A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story
In this cartoon journey for preteens, the fairy community is dedicated to gathering teeth from sleeping children and placing treasure under their pillows. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He is just slightly more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who provide metal in exchange. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the hideous gnome he had imagined.
An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of teen romance (though it’s perfectly appropriate for children). The goblin and fairy groups are estranged from one another, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people as one. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. Fairies are said to be self-centered sorts, prone to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are in fact intelligent and technologically advanced.
Naturally, this scenario needs a shared foe to join forces against, and that need is met by a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the fairies and goblins, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, though not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
You won’t find very many children’s animations aimed at the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not mature enough for the content teenagers view these days in lieu of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
