A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Animated Adventure with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story
In this cartoon adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to gathering baby teeth of slumbering youngsters and placing treasure beneath where they sleep. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He’s only a bit more interested in the financial workings of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. However, Van’s interest grows when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the hideous gnome he had imagined.
A Forbidden Bond and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a light sprinkling of young love (though it’s perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin communities are separated from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to unite beings as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain biased views about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled types, given to taking whatever they fancy, while the goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are actually bright and technologically advanced.
Of course, such a setup needs a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met by some nasty spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, though not particularly skilled, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
You won’t find very many children’s animations aimed at the kind of audience that is starting to experience early romances, but are not old enough for the content teenagers are watching instead of Twilight. If your child falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next all-time fave, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story arrives in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and the rest of the UK from 24 October.
