🔗 Share this article A Tooth Fairy Tale Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Sprinkling of Family-Friendly Preteen Romance Throughout this animated adventure for preteens, the fairy community focuses on gathering baby teeth of slumbering children and leaving treasure beneath where they sleep. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about spending his future to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He is just slightly more curious about the financial workings of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who provide metal as payment. However, Van’s interest grows 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 The stage is set for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The goblin and fairy groups are separated from each other, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people together. Both groups portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled types, prone to taking anything they want, while goblins are reportedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are actually intelligent and advanced in technology. Of course, such a setup requires a shared foe to unite against, and that need is met by some nasty spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they aim to devour the fairies and goblins, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains. Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression You won’t find all that many children’s animations aimed at the kind of audience that is beginning to have early romances, but are not old enough for whatever 14-year-olds view these days in lieu of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse. A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and across the United Kingdom from 24 October.