I am not a nine-year-old girl, but if I were I would probably love Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure. As I am not a girl, and a few years over nine I can still say for a straight to video movie, it’s not half bad. I never saw the first Tinker Bell movie, so I don’t have that for comparison. After watching Lost Treasure, if I passed Tinker Bell on a movie channel I might just stop to watch it.

In Lost Treasure, emotions are thrown around like a hot potato, the characters are fairly simple and yet I found myself enjoying the world that was created here. The land of the fairies and their traditions and hierarchy was fairly well developed and creative. The overarching message of the film is the importance of friends and while I found it boring and obvious, for the age of girls that this story is speaking to it’s a good one.

The animation, while not the top of the game is quite well done. The animators at Disney obviously know their stuff, so it’s a matter of working within the technology and budget. I continue to prefer traditional animation and I would likely have preferred it here, but the computer animation done here, while not at Pixar level is still sharp and expressive and does make some camera moves much more easily than traditional would’ve allowed. The 1080p really does show off the detail and depth of perception of computer animation that traditional typically does not match to the same degree.

The voice acting is universally well done by a hoard of quality voice actors including Rob Paulsen, Grey Deslile, Jeff Bennett and of course Mae Whitman as Tink and Jesse McCartney as Terence. I just saw an animated movie this week that comes out at the end of the month and it has a BIG star in the lead role. While he did a good job it did not allow me to get lost in the world when I kept connecting the voice to the star rather than the character. Some films, Toy Story for example, that’s not an issue. I don’t watch those thinking “hey, Tom Hanks,” or “Hey, Tim Allen.” But Tinker Bell doesn’t have that issue. These are talented voice actors sometimes playing numerous characters and the average listener wouldn’t know the difference, because it’s about acting, not star power.