🔗 Share this article A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Preteen Love Story Throughout this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on gathering teeth from slumbering children and placing 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 gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He is just a bit more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars 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 turns out to be far from the ugly creature he expected. An Unlikely Connection and Shared Threat The stage is set for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s very much suitable for children). The goblin and fairy groups are separated from each other, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people together. The two species portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet each holds biased views about the opposite side. Fairies are said to be entitled types, prone to taking whatever they fancy, while the goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and backward, but are actually bright and advanced in technology. Naturally, such a setup needs a shared foe to join forces against, and that need is met in the form of a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret about their intentions: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as quite savage, though not particularly skilled, villains. Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts There aren’t all that many animated films aimed at the kind of audience that is starting to experience first crushes, but are not mature enough for whatever teenagers view these days in lieu of Twilight. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but it’s a decent choice. The Tooth Fairy Story arrives in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.