🔗 Share this article A Tooth Fairy Tale Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Tween Romance In this animated adventure for preteens, the fairy community focuses on collecting teeth from slumbering children and leaving treasure beneath where they sleep. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He is just slightly more curious about the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who provide metal in exchange. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the hideous creature he had imagined. A Forbidden Connection and Shared Threat Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for children). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from one another, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to unite beings together. Both groups as seen here are remarkably alike, yet both maintain biased views about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled types, prone to taking whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and primitive, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced. Naturally, this scenario requires a common enemy to join forces 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 fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains. Target Audience and Final Thoughts You won’t find very many animated films aimed at the kind of audience that is beginning to have early romances, but aren’t yet mature enough for the content teenagers are watching instead of popular teen sagas. If your child is in the right age bracket, it probably won’t to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse. The Tooth Fairy Story arrives in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.