A Tooth Fairy Tale Film Analysis: Animated Journey with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Preteen Romance
In this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on collecting baby teeth of slumbering youngsters and leaving gold beneath where they sleep. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only slightly more interested in the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth 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 far from the hideous gnome he had imagined.
An Unlikely Connection and Shared Threat
Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for children). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to unite beings as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain biased views about the opposite side. The fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, prone to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and primitive, but are actually intelligent and advanced in technology.
Naturally, such a setup needs a common enemy to join forces against, and that need is met 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 goblins and fairies, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience and Final Thoughts
You won’t find very many children’s animations aimed at the viewer group that is starting to experience early romances, but aren’t yet mature enough for whatever teenagers are watching instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, it probably won’t to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse.
A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.
