Secretof the Wings (originally titled as Tinker Bell and the Mysterious Winter Woods or alternatively Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings) is a 2012 American animated fantasy film, and the fourth installment in the Disney Fairies franchise, produced by Disneytoon Studios. It revolves around Tinker Bell, a fairy character created by J. M. Barrie in his 1904 play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, and featured in subsequent adaptations, especially in Disney's animated works, and how she ventures to the Winter Woods and meets her twin sister, Periwinkle, who is a frost fairy. The film was directed by Peggy Holmes and co-directed by Bobs Gannaway.[4][5] Starring the voices of Mae Whitman, Lucy Liu, Megan Hilty, Raven-Symon and Angela Bartys, it also features new cast members who include Matt Lanter, Timothy Dalton, Lucy Hale and Debby Ryan, while Anjelica Huston narrates.
Tucking her wings in a coat, Tinker Bell hides in a shipment of snowflake baskets. She gets picked up by a novice Owl who crash lands in the Winter Woods, and the book falls out of her bag. The book is found by Lord Milori, who has it delivered to the Keeper. Tink secretly follows to the library and spots the Keeper, Dewey. Periwinkle, another winter fairy rushes into the room; her wings sparkle like Tink's. The two fairies have actually been born from the same laugh, making them sisters.
Tink and Periwinkle are told, by Queen Clarion and Lord Milori respectively, the story of two fairies who fell in love, one from the warm seasons, the other from the Winter Woods. As their romance grew, one of them crossed the border, resulting in them breaking a wing; a damage that there was no known cure for. After this, Queen Clarion declared the separation of the warm fairies from the winter fairies in order to prevent any similar incidents from happening again.
Receiving news of an emergency, Tink and the Queen fly back to the border and find that the snow-maker has been collecting ice from the stream, generating snow continuously and causing a blizzard. Tink and her friends free the snow-maker, but a freeze that will engulf Pixie Hollow begins to spread, and will eventually reach the Pixie Dust tree. Trying to think of what to do, Tink notices that a Periwinkle flower that Peri had covered in frost is still alive and flies to the Winter Woods. As she approaches Peri and her friends, Tink's wings freeze and she crash lands. Peri's friends explain that frost keeps the warm air inside like a blanket and they return to the pixie dust tree to cover it in frost. The three fairies are soon joined by Lord Milori who brings reinforcements, and all the winter fairies work to frost as much of the warm seasons as possible. As the freeze approaches, Lord Milori warns the warm fairies to take cover, including the Queen whom he gives his cape, revealing one of his wings is broken.
The freeze eventually subsides. The Pixie Dust Tree is safe, and all the fairies celebrate. However, Tink reveals that she broke a wing while flying to the woods earlier. As the sisters say goodbye, Tink and Peri's wings touch and the broken wing heals. Queen Clarion and Lord Milori kiss, revealing themselves as the lovers from the story. The warm fairies are able to cross over into the border by having their wings frosted and the two sisters never have to be apart again.
The film was given a limited theatre release in the United States between August 31, 2012, and September 13, 2012.[6] It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 23, 2012.[7] It was the first film in the Disney Fairies franchise that was released in 3D.[8] The Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD releases also include the short film Pixie Hollow Games as a "Bonus Adventure".[9]
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated it 2/5 stars and called it "machine-tooled for the tweenie sleepover market".[11] Mark Adams of Screen Daily suggested that young children may enjoy it though they are unlikely to be impressed.[12]
Nonetheless, 'Harvest' might be the strongest episode so far. We'd already made the effort to accept the series' nature, flaws and all, and within those parameters, the fifth chapter is an entertaining one which didn't make us roll our eyes too hard. There's no scene here as head-scratching as Gravik murdering Talos among soldiers who have no reaction whatsoever to that, nor the villain getting shot in the head. In fact, the beats of action in episode 5 are surprisingly solid and bloody. As for the character work, Emilia Clarke finally finds something half-compelling to work with.
