A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!

A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!
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Genre	Comedy Fantasy
Distributed by	Paramount Home Entertainment Warner Bros (Home video)
Directed by	Savage Steve Holland
Produced by	Butch Hartman Scott McAboy Fred Seibert Marjorie Cohn Lauren Levine
Written by	Butch Hartman Scott Fellows
Starring	Drake Bell Daniella Monet Jason Alexander Cheryl Hines Susanne Blakeslee Daran Norris Tara Strong Steven Weber David Lewis Randy Jackson
Music by	Guy Moon
Cinematography	Jon Joffin
Editing by	Anita Brandt-Burgoyne Damon Fecht
Production company	Pacific Bay Entertainment Billionfold, Inc. Frederator Studios
Country	United States Canada
Language	English
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Release date	July 9, 2011 (2011-07-09)
Running time	61 Minutes 56 Minutes (syndicated version)

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. This is the first Nicktoon to be shown in live-action. 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.

On March 14, 2012, Nickelodeon announced a sequel to 2011’s hit live-action TV movie, A Fairly OddMovie: Grow Up Timmy Turner, entitled "A Fairly Odd Christmas", set to air in 2012's holiday season. ^[1]

Plot

Years after the original series, Timmy Turner has grown into a twenty-three-year-old man, but through maintaining a lifestyle considered immature for someone of his age he has managed to keep his fairy godparents. However, Timmy's refusal to mature greatly irritates his parents, who seem desperate to encourage him to finally leave home, and Jorgen von Strangle, who is constantly scheming up plans that will entice Timmy into giving up his fairies. However, one day Timmy winds up reuniting with a girl from his childhood named Tootie who once possessed an infatuation on him and sees that she has grown into a beautiful activist. Soon, Timmy starts to fall in love with Tootie and begins to date her, much to the chagrin of his fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, who continuously scheme to repel Tootie. Meanwhile, Timmy's schoolteacher (as he refrained from passing the fifth-grade in order to remain more childish), Denzel Crocker, teams up with an oil tycoon by the name of Hugh Magnate in order to kidnap Timmy's fairies and use their magic for their own delights.

At the same time, a romantic relationship develops between Tootie and Timmy, who is torn between keeping his fairies and dating Tootie. However, one day Magnate deceives and kidnaps Tootie while Crocker captures Cosmo, Wanda, and their baby son Poof, imprisoning them in a device programmed to use their magic to grant anybody's wishes. After betraying Crocker, Magnate tortures the fairies by fooling around with the wish-granting invention, which electrocutes them each time somebody makes a wish, but fortunately soon Timmy comes to the rescue of both the fairies and Tootie (who also has been incarcerated in Magnate's evil lair) and battles with both his enemy and the toy robot that Magnate used the fairies' magic to anthropomorphize, successfully freeing Tootie. However, now Timmy is forced to give up his fairy godparents, who vanish forever. Althought Timmy is saddened deeply by the departure of Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof, he is happy to be free to latch on to more mature behaviors as he longed to do, but soon learns from Jorgen von Strangle that because of his courage a new law was passed in Fairy World that will now permit him to keep his fairy godparents forever as long as he makes only charitable wishes. Because of this, Tootie and Timmy plan to start a charity organization in which they will make wishes that will mend all of the world's problems or travesties, flying away in a magical van.

Cast

The cast of the film features performances from Drake Bell, who plays the role of twenty-three-year-old main protagonist Timmy Turner, and Daniella Monet, who stars as Tootie now as an adult woman and the deuteragonist.^[2] Daran Norris, Susanne Blakeslee, and Tara Strong reprise their voice roles as Timmy's fairies: Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof respectively, while Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines appear as human counterparts of the first two respectively.^[2] 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.^[2] Daran Norris and Teryl Rothery appear 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 and the tertiary antagonist 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. Raugi Yu Dang (Mr. Young) has a cameo as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant^[3][4]

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.^[5][6]

Sequel

Twenty days after the movie premiere on Nickelodeon, The Fairly OddParents creator and movie writer Butch Hartman tweeted that he was working on ideas for a sequel to Grow Up, Timmy Turner! ^[7]. On March 14, 2012, during Nickelodeon's 2012-2013 Upfront, a sequel to 2011′s first live-action TV movie was announced. The upcoming film, entitled A Fairly Odd Christmas, is set to air in 2012's holiday season.^[1]

References

External links

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