The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Tween Romance
Throughout this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the world of fairies is dedicated to gathering teeth from sleeping children and placing gold under their pillows. Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He is just a bit more curious about the financial workings behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. However, Van’s interest grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the ugly gnome he had imagined.
A Forbidden Bond and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of teen romance (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for children). The goblin and fairy groups are estranged from one another, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to unite beings together. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain biased views about the other. Fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, given to taking anything they want, while the goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and primitive, but are in fact intelligent and advanced in technology.
Of course, this scenario requires a shared foe to join forces 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 fairies and goblins, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not particularly skilled, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
There aren’t very many animated films targeting the viewer group that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not mature enough for the content 14-year-olds view these days in lieu of Twilight. If your child is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to be their next favorite movie, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