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With all the racial commentary peppered throughout the series, there's an interesting angle to explore here: hateful men leading all of their people to war as the only way to fix past injustices and create a better future. But, of course, it's all surface-level. Despite the writers' intentions, 99% of the time you can only get so far within the limitations of the Disney-Marvel box. We've seen it happen before with the Black Panther movies and their commentary on imperialism and the tensions with the "outside world," only to end up reaching bafflingly conservative resolutions.
Elsewhere, Nick Fury is trying to warn a wounded and seemingly unconscious President about fake Rhodey and the Skrull threat. He also jumps as soon as he can on the mole when he shows up, but that's not the right place nor situation. In this episode, we also learn about why they haven't killed Fury after Varra's failure: they need to find the Harvest (DNA samples from the Avengers) as soon as possible, but they're struggling and it appears that only Fury can bring it to them. No issues at the moment, but this tells us Gravik would've been kind of screwed had Varra gone through with her assignment.
In London, Sonya Falsworth has done all the necessary homework to effectively start cleaning house on British soil, and so she goes on a crusade to remove Skrulls loyal to Gravik from the equation. Again, Olivia Colman's natural comedy chops work great in tandem with her character's crude nature, and she continues to deliver what's by far one of the funniest MCU performances in recent memory.
Folks at New Skrullos aren't happy with Gravik either, and a group of soldiers tries to take him out following Pagon's murder. It's all working out just fine until his powers kick in and he wrecks everyone. How long can he keep his followers together? It seems like, right now, he's the biggest killer of Skrulls around. As someone short on resources, being a bully is getting him nowhere.
We're also due for a chat between Fury and G'iah after Talos' death, and it's a good one for Emilia Clarke's character, who might finally have something meaningful to do, even if it's just making her father proud. Clarke does really well with doubtful and vulnerable characters, and you can tell she's more comfortable here. This seeps into her next scene, where she meets with Varra in order to give Talos a proper (albeit rushed) funeral. We only wish we could've learned a bit more about Skrull culture in this show.
Oh, by the way, fake Rhodey has told the world Fury was responsible for Maria Hill's death, so travelling around the globe is a bit harder now. No problem, however, as he's smuggled to Finland by Rick Mason, a cheery bloke we first met in Black Widow. No, we didn't remember him either. No offense to O.T. Fagbenle.
Meanwhile, fake Rhodey (sorry, we like calling him that) is talking the President into bombing New Skrullos to the ground because Gravik's train of thought has totally gone off the rails now. Baiting the U.S. into launching an attack on Russian soil while also putting innocent Skrull lives at stake will force Fury into meeting with and giving him what he wants: the Harvest. Or at least that's the plan. Not even fake Rhodey seems to be fully on board with it.
The show hadn't forgotten about the loose end that was Varra refusing to kill Fury. And so, a group of Gravik's hitmen break into her house. But there's a slight miscalculation: G'iah is there (and she knows how to kick ass) and Varra had been trained for years by Fury. The following action scene isn't especially impressive, but there's a refreshing punch and clarity to it, plus those goons bleed a lot. After countless MCU installments in which gun violence is extremely tame, seeing blood splatters all over the place was kinda shocking. The studio is letting fans know they will no longer shy away from harsher violence where needed (i.e., Blade and Deadpool 3, for starters).
Nick Fury gets to Finland, and we're treated to a small Mission: Impossible-ish moment where he uses the Black Widow veil and a wig to mask himself in order to (illegally) enter the country. There's more fun spy stuff in episode 5, but they're shy efforts and we can't help but imagine a more inventive version of this show that doubled down on those elements and created entire sequences around them.
The final stretch has Fury meeting with Falsworth (100% a good lady now) and visiting a graveyard in the Finnish countryside. After a short chat about why he refuses to call in his superhero friends to help clean this mess (he makes some good points), he shares a few poignant words with his ally and opens up a secret cache. He's got plenty of fake grave-caches around, and this one's special because he and Varra honeymooned in Finland, plus he stored there a sample of what Gravik wants.
This is yet another indication the former SHIELD director is actually a warm and kind person, he just can't open himself to anyone in his line of work. Looking back at the heroes' darkest moments in past MCU entries, he was always great with inspiring discourses that highlighted what made humans special, so it's rewarding to learn he doesn't consider himself to be an outlier.
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