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October 12, 2009

Don't All Run To Fandango Your Tooth Fairy Tickets At Once!

Tooth Fairy trailer, you guys:

I know that some things just aren't made for me, like, I'm clearly not the intended audience. I know that, of course I know that. So it makes sense that, say, the Sex and the City movie tries to appeal to lonely middle-aged midwestern women who have abandoned their dreams and live in a fog of unattainable aspirational fantasies rather than grumpy 60-something male pop culture blog writers. I get it! But sometimes there are things that even though they don't even attempt to appeal to me, still suggest an available and interested audience that I refuse to believe exists. Take, just for a totally random example that just happens to work conveniently for our purposes, this Tooth Fairy trailer. No one should want this. And if someone does want this, they should be buried in a pine coffin and forced to one-inch punch their way back to the living. Faced with that kind of terrifying mortal threat and test of one's martial arts training, you definitely reorganize your priorities in life. Am I suggesting burying thousands of children alive unless they recognize that this movie looks like absolute garbage? Yes. Yes, I am. WHEN I WAS A KID WE GOT BURIED ALIVE UPHILL BOTH WAYS!

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I want this. I want this soooooo bad.

Posted by: hlebtastic profile link at 10/12/09 4:06 PM  | Reply
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Gabe never learned to believe in magic. :(

Posted by: Godsauce profile link at 10/12/09 4:12 PM  | Reply
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I'm just gonna sprinkle some amnesia dust (relevance!) and then it'll be like Stephen Merchant never even in that movie.

Posted by: Zingers profile link at 10/12/09 4:13 PM  | Reply
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I can't wait for The Santa Clause and Tooth Fairy crossover. Shits gonna be tight!

Posted by: HarshBrowns profile link at 10/12/09 4:13 PM  | Reply
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It does get old Billy Crystal. IT DOES GET OLD.

Posted by: Jon1331 profile link at 10/12/09 4:13 PM  | Reply
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Was I the only one who was surprised when he said "Billy Crystal," because that is so obviously Christopher Walken?

Posted by: Ginger Ball Z profile link  in reply to  Jon1331's comment at 10/12/09 11:11 PM  | Reply
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to be fair, if we give the kids fist irons, they'll be buried alive,
but they won't really be buried alive-buried alive, you know?

Posted by: Constantinople profile link at 10/12/09 4:13 PM  | Reply
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I just watched that whole thing. Now I need some amnesia dust.

Posted by: That One profile link at 10/12/09 4:14 PM  | Reply
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Whoops.

Posted by: That One profile link  in reply to  That One's comment at 10/12/09 4:15 PM  | Reply
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Stephen Merchant should be doing other, bigger, podcast-er things.

On the plus side Julie Andrews b/c Julie Andrews is fun.

Posted by: Nicolina Marie profile link at 10/12/09 4:16 PM  | Reply
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"WHEN I WAS A KID WE GOT BURIED ALIVE UPHILL BOTH WAYS!"

When I was a kid we had to write all our homework on a shovel and bury ourselves alive with it too.

Posted by: hello my name is RAWR! profile link at 10/12/09 4:17 PM  | Reply
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So if I give myself a fun nickname at work, I might one day be called upon to BE that person? Sweet.

Posted by: neptuneflame profile link at 10/12/09 4:20 PM  | Reply
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everyone calls me diaperface
=(

Posted by: Constantinople profile link  in reply to  neptuneflame's comment at 10/12/09 4:50 PM  | Reply
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Relax guys, that wasn't Stephen Merchant. It couldn't possibly be.

Posted by: memo profile link at 10/12/09 4:20 PM  | Reply
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It's like, here I am, minding my own business, raising my kids to the best of my ability, telling them the truth because that's a value I believe in, and suddenly, you kidnap me and make me a tooth fairy slave essentially, and you're telling me that I might be the worst tooth fairy ever? The gall of that woman. The gall.

Posted by: Skillet profile link at 10/12/09 4:21 PM  | Reply
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What spellbinding wing effects. Let magic take flight.
Hollywood, you've knocked it out of the park yet again.

Posted by: Copperfeel-d profile link at 10/12/09 4:23 PM  | Reply
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Can Hollywood please refrain from stealing the plots of Kristie Ally Made-for-TV movies?

