🔗 Share this article A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Animated Adventure with a Touch of Family-Friendly Tween Love Story Throughout this animated adventure for preteens, the fairy community focuses on gathering baby teeth of slumbering children and leaving treasure beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He is just slightly more interested in the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly creature he expected. An Unlikely Bond and Shared Threat Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of teen romance (though it’s very much suitable for children). The goblin and fairy groups are estranged from each other, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to unite beings together. The two species portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. Fairies are supposed to be entitled types, given to taking whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and primitive, but are actually bright and advanced in technology. Naturally, this scenario needs a common enemy to join forces against, and this is duly provided by some nasty spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they aim to devour the fairies and goblins, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, though not especially competent, villains. Target Audience and Overall Impression You won’t find all that many children’s animations aimed at the kind of audience that is starting to experience first crushes, but are not old enough for whatever 14-year-olds view these days in lieu of popular teen sagas. If your child is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to be their next all-time fave, but you could do worse. The Tooth Fairy Story releases in Scottish cinemas from 10 October and the rest of the UK from 24 October.