The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Touch of Family-Friendly Preteen Romance
In this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on gathering teeth from sleeping children and placing treasure under their pillows. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He is just slightly more interested in the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who provide metal as payment. However, Van’s interest grows when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the hideous creature he had imagined.
A Forbidden Bond and Shared Threat
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a light sprinkling of young love (though it’s perfectly appropriate for children). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to bring people together. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet each holds biased views about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, prone to taking anything they want, while the goblins are reportedly stupid, foul-smelling, and backward, but are in fact bright and advanced in technology.
Of course, this scenario needs a common enemy to join forces against, and this is duly provided by a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the fairies and goblins, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the viewer group that is beginning to have first crushes, but aren’t yet old enough for whatever 14-year-olds view these days instead of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to be their next all-time fave, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story releases in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
