A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Animated Adventure with a Touch of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story
Throughout this cartoon journey for preteens, the fairy community is dedicated to collecting baby teeth of sleeping youngsters and placing treasure under their pillows. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He is just a bit more curious about the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the hideous creature he expected.
An Unlikely Connection and Shared Threat
The stage is set for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of young love (though it’s very much suitable for younger kids). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from one another, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet each holds biased views about the opposite side. The fairies are supposed to be self-centered sorts, prone to taking whatever they fancy, while the goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.
Of course, this scenario requires a shared foe to unite against, and this is duly provided by some nasty spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they aim to devour the fairies and goblins, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, though not particularly skilled, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
You won’t find very many animated films targeting the viewer group that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not mature enough for whatever 14-year-olds view these days instead of popular teen sagas. If your child falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next all-time fave, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
