The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Touch of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story
In this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to collecting baby teeth of slumbering youngsters and leaving gold beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He is just slightly more interested in the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who provide metal in exchange. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly creature he expected.
An Unlikely Bond and Shared Threat
The stage is set for an adventure with a light sprinkling of teen romance (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for children). The fairy and goblin communities are separated from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to bring people as one. The two species portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. The fairies are said to be self-centered types, prone to taking anything they want, while the goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.
Naturally, such a setup needs a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met by some nasty spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush about their intentions: they want to eat the fairies and goblins, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not particularly skilled, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many animated films targeting the kind of audience that is starting to experience first crushes, but are not mature enough for the content teenagers view these days instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next all-time fave, but it’s a decent choice.
The Tooth Fairy Story arrives in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
