The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Tween Love Story
In this animated journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on gathering baby teeth of sleeping children and leaving gold beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding teenage rebel 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 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 spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the ugly creature he had imagined.
An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy
The stage is set for an adventure with a light sprinkling of young love (though it’s very much suitable for children). The fairy and goblin communities are separated from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to bring people as one. Both groups as seen here are remarkably alike, yet both maintain biased views about the opposite side. The fairies are supposed to be self-centered sorts, given to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are allegedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.
Of course, such a setup needs a shared foe to unite against, and that need is met by a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as quite savage, if not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience and Overall Impression
There aren’t all that many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have early romances, but aren’t yet old enough for whatever teenagers view these days in lieu of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to be their next all-time fave, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
