A Tooth Fairy Tale Film Analysis: Animated Adventure with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Tween Love Story
Throughout this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on gathering teeth from sleeping youngsters and placing gold beneath where they sleep. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He’s only slightly more curious about the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold 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 expected.
A Forbidden Bond and Shared Threat
The stage is set for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of teen romance (even though it remains very much suitable for younger kids). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. Fairies are said to be entitled sorts, given to taking anything they want, while the goblins are reportedly stupid, smelly, and primitive, but are actually bright and advanced in technology.
Naturally, this scenario requires a shared foe to join forces against, and that need is met by a group of vicious spiders, with voices 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 make for fairly bloodthirsty, if not particularly skilled, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
There aren’t very many children’s animations aimed at the kind of audience that is beginning to have early romances, but are not old enough for the content 14-year-olds view these days in lieu of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, it probably won’t to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story releases in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
