A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Touch of Family-Friendly Preteen Romance
Throughout this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to gathering teeth from slumbering youngsters and placing gold under their pillows. Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He is just slightly more interested in the financial workings behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he catches sight of a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be far from the hideous creature he expected.
An Unlikely Connection and Shared Threat
The stage is set for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of teen romance (though it’s very much suitable for children). The fairy and goblin communities are estranged from one another, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to bring people together. The two species as seen here are remarkably alike, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. The fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, given to stealing anything they want, while goblins are reportedly stupid, 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 some nasty spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression
There aren’t very many children’s animations aimed at the viewer group that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not old enough for the content 14-year-olds are watching in lieu of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to be their next favorite movie, but it’s a decent choice.
A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
