The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Cartoon Adventure with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Preteen Love Story
Throughout this animated journey for preteens, the fairy community focuses on collecting teeth from sleeping children and placing treasure beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He’s only a bit more curious about the financial workings behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the hideous gnome he had imagined.
An Unlikely Connection and Shared Threat
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s very much suitable for younger kids). The fairy and goblin communities are separated from one another, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. Both groups as seen here are remarkably alike, yet both maintain biased views about the other. Fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, given to stealing whatever they fancy, while goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.
Naturally, such a setup needs a shared foe to join forces against, and that need is met by a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not particularly skilled, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many children’s animations aimed at the viewer group that is beginning to have early romances, but are not mature enough for whatever teenagers view these days in lieu of popular teen sagas. If your child is in the right age bracket, it probably won’t to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in movie theaters in Scotland starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
