The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Cartoon Journey with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story
Throughout this animated journey for preteens, the world of fairies is dedicated to collecting teeth from sleeping children and placing treasure under their pillows. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only slightly more curious about the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who provide metal as payment. However, Van’s interest grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the hideous creature he expected.
A Forbidden Connection and Shared Threat
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains very much suitable for younger kids). The goblin and fairy communities are separated from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to unite beings together. The two species portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet each holds biased views about the opposite side. The fairies are said to be entitled types, prone to taking anything they want, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and primitive, but are actually intelligent and technologically advanced.
Naturally, such a setup requires a shared foe to join forces against, and this is duly provided in the form of a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the fairies and goblins, and they make for quite savage, though not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
You won’t find very many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is starting to experience first crushes, but are not old enough for whatever 14-year-olds are watching in lieu of Twilight. If your child falls into this age group, it probably won’t to become their new favorite movie, but it’s a decent choice.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
