A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Cartoon Journey with a Touch of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story
In this animated journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to collecting teeth from slumbering 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 sentiment that’s completely understandable. He is just a bit more interested in the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth 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 ugly creature he expected.
An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a light sprinkling of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate 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. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain biased views about the opposite side. The fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, prone to taking anything they want, while the goblins are reportedly stupid, foul-smelling, and backward, but are actually bright and advanced in technology.
Of course, this scenario needs a shared foe to join forces against, and that need is met by a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they make for quite savage, though not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not old enough for whatever teenagers are watching in lieu of Twilight. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but it’s a decent choice.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
