🔗 Share this article The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Animated Journey with a Sprinkling of Kid-Appropriate Preteen Love Story In this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the world of fairies focuses on collecting baby teeth of slumbering children and leaving gold under their pillows. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only slightly more curious about the financial workings 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 spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the ugly gnome he expected. An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of teen romance (though it’s perfectly appropriate for children). The goblin and fairy communities are separated from one another, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. The fairies are said to be self-centered sorts, given to taking whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and backward, but are actually intelligent and technologically advanced. Naturally, such a setup needs a common enemy to unite against, and this is duly provided by some nasty spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains. Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression You won’t find all that many children’s animations targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have early romances, but aren’t yet old enough for whatever teenagers are watching instead of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to be their next all-time fave, but it’s a decent choice. The Tooth Fairy Story releases in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and the rest of the UK from 24 October.