🔗 Share this article The Tooth Fairy Story Film Analysis: Cartoon Journey with a Touch of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story In this animated journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to collecting baby teeth of slumbering youngsters and placing gold beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He’s only slightly more interested in the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who provide metal as payment. 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 expected. An Unlikely Bond and Common Enemy Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of teen romance (though it’s perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin groups are estranged from each other, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. Fairies are supposed to be self-centered sorts, prone to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and primitive, but are actually intelligent and advanced in technology. Of course, such a setup needs a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met by some nasty 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 make for fairly bloodthirsty, though not especially competent, villains. Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the viewer group that is beginning to have first crushes, but aren’t yet mature enough for the content teenagers view these days in lieu of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse. The Tooth Fairy Story releases in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.