The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Cartoon Journey with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story
In this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to collecting teeth from sleeping children and placing treasure beneath where they sleep. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He is just a bit more interested in the financial workings behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he catches sight of a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the hideous gnome he had imagined.
A Forbidden Bond and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of teen romance (though it’s perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from one another, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people as one. Both groups as seen here are remarkably alike, yet each holds biased views about the other. Fairies are said to be self-centered types, prone to taking anything they want, while goblins are allegedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and primitive, but are actually intelligent and technologically advanced.
Naturally, such a setup needs a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met in the form of 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 serve as quite savage, though not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
There aren’t very many animated films aimed at the viewer group that is starting to experience early romances, but aren’t yet old enough for the content teenagers view these days instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
