A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!

A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!
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Directed by	Savage Steve Holland
Written by	Butch Hartman Scott Fellows
Produced by	Scott McAboy Fred Seibert Marjorie Cohn Lauren Levine Butch Hartman
Starring	Drake Bell Daniella Monet Jason Alexander Cheryl Hines Susanne Blakeslee Daran Norris Tara Strong Steven Weber David Lewis Randy Jackson
Cinematography	Jon Joffin
Edited by	Anita Brandt-Burgoyne Damon Fecht
Music by	Guy Moon
Production companies	Pacific Bay Entertainment Billionfold, Inc. Frederator Studios
Distributed by	MTV Networks International
Release date	July 9, 2011 (2011-07-09)
Running time	56 minutes
Country	Template:Film US
Language	English

A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! is a live action television film based on the animated series The Fairly OddParents. It first aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on July 9, 2011 to celebrate the series's tenth anniversary. Unlike the previous animated films of the series, this film was presented in live-action mixed with CGI animation. The television film was viewed by 5.8 million viewers during its original airing.

The television movie is set in the city of Dimmsdale and centers on the series' main protagonist Timmy Turner with his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda and his fairy godbrother Poof. In the movie, Timmy is now twenty-three years old but is still in fifth grade with his fairy-obsessed fifth grade teacher Mr. Crocker. Despite being grown up, Timmy finds a loophole in the fairy rulebook Da Rules: if he continues to act like a kid, he will still get to keep his fairies. However, the dilemma rises when Tootie, who was once a dorky girl when she was ten years old, returns to Dimmsdale as an attractive woman. Timmy falls in love with her, a sign that he is growing up to an adult, which means he is closer to losing his fairies. Meanwhile, an oil business tycoon named Hugh J. Magnate, Jr., who teams up with Mr. Crocker, plans to use Timmy's fairies' magic in order to promote his oil business.

Plot

Timmy Turner wakes up to his 23rd birthday party with his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda. Among the various gifts Timmy receives, Jorgen gives Timmy a copy of the rulebook Da Rules and points out that he loses his fairies whenever he either falls in love or moves out of the house. However, in cooperation with Da Rules, Timmy continues acting like a kid in order to retain his fairies. But when Tootie, now a beautiful and brave do-gooder, arrives in Dimmsdale, Timmy takes immediate interest upon seeing her, much to the fairies' concern because as soon as he falls in love they will be separated from him forever.

Hugh J. Magnate, Jr. arrives in Dimmsdale and plans to destroy the Dimmsdale dogwood tree at the town park in order to build an oil well hotel needed to access a large supply of untapped oil underneath the ground. Much to Magnate's chagrin, his plans fail, due to Timmy secretly wishing for the bulldozer and chainsaws to cease their operations. Later that night, Mr. Crocker meets up with Magnate at a restaurant, where he explains to him that fairies are the cause of Magnate's plans always backfiring. The two devise a plan to capture the fairies and Tootie so that Timmy is unable to stop them.

Tootie goes up to Timmy the second she notices him as a twenty-three-year-old for the first time. But the fairies make every attempt to stop the love relationship. While he initially agrees with the fairies' motive, Timmy objects to their actions because he now believes he is truly in love with her, though he still does not yet feel ready to give up his fairies. Despite fulfulling Tootie's wish for a beautiful park around the dogwood tree, Timmy avoids every opportunity to kiss Tootie and tries to explain the situation without giving away his fairy secret. She misinterprets and becomes angry, shouting at him to grow up, before she storms off.

Magnate kidnaps Tootie and takes her to an evil lair inside Magnate Power, his company headquarters, while Mr. Crocker uses a portable fairy incarcerator to capture Timmy's godparents. With Mr. Crocker's help, Magnate is now able to make wishes using the fairies' magic via a remote control. Each wish, though, drains the fairies' magical energies. Magnate wishes for a bottomless ball pit, and betrays Mr. Crocker by throwing him down into it. Tootie, who is kept in a spherical cage, notices the fairies inside their fairy incarcerator and that they are becoming increasingly fatigued due to the magic-draining effect. Tootie eventually manages to escape from the cage; however, she ends up dangling above the bottomless ball pit.

After he learns the news of Tootie's disappearance from his school classmates, Timmy finds his fatigued fairies inside the evil lair of Magnate Power. He saves Tootie from the ball pit and, realizing the only way to save Cosmo and Wanda is to grow up, finally kisses her, expressing his love to the fullest extent, which signifies that he has grown up. Consequently, Timmy's fairies fade away, though their magic energies are restored and all magical effects caused by Magnate are reversed. Confronting Magnate, Timmy realizes he is now all grown up, and he and Tootie leave the building. Magnate is later seen on the front of the newspaper in a straightjacket being sent to a psychiatric hospital, while his former assistant was named to run the Magnate tower saying that solar power will be used. Outside, Jorgen takes the couple to Fairy World before the fairy council, whom establish a loophole in Da Rules allowing Timmy to continue to keep his fairies, on the condition that he makes wishes for unselfish purposes. As a first way to accomplish that, Timmy and Tootie plan to travel and use his fairies' magic to help others around the world proving he has finally grown up and has a magical future with the love of his life Tootie.

Production

Cast

The cast of the film features performances of Drake Bell, who plays the role of twenty-three-year-old Timmy Turner, and Daniella Monet, who stars as Tootie now as a beautiful adult woman. Daran Norris, Susanne Blakeslee, and Tara Strong voice Timmy's fairies Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof respectively, while Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines appear as human counterparts of the first two respectively. Steven Weber stars as the main antagonist of the film, Hugh J. Magnate, Jr, alongside the secondary antagonist, Timmy's fairy-obsessed fifth grade teacher Mr. Crocker, played by David Lewis. Norris and Teryl Rothery are casted as Timmy's parents Mr. and Mrs. Turner, respectively. Mark Gibbon stars as toughest fairy Jorgen von Strangle, and Devon Weigel plays the role of Timmy's twenty-nine-year-old torturing babysitter Vicky. Chris Anderson and Jesse Reid take the roles of Timmy's friends Chester McBadbat and A.J., respectively.

The film also features cameo performances of series creator Butch Hartman, Harrison Houde, and American Idol judge Randy Jackson. Hartman plays as a restaurant waiter, while Houde makes a cameo appearance as a student hall monitor at school. Jackson voices Poof when he speaks his first complete sentences towards the ending of the movie.

Reception

The movie attracted 5.8 million viewers on its premiere night. It was also the top-rated broadcast on cable networks for the week ending on July 10, 2011. The film's ratings were highest for The Fairly OddParents movies since its preceding special Wishology, a trilogy film which attained 4.0 million, 3.6 million, and 4.1 million viewers for its three parts "The Big Beginning", "The Exciting Middle Part", and "The Final Ending", respectively, during its premiere broadcast during May 1-3, 2009.

External links

• A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! at IMDb
• Official FOP Movie website at Nick.com