Posted by: Sammy at 10/12/09 4:27 PM  | Reply
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Is this gonna affect the Tooth Fairy canon?

Posted by: jimjbollocks profile link at 10/12/09 4:30 PM  | Reply
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I really liked the part where he said, "Lower your expectations, kid." But then it cut away before his next line, "This movie is going to be fucking awful." Movie Trailers 101. Leave them not wanting more.

Posted by: eric at 10/12/09 4:31 PM  | Reply
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Stephen James Merchant, you get out of this movie this instant! What is going on here? I mean take all the filthy hollywood cash you want but surely there were better offers out there than Toothfairy sidekick #2?

Posted by: dunebug profile link at 10/12/09 4:45 PM  | Reply
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You can't handle the WOOF.

Posted by: mike_d profile link at 10/12/09 4:52 PM  | Reply
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The producers must have gotten high off that amnesia dust, because I have seen this when it was called "Toothless". Except I bet in this movie The Rock doesn't go crying in an elevator, thinking he's going to hell, while a Bonnie Tyler song ("It's a Heartache" bitchezzz) plays in the backround.

Posted by: Ellamental profile link at 10/12/09 4:52 PM  | Reply
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Stephen Merchant just loves The Rock, you guys. If he had to kiss a man, it would be Dwayne Johnson. Or The Boss, but he takes what he can get.

Posted by: clockworkrobots profile link at 10/12/09 4:53 PM  | Reply
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I'm seconding Julie Andrews being a generally classy broad (despite being Disney property but man cut her some slack I guess)

Posted by: alejandrodelloco profile link at 10/12/09 5:10 PM  | Reply
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Your avatar is absolutely fascinating. It's like Being John Malkovich if John Malkovich Smoked Crack and Was Gary Busey.

Posted by: DuckDuck profile link  in reply to  alejandrodelloco's comment at 10/12/09 5:28 PM  | Reply
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"You are hereby found guilty of killing dreams"

Is that a thing? Because if that's a thing, this whole website has a lot of teeth to collect.

Posted by: Elliot profile link at 10/12/09 5:17 PM  | Reply
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Straight-to-Criterion-Collection with this one.

Posted by: DuckDuck profile link at 10/12/09 5:25 PM  | Reply
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Wasn't this a movie with Kirstie Alley?

Posted by: Freakindeakin at 10/12/09 5:34 PM  | Reply
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This makes me sad in my heart, seeing Ashley Judd in this.

Also - Derek Thompson / Dwayne Johnson?? I guess they didn't want to confuse him too much on set when they didn't refer to him by his real name, so they just altered it slighty?

Posted by: EverythingIsJustFine profile link at 10/12/09 5:45 PM  | Reply
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that trailer made me nostalgic for when I thought that Beverly Hills Chihuahua was going to be the most unwanted movie of all time forever and ever the end.

Posted by: josh profile link at 10/12/09 5:51 PM  | Reply
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Know your role,Gabe.

Fuckin' shit,I hate Billy Crystal.Can anyone on here call themselves a Billy Crystal fan..and why?

Posted by: alfred profile link at 10/12/09 6:03 PM  | Reply
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comedy math: stephen merchant + billy crystal x silly wig = 0. (hint: billy crystal + anything always equals zero.)

Posted by: Jeb profile link at 10/12/09 6:10 PM  | Reply
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If you had said Billy Crystal x anything I would have been on board.

Posted by: Lakonislate profile link  in reply to  Jeb's comment at 10/13/09 8:12 PM  | Reply
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Gabe! My sippy cup of Amontillado!

Posted by: dafs profile link at 10/12/09 6:10 PM  | Reply
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Well, January 22 can't come fast enough for me!

Posted by: Shaz at 10/12/09 11:09 PM  | Reply
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Stephen Merchant, you, sir, are guilty of TalbainJ-ing too hard.

Posted by: Ginger Ball Z profile link at 10/12/09 11:10 PM  | Reply
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A lesser known 2012 prophecy predicts a remake of Twins starring Rob Schneider and Dwayne Johnson.

Posted by: settlesun profile link at 10/13/09 8:19 AM  | Reply
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I don't know why everyone's hating on Billy Crystals, his work on Celebrity Zillions has been some of his best in years... http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a2505951fa3da47011fa3e0d8bf000e&cid=vplayer

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