A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Cartoon Journey with a Touch of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story

Throughout this cartoon journey for preteens, the world of fairies focuses on gathering teeth from sleeping children and leaving treasure under their pillows. Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He’s only a bit more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he catches sight of a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be far from the ugly creature he had imagined.

A Forbidden Connection and Common Enemy

The stage is set for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for children). The goblin and fairy groups are estranged from one another, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. The two species as seen here are remarkably alike, yet each holds biased views about the other. Fairies are said to be entitled sorts, given to stealing whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and primitive, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.

Of course, such a setup requires a shared foe to unite against, and that need is met by some nasty spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the fairies and goblins, and they make for quite savage, if not particularly skilled, villains.

Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts

There aren’t very many animated films aimed at the viewer group that is starting to experience early romances, but aren’t yet mature enough for whatever 14-year-olds view these days instead of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse.

A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.