🔗 Share this article A Tooth Fairy Tale Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Preteen Love Story In this cartoon adventure for preteens, the fairy community focuses on gathering teeth from sleeping children and placing gold beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s completely understandable. He is just a bit 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 grows when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be far from the hideous gnome he expected. A Forbidden Bond and Common Enemy 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 communities are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to bring people together. Both groups as seen here are remarkably alike, yet both maintain biased views about the opposite side. Fairies are said to be entitled types, prone to stealing anything they want, while goblins are reportedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced. Of course, this scenario needs a common enemy to join forces against, and that need is met by a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they make for quite savage, if not especially competent, villains. Target Audience and Overall Impression You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but aren’t yet mature enough for whatever 14-year-olds are watching instead of Twilight. If your child falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next favorite movie, but you could do worse. A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.