A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Cartoon Journey with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Tween Romance
In this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to gathering baby teeth of sleeping youngsters and placing gold under their pillows. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He’s only a bit more interested in the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the ugly creature he expected.
An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of young love (though it’s perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin groups are separated from one another, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to bring people together. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. Fairies are said to be entitled sorts, given to taking anything they want, while the goblins are reportedly stupid, smelly, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.
Naturally, this scenario needs a shared foe to unite against, and that need is met in the form of some nasty spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret about their intentions: they aim to devour the fairies and goblins, and they make for quite savage, if not particularly skilled, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but aren’t yet old enough for whatever 14-year-olds view these days in lieu of Twilight. If your child falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next all-time fave, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.