The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Preteen Romance
In this cartoon journey for preteens, the fairy community focuses on collecting baby teeth of slumbering children and leaving gold under their pillows. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only a bit more curious about the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the ugly creature he had imagined.
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 younger kids). The goblin and fairy groups are separated from one another, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people as one. The two species as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain biased views about the other. Fairies are supposed to be self-centered sorts, prone to taking whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and primitive, but are actually bright and technologically advanced.
Naturally, this scenario needs a shared foe 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 about their intentions: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, though not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
There aren’t all that many animated films aimed at the kind of audience that is starting to experience early romances, but aren’t yet old enough for whatever teenagers are watching instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next favorite movie, but it’s a decent choice.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in movie theaters in Scotland starting October 10 and the rest of the UK from 24 October.
