DisneyToons review: Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast

DisneyToon’s 46th film

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My opinion right after watching the film

My opinion right after watching the film is that I like it that they did not make Tinkerbell the protagonist, and instead made one of her friends the main protagonist instead. The story is not really anything special, and it is a poor way to end the Tinkerbell franchise, but I will evaluate more on that later.

Production

There is no information in regards to the production of this film.

Story

The story begins with a newly designed Fawn (Ginnifer Goodwin) tending to a baby hawk with a broken wing back to health, but the issue is that hawks eat fairies. hen I saw her, I thought we were being introduced to a completely new character. She orders a wagon to sneakily move the hawk through Hollow to freedom, but Tinkerbell (Mae Whitman) forces her to admit the truth. The two carry it along, but it fails when Rosetta (Megan Hilty) tries to help her remove the berries from the wagon (which is really a disguise). The hawks see them, and one almost eats Iridessa (Raven Symone), until she is saved by a scout fairy named Nyx (Rosario Dawson), whom also helps rid of the hawks.

Nyz reminds me a lot of Pocahontas in regards to looks, and wanting to do what is best for her people. It is always interesting to see different aspects of this fairy lifestyle, so these scout fairies are neat. It is weird how the animal fairies are allowed to work with some animals, while others are too much of a hassle.

Queen Clarion (Angelica Huston) shows up and nicely tells Fawn to cut the bullshit, and to take her job seriously, since it is safety that matters. After she lets the hawk go, she is attracted to a growl, so she goes to the depths of the forest to see a monster, which would be later known as the Neverbeast. Pixie Hollow hears the noise as well, and Nyx is hunting down the animal fairies as to what the scary noise, which they all somehow attribute it to Fawn.

This all leads up to Fawn doing fieldwork on the Neverbeast, and she learns a lot about it. She does not see the Neverbeast as anything different than her many different encounters with other animals, except for one weird activity of him stacking rocks together. Fawn sees him as safe, and wants to show her work to Queen Clarion.

While this is happening, Nyx decides to go to the library to do some research about the roar. She is told that the roar came from the rare Neverbeast, which reappears out of hibernation every 900-1000 years to turn into an even bigger beast to absorb all of the light from the stacks of rock he is building, and will use the light from the rocks and the green smoke to destroy Pixie Hollow. Fawn, whom has grown attached to him (naming him Gruff), meets Queen Clarion, only to see that Nyx beat her to it. They both plead their case, and Queen Clarion decides that she trusts both of them to do the right thing. Nyx twists these words to her colleagues that they need to capture and destroy the monster at Dawn.

Dawn quickly approaches, and the scout fairies goes after Gruff, right as he finishes the two other poles of rocks. They are used to attract the lightning, which is placed in every land of the seasons.Tinkerbell tells the Neverbeast that the scouts are going after him, but he knocks her unconscious, which Fawn sees. She then thinks that he is the monster Nyx claimed he was, and sells him out to her to be trapped.

Tinkerbell is taken to the hospital, while everyone else hides in their secret compartments to avoid the disaster that is about to take place. When Tink is woken up, she tells Fawn that the Neverbeast was very conflicted, and that he saved her from being crushed and killed by a tree that was falling over her. This causes the wheel to turn, since he is supposed to collect the lightning instead of it hitting the trees, and causing it to burn down Pixie Hollow. She explains everything ti Nyx, and they let the Neverbeast accomplish its goal. Fawn later writes down the entire journey, as the Neverbeast finishes up repairing the damage the lightning caused in the community, before officially going back to hibernate. This leads to an emotional farewell between the Neverbeast and Fawn, since they will never see one another again. I found this interesting, since I always thought fairies were immortal, and to figure out that Fawn will pass away within the next millennium was fascinating to me. There is a ceremony to this hibernation, and all of the fairies make sure he gets something before his rest.

This is a very disappointing ending to the Tinkerbell franchise. We STILL do not know how Tinkerbell ended up meeting, and living with Peter Pan. We also do not know what happened with her and the other fairies. There is a good story somewhere, but of course us fans will have to create some theory behind it. As for the movie itself, you could take it or leave it. I like that Fawn was the main character, and the addition of the Scout fairies were nice, but outside of that, eh. I am glad that I am FINALLY done with DisneyToons after a long year and a half.

Characters

The side characters are more of the same, but the mains were pretty good.

I guess we learn that she is a bit reckless, like Tinkerbell. She is a pretty strong protagonist, and we see that she is more than a tomboy, and can get very emotional. If they did this with all of the other side characters, than it would have made this franchise better. WHY did they change her outfit though? It seems so unnecessary. I do not like how they felt like it was needed to give her a more feminine look, which is something she isn’t.

Nyx reminds me a lot of Pocahontas; serious, and kind of strict, but cares about her people, as she puts them before anything else. She was refreshing, as most of these characters are not practical.

I guess he is the misunderstood type. I liked how grumpy he was in regards to Fawn, and wanted to be left alone.

 

Animation

I am still baffled as to why they gave Fawn a new character design, but it is not badly animated. I like the design of the Neverbeast, and the textures they used in it. Otherwise, things are pretty much in the same quality in regards to the animation.

Music

To be honest, I cannot really recall the music at all in this film. It kind of just had the generic score this time around, which is disappointing.

Reception at Release

When the film was released on December 12th, 2014 in Europe, and March 3rd, 2015 in North America, it made overall  $31,178,525, which was seen as an underperformance. It did well enough critically, but like the others, not a lot of people review these films. The poor performance of this film, and the story issues in the seventh film caused all future additions of the Tinkerbell franchise to be cancelled.

Reception Today

There is no talk about this film to be honest. I guess it is kind of forgettable, outside of the fact that it killed the Tinkerbell franchise, and put DisneyToons into an unsure and unknown future.

Story: 6.5/10

Characters: 7/10

Animation: 7.5/10

Music: 6/10

27/40 = 68%

Next time…

Disneytoon Studios Review Conclusion. I will express what I learned about the company, give thanks, where things went wrong and right for the company, what I am gonna do next, etc.

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