The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Tween Love Story
Throughout this cartoon adventure for preteens, the fairy community focuses on gathering teeth from sleeping youngsters and leaving treasure beneath where they sleep. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He is just a bit more interested in the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who supply gold in exchange. However, Van’s interest is piqued when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the ugly gnome he had imagined.
An Unlikely Connection and Shared Threat
The stage is set for an adventure with a light sprinkling of teen romance (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin groups are separated from one another, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. The two species portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet each holds prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. The fairies are said to be entitled types, prone to stealing anything they want, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are actually intelligent and advanced in technology.
Naturally, such a setup requires a common enemy to join forces against, and this is duly provided in the form of a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as quite savage, if not particularly skilled, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is starting to experience first crushes, but aren’t yet old enough for whatever teenagers are watching instead of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, it probably won’t to become their new favorite movie, but it’s a decent choice.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
