The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Animated Journey with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Preteen Love Story
Throughout this animated journey for preteens, the world of fairies focuses on gathering teeth from slumbering youngsters and leaving gold under their pillows. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only slightly more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who provide metal in exchange. But Van’s curiosity grows when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the ugly creature he had imagined.
A Forbidden Bond and Shared Threat
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a light sprinkling of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for children). The goblin and fairy groups are separated from each other, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. The two species portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet each holds biased views about the other. Fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, prone to stealing whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are in fact bright and advanced in technology.
Naturally, such a setup needs a common enemy to join forces against, and this is duly provided by a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush about their intentions: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, though not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many children’s animations aimed at the viewer group that is beginning to have early romances, but aren’t yet mature enough for the content teenagers are watching instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story arrives in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
