A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Animated Journey with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story
In this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to gathering baby teeth of sleeping youngsters and placing treasure beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only a bit more curious about the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who supply gold in exchange. However, Van’s interest grows when he catches sight of a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the hideous creature he had imagined.
An Unlikely Bond and Common Enemy
The stage is set for an adventure with a gentle touch of teen romance (even though it remains very much suitable for children). The goblin and fairy communities are separated from one another, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people as one. Both groups as seen here are remarkably alike, yet each holds biased views about the other. The fairies are said to be self-centered types, given to taking anything they want, while goblins are reportedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and primitive, but are in fact intelligent and advanced in technology.
Of course, 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 about their intentions: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they make for quite savage, though not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression
There aren’t all that many children’s animations aimed at the kind of audience that is starting to experience first crushes, but aren’t yet old enough for the content 14-year-olds view these days in lieu of Twilight. Should your youngster 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 starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
