The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Animated Journey with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Preteen Romance
In this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the world of fairies focuses on collecting teeth from slumbering children and placing gold under their pillows. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He is just a bit more interested in the financial workings behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who supply gold in exchange. But Van’s curiosity grows when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be far from the hideous gnome he expected.
An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy
The stage is set for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s very much suitable for children). The fairy and goblin communities are estranged from each other, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to bring people as one. Both groups as seen here are remarkably alike, yet each holds biased views about the other. Fairies are said to be entitled sorts, given to stealing anything they want, while goblins are allegedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and backward, but are in fact intelligent and advanced in technology.
Of course, such a setup needs a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met by a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
There aren’t all that many animated films aimed at the kind of audience that is starting to experience early romances, but are not mature enough for the content teenagers are watching instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, 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.
