The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Animated Adventure with a Touch of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story
Throughout this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the world of fairies is dedicated to collecting teeth from slumbering youngsters and leaving treasure under their pillows. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He is just a bit more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who provide metal in exchange. However, Van’s interest is piqued when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the ugly gnome he had imagined.
A Forbidden Connection and Shared Threat
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of young love (though it’s very much suitable for younger kids). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from each other, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to bring people together. The two species portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet each holds prejudiced beliefs about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, prone to taking anything they want, while goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and primitive, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.
Naturally, this scenario needs a common enemy to unite against, and this is duly provided by a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, though not particularly skilled, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
There aren’t very many children’s animations targeting the viewer group that is starting to experience early romances, but are not old enough for the content 14-year-olds are watching instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, it probably won’t to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story arrives in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
