🔗 Share this article The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Animated Journey with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Tween Romance Throughout this cartoon adventure aimed at tweens, the world of fairies focuses on collecting teeth from slumbering youngsters and leaving gold under their pillows. Skateboarding 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’s only slightly more curious about the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. However, Van’s interest is piqued when he catches sight of 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 light sprinkling of young love (though it’s perfectly appropriate for children). The goblin and fairy groups are separated from one another, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to bring people together. Both groups portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet both maintain biased views about the other. Fairies are supposed to be self-centered sorts, prone to taking anything they want, while the goblins are allegedly stupid, foul-smelling, and backward, but are actually bright and advanced in technology. Naturally, this scenario needs a shared foe to join forces against, and this is duly provided in the form of a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush about their intentions: they aim to devour the fairies and goblins, and they make for quite savage, though not particularly skilled, villains. Target Audience and Overall Impression There aren’t all that many animated films targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not mature enough for the content teenagers are watching instead of Twilight. If your child falls into this age group, it probably won’t to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse. A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.