Today we continue our trend of kids movies/fandoms I've never paid attention to. Did you know there's a whole series of DTV movies starring Tinkerbell? Because I didn't. And she's apparently immortal? Zarina (Christina Hendricks) works as a dust handler in the Neverland pixie world. They use the yellow pixie dust to fly but Zarina believes they've only scratched the surface of its capabilities. She steals a spark of the blue pixie dust, which acts as an amplifier/catalyst, to use in her experiments, but when one goes wrong she is exiled. A year later, she returns and steals the entire container of blue pixie dust. Tinkerbell (Mae Whitman) and her friends believe that Zarina is acting under duress from a group of pirates but soon discover Zarina is their captain and plans to make enough pixie dust to fly the ship straight to Earth and plunder the cities from above. (Seriously, they have a whole song about it.)
This is definitely geared towards the 7-year-old girl demographic. Except for the part where it's a Captain Hook origin story. Yeah, that's a deep cut, fucking Shyamalan twist to throw into a third-rate direct-to-video spinoff series. I'm not saying it's a terrible movie, but I don't know that it's worth watching just to see a young Hook with his original hands. Even if he does sound like Loki.
I have no doubt this will get pulled when Disney launches their new streaming service, but for now, it's on Netflix.
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