The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Cartoon Journey with a Touch of Family-Friendly Tween Romance
Throughout this cartoon adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to collecting teeth from slumbering youngsters and placing gold under their pillows. Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He is just slightly more interested in the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. However, Van’s interest grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly creature he had imagined.
An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin communities are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to bring people together. The two species as seen here are remarkably alike, yet each holds prejudiced beliefs about the other. Fairies are said to be self-centered sorts, given to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are in fact intelligent and technologically advanced.
Of course, such a setup needs a shared foe to unite against, and that need is met by a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
There aren’t all that many animated films targeting the kind of audience that is starting to experience early romances, but aren’t yet mature enough for the content teenagers view these days instead of Twilight. If your child is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story releases in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
