The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Animated Journey with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story
In this cartoon journey for preteens, the world of fairies focuses on gathering baby teeth of slumbering youngsters and leaving gold beneath where they sleep. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He’s only slightly more curious about the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the hideous gnome he had imagined.
An Unlikely Connection and Shared Threat
The stage is set for an adventure with a gentle touch of teen romance (though it’s very much suitable for children). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to unite beings together. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain biased views about the other. Fairies are supposed to be self-centered sorts, prone to taking whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and primitive, but are in fact intelligent and advanced in technology.
Naturally, such a setup 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. There’s no beating about the bush about their intentions: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as quite savage, if not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
There aren’t very many children’s animations targeting the viewer group that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not mature enough for whatever 14-year-olds are watching instead of Twilight. 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 arrives in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
