The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Animated Adventure with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story
Throughout this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on collecting teeth from sleeping children and leaving gold beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He’s only a bit more curious about the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold in exchange. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly creature he expected.
A Forbidden Bond and Shared Threat
The stage is set for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s very much suitable for younger kids). The fairy and goblin groups are separated from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to bring people as one. The two species as seen here are remarkably alike, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, given to stealing whatever they fancy, while goblins are reportedly stupid, smelly, and backward, but are in fact intelligent and advanced in technology.
Of course, such a setup needs a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met in the form of some nasty spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush about their intentions: they want to eat the fairies and goblins, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression
You won’t find very many animated films targeting the kind of audience that is starting to experience first crushes, but are not old enough for the content 14-year-olds are watching instead of popular teen sagas. If your child is in the right age bracket, it probably won’t to be their next favorite movie, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story arrives in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
