A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Animated Journey with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Tween Love Story
Throughout this animated journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on collecting teeth from sleeping children and placing gold under their pillows. Board-riding teenage rebel 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 is just slightly more interested in the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. However, Van’s interest grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the hideous creature he expected.
A Forbidden Bond and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s very much suitable for children). The fairy and goblin communities are estranged from one another, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings together. The two species portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. Fairies are supposed to be self-centered types, given to stealing whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and backward, but are actually bright 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. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they make for quite savage, though not particularly skilled, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression
There aren’t all that many animated films targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have early romances, but are not old enough for the content 14-year-olds are watching instead of Twilight. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to be their next favorite movie, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and the rest of the UK from 24 October.