TV Movie Review: A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!

Last night, Nickelodeon released a direct-to-TV movie based off its hit series The Fairly OddParents, A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! The movie features teen favorites Drake Bell and Daniella Monet along with adult favorites Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines in cameo roles.

The story is about Timmy Turner, the young pink-clothed character from the TV show, as an adult, still in the 5th grade, still living with his parents, and still has his fairy godparents. His parents desperate to get him out of the house so they can retire and head fairy Jorgen wanting him to grow up, Timmy does all he can to act like a child to still have his beloved godparents... and their Poof. However, when Tootie, an ugly girl from his child-childhood, returns to Dimmsdale as a, according to the story, beautiful woman, Timmy begins falls in love, much to the dismay of Cosmo and Wanda, his fairy godparents. Meanwhile, Mr. Crocker, Timmy's teacher, joins forces with Hugh J. Magnate, Jr., an anti-nature guy who wants to destroy Dimmsdale Park to build a hotel/oil well, to capture Wanda and Cosmo to make their evil wishes come true.

While the show sometimes gave me a headache, the movie actually pleased me. The movie replaces most of the show's crass humor with a theme and perfect plot structure. The show shows a young boy who gets fairies and uses them to wish for rather selfish things, hardly for anyone's benefit, and all is fun except for antagonists.

The movie has the following pros:

• Nostalgia: It's refreshing to see that the creators of the movie haven't lost gags from the original series such as Crocker's fairy-spams and brings back old characters, such as the Mayor of Dimmsdale and Chompy the Goat, AJ, and Chester.
• Dimensional Villain: You can't have a good movie without a villain with a purpose other than world domination. Magnate is a man who wants the things that his "daddy" never gave him or let him do such as play in a ball pit, go in a playground, and have friends.
• Good Conflict and Resolution
• Good Theme: Selfish to Selfless
• Acting: Drake Bell does a good job as Timmy Turner and David Lewis brings back the craziness of Crocker.
  

All in all, I think that Grow Up, Timmy Turner! is the best thing that's happened to the OddParents series since the Wishology trilogy.