Peter Pan (1953) is not one of my most favorite Disney movies, so I don’t have much of an opinion regarding Disney’s plans to feature Tinkerbell in a new movie as part of a series of straight-to-video “Fairies” titles — but just on principle, I have to take exception to the fact that the pixie will now have a voice. To quote Reuters:
The creation of author and playwright J.M. Barrie, Tinker Bell spent the last hundred years fluttering about Peter Pan, jealous of Wendy Darling but never speaking up — until now.
“Anyone that can steal the screen without a single word of dialogue certainly deserves a film of her very own,” said Disney Studios Chairman Richard Cook.
That’s right — the character’s defining characteristic has been so successful, they decided to redefine it. Sheesh. And how much do you want to bet that Tinkerbell’s dialogue will consist of a lot of completely bland and unremarkable pap about “following her heart”? Don’t let these people anywhere near Gromit.
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