The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Cartoon Adventure with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Tween Romance
In this animated adventure for preteens, the world of fairies is dedicated to collecting baby teeth of slumbering children and leaving gold under their pillows. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He’s only a bit more curious about the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. However, Van’s interest grows when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly gnome he expected.
A Forbidden Connection and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of teen romance (even though it remains very much suitable for younger kids). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from each other, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet each holds prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. Fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, prone to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.
Of course, this scenario needs a shared foe to unite 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 goblins and fairies, and they make for quite savage, if not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
There aren’t very many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but aren’t yet old 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 become their new 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 from 24 October.
