A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Tween Love Story
Throughout this cartoon adventure for preteens, the fairy community focuses on collecting baby teeth of slumbering youngsters 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 sentiment that’s completely understandable. He’s only a bit more curious about the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the hideous gnome he had imagined.
An Unlikely Bond and Shared Threat
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of teen romance (though it’s very much suitable for children). The goblin and fairy communities are separated from each other, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings together. The two species portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet each holds biased views about the other. Fairies are supposed to be self-centered types, prone to taking anything they want, while goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.
Naturally, such a setup needs a common enemy to join forces 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 aim to devour the fairies and goblins, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, if not particularly skilled, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
There aren’t all that many animated films aimed at the viewer group 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 favorite movie, but it’s a decent choice.
A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.