The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Animated Journey with a Touch of Family-Friendly Tween Romance
In this cartoon adventure for preteens, the fairy community focuses on collecting teeth from sleeping youngsters and leaving gold under their pillows. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He is just slightly more curious about the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who supply gold in exchange. However, Van’s interest grows when he catches sight of a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the hideous creature he expected.
An Unlikely Connection and Shared Threat
The stage is set for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s perfectly appropriate for children). The fairy and goblin communities are separated from one another, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. The two species portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet both maintain biased views about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled types, prone to stealing whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and primitive, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.
Of course, this scenario needs a common enemy to join forces against, and that need is met in the form of some nasty 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 serve as quite savage, if not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
There aren’t very many animated films aimed at the viewer group that is starting to experience first crushes, but aren’t yet old enough for the content 14-year-olds view these days in lieu of Twilight. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story arrives in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
