The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Tween Love Story
In this cartoon adventure aimed at tweens, the world of fairies focuses on collecting baby teeth of slumbering youngsters and leaving treasure under their pillows. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only a bit more curious about the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who provide metal as payment. However, Van’s interest is piqued when he catches sight of a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly gnome he expected.
A Forbidden Connection and Shared Threat
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of young love (even though it remains very much suitable for children). 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 portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet each holds biased views about the opposite side. The fairies are supposed to be self-centered types, prone to stealing anything they want, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and primitive, but are in fact bright and advanced in technology.
Of course, this scenario needs a shared foe to join forces against, and this is duly provided by a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression
You won’t find very many animated films targeting the viewer group that is beginning to have early romances, but aren’t yet old enough for the content 14-year-olds view these days in lieu of popular teen sagas. If your child falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next all-time fave, but you could do worse.
The Tooth Fairy Story arrives in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
