The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Animated Journey with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story
In this animated journey for preteens, the world of fairies focuses on collecting teeth from slumbering children and leaving treasure beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He is just a bit more interested in the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the ugly creature he had imagined.
An Unlikely Connection and Shared Threat
The stage is set for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains very much suitable for children). The fairy and goblin groups are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to unite beings as one. Both groups as seen here are remarkably alike, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. Fairies are supposed to be self-centered types, prone to taking whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly stupid, foul-smelling, and backward, but are actually bright and technologically advanced.
Naturally, this scenario needs a shared foe to join forces against, and this is duly provided in the form of a group of vicious 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, though not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
You won’t find very many children’s animations aimed at the viewer group that is starting to experience early romances, but aren’t yet mature enough for the content teenagers view these days instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to become their new favorite movie, but it’s a decent choice.
The Tooth Fairy Story releases in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
