A Tooth Fairy Tale Film Analysis: Cartoon Adventure with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story
In this cartoon adventure for preteens, the fairy community is dedicated to collecting teeth from slumbering youngsters and leaving gold under their pillows. Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only 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 is piqued when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the hideous creature he expected.
An Unlikely Bond and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from each other, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people as one. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. Fairies are said to be entitled sorts, given to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and backward, but are actually bright and technologically advanced.
Of course, this scenario needs a common enemy to unite against, and this is duly provided in the form of a group of vicious 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 fairly bloodthirsty, if not particularly skilled, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
You won’t find all that many animated films aimed at the viewer group that is starting to experience early romances, but aren’t yet old enough for the content teenagers view these days in lieu of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to become their new favorite movie, but it’s a decent choice.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
