The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Animated Adventure with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story
In this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to gathering baby teeth of sleeping children and leaving treasure beneath where they sleep. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only a bit more interested in the financial workings behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold in exchange. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all 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 younger kids). The fairy and goblin groups are estranged from each other, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to bring people as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet each holds prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. Fairies are said to be self-centered types, given to taking whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and backward, but are actually bright and technologically advanced.
Of course, this scenario needs a shared foe to join forces against, and this is duly provided by some nasty spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, if not particularly skilled, villains.
Target Audience and Overall Impression
There aren’t all that many animated films aimed at the viewer group that is beginning to have early romances, but aren’t yet old enough for whatever 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.
A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in movie theaters in Scotland starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
