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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70VarietyVarietyScores a goal for kids and adults alike.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterDwayne Johnson's energetic performance enlivens an otherwise by-the-numbers family comedy.
- 50St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonSt. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonThe comedy is so lame that the whole enterprise comes across as depressing.
- 50Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFocus. Tooth Fairy isn't as bad as you may have feared. It's not all that good, either, but at least it's possible to sit through it and hold down your popcorn.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere's no way I can recommend this movie to anyone much beyond the Tooth Fairy Believement Age, but I must testify it's pleasant and inoffensive, although the violence in the hockey games seems out of place.
- 38Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreThat Disney touch (which even Disney has trouble replicating) is missing. Even the hockey is unconvincing.
- 38Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe poster’s the funniest thing about the project: Johnson, sporting a pair of fairy wings larger than his forearms, glaring at the camera.
- 38Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyMichael Lembeck directs with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, pounding every joke and cliche until they are flat, flat, flat.
- 25Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisFor what it’s worth, Tooth Fairy is a somehow dimmer cousin of those Tim Allen “Santa Clause’’ movies.