A Tooth Fairy Tale Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Touch of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story
In this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to gathering baby teeth of sleeping children and placing treasure under their pillows. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He is just slightly more interested in the financial workings behind it all: 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 (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly creature he expected.
An Unlikely Bond and Common Enemy
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of teen romance (though it’s very much suitable for younger kids). The goblin and fairy groups are estranged from each other, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to unite beings as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet both maintain biased views about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled types, given to stealing anything they want, while goblins are allegedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and primitive, but are in fact intelligent and technologically advanced.
Naturally, this scenario needs a common enemy to unite against, and this is duly provided by a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they serve as quite savage, if not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience 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 are watching instead of Twilight. Should your youngster falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next favorite movie, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.
