The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Cartoon Journey with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Preteen Love Story

Throughout this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the world of fairies is dedicated to gathering baby teeth of slumbering youngsters and placing treasure beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only a bit more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold in exchange. However, Van’s interest is piqued when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be far from the ugly gnome he had imagined.

A Forbidden Connection and Shared Threat

Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of teen romance (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin groups are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to unite beings together. The two species portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet each holds biased views about the opposite side. The fairies are said to be entitled sorts, given to taking whatever they fancy, while goblins are reportedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.

Naturally, this scenario needs a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met in the form of some nasty spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush about their intentions: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, though not especially competent, villains.

Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts

You won’t find very many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have early romances, but are not old enough for the content teenagers view these days instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster 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 from 10 October and the rest of the UK from 24 October.