The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Animated Adventure with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Tween Love Story
In this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the world of fairies focuses on gathering baby teeth of slumbering youngsters and leaving treasure under their pillows. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He is just slightly more interested in the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. However, Van’s interest grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be far from the ugly gnome he expected.
An Unlikely Bond and Shared Threat
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The goblin and fairy groups are separated from one another, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to bring people together. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet each holds biased views about the opposite side. The fairies are said to be entitled types, prone to taking whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and primitive, but are actually intelligent and advanced in technology.
Of course, this scenario requires a shared foe to unite against, and this is duly provided by some nasty spiders, voiced 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 fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
There aren’t very many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not old enough for the content teenagers are watching in lieu of Twilight. If your child falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next all-time fave, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and the rest of the UK from 24 October.
