Why Tinkerbell Rocks
You probably don't realize how wonderfully subversive and cool the new Disney computer-animated Tinkerbell movies are. Underneath all the pixie dust and magic fou-fou is a great message for children: friends matter, don't give up no matter what, and HACKING IS COOL.
That's right, Tink's a hacker. To imagine a backstory for all the fairies from which Tinkerbell came from before she enters into the Peter Pan story, Disney's writers created classes of fairies who all have different jobs. One class handles water stuff, one handles plants, etc. The tinkers (can you see it coming?) are the builders and the fixer-uppers. They take junk, natural resources available to them, imagination, and elbow grease, and they totally hack stuff and build cool contraptions.
I think that's awesome. I like that that is the message my granddaughter is getting out of this.
It doesn't hurt that the art and style are great, either. There's still so much computer animation that just looks off, somehow, but Disney's animation DNA comes through in these two (the Lost Treasure is the second movie).
