🔗 Share this article A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Animated Journey with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Tween Romance In this animated journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on collecting teeth from sleeping youngsters and leaving gold under their pillows. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced 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 curious about the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly creature he had imagined. An Unlikely Connection and Shared Threat Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for children). The goblin and fairy communities are estranged from one another, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. The two species portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet each holds biased views about the other. Fairies are supposed to be entitled types, given to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced. Of course, such a setup requires a shared foe to unite against, and this is duly provided in the form of some nasty spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush about their intentions: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not particularly skilled, villains. Target Audience and Overall Impression There aren’t all that many children’s animations targeting the viewer group that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not old enough for whatever 14-year-olds are watching in lieu of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to be their next all-time fave, but it’s a decent choice. A Tooth Fairy Tale arrives in movie theaters in Scotland starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.