Fairly (2015)

Fairly is a 2015 American fantasy computer-animated live-action comedy film directed by Rob letterman, based on the book written and created by Chris Van Allsburg of the same name author of the 1981 children's book Jumanji. It is a standalone spin-off of the 1995 film Jumanji and the 2005 film Zilo A Space Robot Adventure and the third installment of the Jumanji franchise. The film stars Rainn Wilson, Jillian Bell, Calliey McClincy, Gabriel Batman, Emilia Clarke, and Emily Blunt.

The film follows two young kids who move from there loving home in Ohio and move to New York City who are trying to fit in, but the young girl finds a board game titled Fairly that lets out all kinds of fairy tale characters to life and have to finish the game to send everything back. The film was released in theaters in the United States on November 16, 2015 by Columbia Pictures, the film received mostly positive reviews by critics, and was a success at the box office.

Synopsis
A young girl named Molly Howard (Calliey McClincy) comes very edgy about moving from Ohio to New York City with new whole new people, She goes to a whole new school trying to make friends and gets a very nice and mysterious welcome with her new School teacher Mr. Barns Aka John (Rainn Wilson). She finds a mysterious board game in a shipwreck at a beach and takes it home where she is looked after by her Brother Caleb (Gabriel Bateman) and in her house takes her first roll and sets out Snow White her self (Emilia Clarke) who is very curious about the real world and has Molly show her what the real world can be like, but accidently lets out an Evil Queen (Emily Blunt) and lets out all kinds of fairytales characters into the City. Molly must team up with Mr. Barns, her brother Caleb (Gabriel Bateman), and their Aunt Lorraine (Jillian Bell) to finish the game quickly before their adventure that might not lead a happily ever after.

Plot
The film begins with Molly (Calliey McClincy) as a little baby, and her parent's give her a little snow white plushie and the film has a whole coming of age sequence with Molly growing up loving fairy tale character's as a young child with her father and telling her bedtime stories, puppet shows, and school plays that molly was always in, and who loves to Ice skate with her family especially with best dad ever, and things in her life couldn't get better. Until her dad passes away when Molly was 8 and haven't been dealing with him not being around, but still has her brother Caleb (Gabriel Bateman) and her mother Gale (Amy Ryan) to look out for her and have to move to New York cause the mom got a new job to freshen up.

Molly, Caleb and their mother go on a long drive form Ohio over to New York and stop by a moved out neighborhood house in the city, which leaves Molly concerned and not into it like his brother and have look around inside has Molly look at his mother with sigh that makes her run upstairs to see her room, and Gale walks upstairs to check on Molly laying on her bed look all drummy and Gale tries to cheer her up by telling her about what her father used to be like when they first met that makes Molly chuckle with a smile that her father used to be a very funny person. Caleb stands behind the door curious what their talking about and start talking her mean old school principle back in Ohio and walks down stairs.

Gale starts meting up with the taxi driver (Chris Parnell) and meets up with a man named David (Dominic West) and her daughter walking to school and both kinda start talking about their hobbies where he has nothing planned other than keeping an eye on the teenage kids hitting baseballs in random elders houses, filling up the house furniture and and house items while putting on some old-school music and when finished cuts to Molly and Caleb in Caleb's decorated room and Molly starts deciding what board game she and Caleb should play and Caleb refuses saying that Molly always cheats at board games and Molly starts playing with some action figures and breaks one and Caleb gets angry and chases Molly threw the house and downstairs bumps into a shelf and breaks a fancy vase, and the mother hears and runs over and sees the vase on the floor broken and starts questioning who did it and Molly and Caleb point at each other saying they did it and cuts over with the two of them at a couch all down and bored with the mother says she's gonna be at job interview for a day or two cause of dedicated she is to this job Molly worries she's gonna leave them all alone in their new house, and says she wants both of them to start getting along with each other and calls their Aunt Lorraine (Jillian Bell) to look after them.

Lorraine brings Molly and Caleb over to their new school for their open house where they are greeted by so many kids and teachers and meets a young girl named Nina (Abby James Witherspoon) who was the daughter of the guy Gale was talking to and want's to be Molly's best friend and show her around the school but Molly runs and pushes her away so quickly, when Molly gets over to her class she meets a overly nice new coming teacher named Mr. Barns (Rainn Wilson) who is fasciately amazed by her drawings and wonders if he could interduce her to a famous artist that is visiting the elementary school soon and gives her a bit of confidence.

Molly, Caleb and Aunt Lorraine start driving home from the open house and stop by for some ice cream when Molly spots an antique store near by and goes to check it out, there she meets an old man who is the store manager who tells Molly she can help herself in anything in the basement of the store and checks out the many things that awaits her inside by gets spooked out by a creepy humming sound and runs further and further into the basement and locks herself into and dusty and mysterious room that is unknown and comes across an old antique board game titled "Fairly A Fairy Tale Adventure" She than takes it home with Caleb and Lorraine and get back to their neighborhood house and Caleb than proceeds to watch TV and Molly shows him the board game she found, but Caleb doesn't seem interested and claims it as a game for babies but Molly still thinks it's cool and folds it open and see's the game's amazing design and opens up some game tokens that shoot across the game magically when Lorraine calls Molly for the living room for help and puts the game under the dinning table and runs over to help her aunt and the game starts make some little mystical jingles when it's left alone.

