A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Tween Romance
In this animated adventure for preteens, the world of fairies is dedicated to collecting teeth from sleeping youngsters and leaving treasure under their pillows. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only slightly more interested in the financial workings of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who provide metal in exchange. But Van’s curiosity grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be far from the hideous creature he expected.
An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of teen romance (even though it remains very much suitable for children). The goblin and fairy groups are estranged from one another, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to unite beings together. The two species as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain biased views about the opposite side. Fairies are supposed to be self-centered types, given to stealing anything they want, while the goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are actually intelligent and advanced in technology.
Of course, this scenario requires a shared foe 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 about their intentions: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they serve as quite savage, if not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many children’s animations aimed at the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not mature enough for whatever 14-year-olds are watching instead of Twilight. Should your youngster falls into this age group, it probably won’t to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
