The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Cartoon Journey with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Preteen Love Story
Throughout this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the world of fairies focuses on gathering baby teeth of sleeping youngsters and leaving gold under their pillows. 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 completely understandable. He is just a bit more interested in the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he catches sight of a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be far from the ugly creature he expected.
A Forbidden Connection and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a light sprinkling of teen romance (though it’s very much suitable for younger kids). The fairy and goblin communities are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings together. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. The fairies are supposed to be self-centered sorts, prone to stealing whatever they fancy, 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 shared foe to join forces against, and that need is met in the form of some nasty spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret about their intentions: they want to eat the fairies and goblins, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the viewer group that is starting to experience early romances, but are not old enough for whatever teenagers view these days in lieu of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but it’s a decent choice.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and the rest of the UK from 24 October.
