My Fairy Troublemaker

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My Fairy Troublemaker
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Directed byCaroline Origer
Written bySilja Clemens
Produced byJean-Marie Musique
Christine Parisse
Maite Woköck
Sebastian Runschke
Starring Jella Haase
Lucy Carolan
Tammo Kaulbarsch
Production
companies
Fabrique d’Images
Ella Filmproduktion
SERU Animation
Release date
  • 13 October 2022 (2022-10-13)
Running time
85 minutes
CountriesGermany
Luxembourg
LanguageGerman

My Fairy Troublemaker (Meine Chaosfee & ich) [1] is a 2022 animation film directed by Caroline Origer. [2] A Luxemburgian-German coproduction, [3] [4] the film revolves around a tooth-fairy who remains stuck in the world of humans.

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Plot

Maxie, the teenage daughter of a single mother, is not happy to leave the countryside for the big city, but she and her mother move there to form a new family with Amir and his two sons, Sami and Derek.

In the world of fairies, Violetta misses her tooth-fairying exam one more time and she is denied the possibility of going to the world of humans. Despite all interdictions, she manages to go there with her firefly companion Gwen, and finds herself in Maxi's new room, thinking he is Sami.

But she can't go back to the world of fairies and he is soon discovered by Maxie. The latter helps her find another way to go home. Meanwhile, Yolando and the Professor, two fairies, try to access the world of human "the old way", through an old tree whose body leads to the world of humans.

Yolando is called to the world of humans anyway, as Sami has lost another tooth. There he gives Violetta the key to the portal in the tree. That tree happens to be in a warehouse a promoter wants to use to build a hotel. And although he cuts it in two, Violetta has the power to cure it and opens the gate. The Professor tells her that she will never be a tooth fairy, only to let her know she is in fact a powerful flower fairy who can cure plants and nature. Maxie and Violetta part promising to meet every full moon by the tree.

Voice cast

Release

The film was theatrically released in France as Magic! [5]

Reception

The Guardian gave the film a mixed review, stating: "Luckily, the animation has the finesse the story doesn't; competition for Pixar's rhythm and texture on presumably a fraction of the budget". [6]

A review in Telerama criticized the colors and music in the film but found its plot clever. [5] A similar assessment is found in a Spanish review. [7] La Nación however described as "a moving tale about the fear in front of changes". [8]

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