The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Animated Adventure with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Tween Love Story
Throughout this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on collecting baby teeth of sleeping children and leaving gold beneath where they sleep. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He’s only slightly 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 spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the hideous gnome he had imagined.
An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin groups are estranged from one another, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to unite beings together. The two species portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. The fairies are said to be entitled sorts, given to taking anything they want, while goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and primitive, but are actually intelligent and technologically advanced.
Naturally, such a setup requires a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met in the form of a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush about their intentions: they aim to devour the fairies and goblins, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
You won’t find very many animated films aimed at the kind of audience that is starting to experience early romances, but aren’t yet mature enough for the content 14-year-olds view these days instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in movie theaters in Scotland starting October 10 and the rest of the UK from 24 October.
