The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Animated Adventure with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Preteen Love Story
Throughout this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to collecting teeth from slumbering youngsters and leaving gold under their pillows. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He’s only a bit more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who provide metal in exchange. But Van’s curiosity grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the hideous creature he expected.
A Forbidden Connection and Shared Threat
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin communities are estranged from one another, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. The fairies are said to be entitled types, given to taking anything they want, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are actually intelligent and advanced in technology.
Of course, such a setup 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 make for fairly bloodthirsty, if not particularly skilled, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but aren’t yet mature enough for the content teenagers view these days in lieu of popular teen sagas. If your child falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next all-time fave, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in movie theaters in Scotland starting October 10 and the rest of the UK from 24 October.