Cast

 * Calliey McClincy as Molly Howard
 * Gabriel Bateman as Caleb Howard
 * Rainn Wilson as Jonathan Barns
 * Jillian Bell as Lorraine Howard
 * Amy Ryan as Gale Howard (Molly and Caleb Howard)
 * Emilia Clarke as Snow White
 * Emily Blunt as The Evil Queen/Molly's School Principle
 * Steve Carell as Pinocchio, The Gingerbread Boy, and the ants.
 * Carol Kane as the Witch (Hansel and Gretel)
 * Madeleine Mcgraw as Little Red Riding Hood
 * Brandon Jamar as Jack (Jack and the Beanstalk)
 * Amiah Miller as Goldilocks (Goldilocks and the three bears)
 * Bella Lotz as Little Miss Muffet
 * Chris Hemsworth as The Prince (Cinderella's Prince)
 * Matt Damon as The Woodsman
 * Ashely Liao as Sleeping Beauty
 * Talitha Bateman as "The Girl who Spun the Gold" (Rumpelstiltskin)
 * Ben Mendelsohn as Van Butler (The British Hunter)
 * Aiden Flowers as "The Boy who Cried Wolf"
 * TBA as The Magic Mirror
 * Simon Pegg as Humpty Dumpty
 * Chris Tucker as New York Chief Police Officer Sam
 * Chris Parnell as The Taxi driver
 * Audrey Whitby as Stacy Mor (the Uber Driver)
 * TBA as Harry Howard (Molly and Caleb's father)
 * Dominic West as David James (Molly's and Caleb's stepfather)
 * Abby James Witherspoon as Nina James (Molly's and Caleb stepsister)

Cameo

 * Chris Van Allsberg as the (School History Teacher)

Production
The film was originally was going to be made in 2007 but was staled because it was dragged by director to director and couldn't find a correct filmmaker to take it on until Rob Letterman took it by 2013 and started production in 2014.

In September 2013, it was reported that Rainn Wilson was in talks to "play a school history teacher who eventually becomes one of the four players of the Fairly.

It was announced in February 2014 that Callie McClincy had been cast as Molly Howard the littlest sister from the book and Gabriel Bateman has been cast Caleb Howard the older brother from the book. On February 26, 2014, it was announced that the film would be released on March 23, 2016. On April 4, 2014, it was announced that Amy Ryan and Jillian Bell had joined the cast as the Howard's mother and aunt respectively. On April 10, 2014, Chris Parnell joined the cast as the new york taxi driver. On April 28, 2014, joined the cast. On May 1, 2014, the film's release date was moved up to August 7, 2015. Chris Van Allsburg stated on May 20, 2014, that he was going to make a cameo appearance in the film.

San Diego Comic-Con International
The film was promoted at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International where Rob Letterman meets up with Rainn Wilson, Emilia Clarke and Emily Blunt  start talking about the fun of the film and on the big screen they start interacting with Pinocchio and the Gingerbread Boy (both voiced by Steve Carell) who star bring some puns and jokes over to comic con and start talking about the fun of the film and got to show a full look at to what the board game will look like in the movie.

Trivia

 * This Film was gonna be consider a direct sequel to the 1995 film Jumanji but Rob Letterman wanted the film separate from the film because he wasn't a big fan of the film adaptation of Jumanji.
 * Fairly (2015) and Zilo (2005) are both considered in the same universe as Jumanji.
 * The film was actually filmed in New York City.
 * Emilia Clarke actully had to wear a latex head makeup to but on her snow white wig for the movie.
 * Emily Blunt actually played both The Evil Queen and Molly's old school principle to symbolize Molly's fear of growing up.
 * Steve Carell voiced both Pinocchio and the Gingerbread Boy.
 * Steve Carrel voiced the little ants that Caleb rolled.
 * The board game used in the movie was inspired by the Jumanji game board and took some unique game ideas to it.
 * Chris Hemsworth actually got some tips from Chris Pines on how to act more princely.
 * Fairly is considered to be in the board game cinematic universe.
 * Talitha Bateman actually had to learn to speak germen for the movie for the scenes she was in.
 * The 2015 Fairly film was than turn into a video game for the PS4 two years later as a story driven game.
 * Rob Letterman described the film as him making a live action Shrek movie.
 * A cameo of Snow White was featured in the film with the seven dwarfs singing Heigh-Ho.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the movie was composed by John Debney who also composed several other films including Zilo: A Space Robot Adventure (2005) and Ant bully (2006).

Additional Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the film, featuring original music composed by John Debney, was released on CD on November 23, 2015, by Sony Classical Records. The digital version was released by Madison Gate Records the week before.

Songs featured in the film

 * "Jingles Bells" - Bobby Helms
 * "Walking on Sunshine" - Katrina And The Waves
 * "Style" - Taylor Swift

Future
A prequel film titled Fairly: Game of Origins, came out in 2021 that takes place before the event's of the first movie. And Tom Hanks is set to star in the prequel. It takes place where John Barn's Grandfather was playing the game when he was a boy.