A Tooth Fairy Tale Film Analysis: Animated Adventure with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Preteen Love Story
Throughout this cartoon adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on collecting baby teeth of sleeping youngsters and placing gold beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only a bit more curious about the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. However, Van’s interest is piqued when he catches sight of 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 light sprinkling of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for children). The fairy and goblin communities are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to bring people together. Both groups as seen here are remarkably alike, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. Fairies are said to be entitled sorts, given to taking whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are in fact intelligent and advanced in technology.
Naturally, this scenario needs a shared foe to unite against, and that need is met by a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they want to eat the fairies and goblins, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, though not particularly skilled, villains.
Target Audience and Overall Impression
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 teenagers are watching in lieu of Twilight. 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 releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
