used the broken moonstone pieces to make lots of blue pixie dust."

Charlotte: "The scariest part was when the bat chased the fireflies into the hot air balloon"

Molly: "The part I liked best was when Tink found the ship that never sinks, and then Terence found her"

The girls talked about the movie non-stop all of the way home, and I was also treated to some very convincing re-enactments.

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.