A Tooth Fairy Tale Film Analysis: Cartoon Adventure with a Touch of Family-Friendly Preteen Romance
Throughout this cartoon journey for preteens, the fairy community is dedicated to collecting teeth from slumbering youngsters and placing gold beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He is just a bit more interested in the financial workings behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who supply gold as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the ugly creature he had imagined.
An Unlikely Bond and Common Enemy
The stage is set for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of teen romance (even though it remains very much suitable for children). The goblin and fairy groups are separated from one another, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to bring people as one. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet each holds prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. Fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, prone to taking whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly stupid, foul-smelling, and primitive, but are in fact intelligent and technologically advanced.
Naturally, such a setup needs a common enemy to unite 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 aim to devour the fairies and goblins, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience and Overall Impression
There aren’t all that many animated films aimed at the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not old enough for whatever 14-year-olds are watching instead of popular teen sagas. If your child is in the right age bracket, it probably won’t to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
