Mae Whitman voices the iconic Tinker Bell in the new DVD Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure.

The Tinker Bell in the current Disney Fairies franchise is feisty but never sassy. The filmmakers have carefully avoided sexualizing her, director Klay Hall tells Sun Media.

“We wanted her to be who she is and not try to contemporize her,” Hall says in a joint interview with producer Sean Lurie. Both men are married. Their wives have produced two sons each — no girls. Yet the men feel protective of Tink. “For being a couple of guys, we are almost prudes!” Hall says. “We wanted to make her look classy and be sweet.”

The iconic character, famous for her explosive, non-speaking role in the 1953 Disney classic, Peter Pan, is now the speaking star of her own movies. Mae Whitman voices the character. The first instalment, Tinker Bell, proved to be a creative success, coming after the Disney-Pixar merger and after Pixar’s creative genius, John Lasseter, took control of both animation studios. The first Tink was revamped into an excellent origins story.

The second in the series is Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, newly released as a single-disc DVD, with decent extras, and separately in an excellent, two-disc combo pack that combines the DVD and Blu-ray with the same bonus materials. The deleted scenes and bloopers are humourous; the making-of info is insightful; and Demi Lovato does a music video.

Lasseter has revitalized direct-to-DVD movies at Disney, making them as high quality as theatrical releases. “He is the renaissance,” Hall says. “He is the new Walt Disney!”

“You couldn’t ask for a nicer, more insightful, easy-going guy to work for and to work with,” says Lurie, who is currently producing the fourth instalment, the winter-themed Tinker Bell: Race Through the Seasons.

Lost Treasure is autumn-themed, taking Tink on a thrilling adventure away from Pixie Hollow to try to repair a broken moonstone that was entrusted to her for a Celtic-like ceremony. Along the way, Tink learns about the value of friendship, especially in relation to pixie dust fairy Terrence (voiced by teen heartthrob Jesse McCartney). Lasseter kept the filmmakers on point.

“John is the logic police,” Hall says of how Lasseter leads the Disney-Pixar braintrust that oversees every animated movie. “He will say: ‘How does this happen? Be careful guys! This has to absolutely make sense.’ ”

“He will get you!” Lurie says with a laugh. “If you don’t have an explanation as to why something is the way it is is, he is great at questioning us.”

“But he is very diplomatic in the way he works,” Hall explains. “He talks it through and then it’s up to you to explain why it is you went in this direction.”

With braintrust approvals, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure turned into an action adventure genre, with comedy. “We wanted to harken back to the classic fairytales that we remember as kids,” says Lurie.

“But we’re a couple of guys with two boys each,” Hall adds. “And we’re in the Tinker Bell world. We know the mythology, we know the world where it currently stands, but I love action adventure. Guys love action adventures. Our boys love action adventure.

“So it seemed a natural. It allowed us to go with a Tink-centric film. It could really be her film and let us find out who she is. And put her in an environment that is really exciting. Then we could give her the human element where she makes mistakes and she takes things for granted and, along this jounrey, she realizes how to right her wrongs.”

“We really tried to put in something for everybody in the family,” Lurie says, “and really tell a story that is relatable to kids as young as five and to adults as old as Klay!”