A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Touch of Family-Friendly Tween Romance
Throughout this animated adventure for preteens, the fairy community is dedicated to gathering baby teeth of sleeping children and leaving treasure under their pillows. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He is just slightly more curious about the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who supply gold in exchange. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly gnome he expected.
A Forbidden Connection and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains very much suitable for children). The fairy and goblin groups are separated from one another, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to bring people together. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet each holds biased views about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, prone to stealing anything they want, while the goblins are allegedly stupid, foul-smelling, and backward, but are actually bright and advanced in technology.
Naturally, this scenario requires a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met in the form of a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, though not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not old enough for whatever teenagers are watching in lieu of Twilight. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
