The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Touch of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story
Throughout this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on collecting teeth from sleeping youngsters and leaving gold beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He is just slightly more curious about the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who supply gold in exchange. However, Van’s interest is piqued when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly gnome he expected.
A Forbidden Connection and Common Enemy
The stage is set for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s 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 together. The two species as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain biased views about the other. Fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, prone to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly stupid, foul-smelling, and primitive, but are actually intelligent and technologically advanced.
Of course, this scenario needs a shared foe to unite against, and this is duly provided 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 goblins and fairies, and they make for quite savage, if not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts
There aren’t very many children’s animations aimed at the viewer group that is beginning to have early romances, but aren’t yet mature enough for the content teenagers are watching in lieu of popular teen sagas. If your child falls into this age group, it probably won’t to become their new all-time fave, 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.
