A Tooth Fairy Tale Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Tween Love Story
Throughout this cartoon adventure for preteens, the world of fairies focuses on collecting baby teeth of sleeping youngsters and placing treasure beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He’s only slightly more curious about the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the hideous creature he had imagined.
An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy
The stage is set for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s perfectly appropriate for children). The fairy and goblin groups are separated from each other, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to bring people together. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet each holds biased views about the opposite side. Fairies are supposed to be entitled types, prone to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and primitive, but are actually intelligent and advanced in technology.
Of course, such a setup requires a common enemy 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 with these guys: they want to eat the fairies and goblins, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, though not particularly skilled, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression
You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is starting to experience first crushes, but are not mature enough for the content teenagers are watching instead of Twilight. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
