Recently Sammy has been re-watching the Tinker Bell movies and since we’ve seen them a thousand times now, I’ve begun to pick them apart. The thing I find most inconsistent are the rules of pixie dust and how it applies to fairies.
From the very first movie we learn that if you sprinkle pixie dust on something it will float. Excellent, pixie dust = flight. We back this up in the second movie by showing that Tink needs extra dust to get her dirigible to a far off island and then might be stuck there once she loses her bag of dust.
All good so far? Great. Because now we get to the third movie and everything goes out the window. At the beginning of this movie, Vidia gets her wings wet and is then unable to fly. Indeed this becomes the crutch the rest of the script leans upon to prevent Tink’s friends from easily rescuing her. But why? Why do fairies need wings at all? Why can’t they just get sprinkled with pixie dust and fly. Later in the movie, Tink coats a girl with pixie dust which allows her to fly around her room. The girl doesn’t