The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Animated Adventure with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story
In this animated journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to gathering baby teeth of sleeping children and placing gold beneath where they sleep. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He is just slightly more interested in the financial workings behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who provide metal in exchange. But Van’s curiosity grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be far from the ugly creature he expected.
An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of teen romance (though it’s very much suitable for children). The fairy and goblin groups are estranged from one another, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to bring people as one. The two species portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled types, prone to stealing whatever they fancy, while goblins are reportedly stupid, foul-smelling, and primitive, but are in fact bright and advanced in technology.
Naturally, such a setup requires a common enemy to unite against, and this is duly provided by a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret about their intentions: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as quite savage, if not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression
You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the viewer group that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not old enough for the content 14-year-olds view these days in lieu of Twilight. If your child 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 releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
