🔗 Share this article The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story Throughout this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on gathering teeth from sleeping youngsters and leaving treasure under their pillows. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only slightly more curious about the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who supply gold in exchange. However, Van’s interest is piqued when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the hideous creature he expected. An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of teen romance (though it’s perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin groups are separated from each other, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people together. Both groups portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. Fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, prone to taking whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are in fact intelligent and advanced in technology. Naturally, this scenario requires a common enemy to join forces against, and this is duly provided in the form of a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush about their intentions: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they make for quite savage, though not especially competent, villains. Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts There aren’t 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 14-year-olds are watching in lieu of Twilight. If your child 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 releases in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.