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Throughout this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the world of fairies focuses on collecting teeth from sleeping youngsters and leaving treasure under their pillows. Board-riding youthful nonconformist 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 interested in the financial workings behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the ugly gnome he had imagined.

An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy

The stage is set for an adventure with a gentle touch of teen romance (though it’s perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin communities are estranged from each other, and there’s nothing like the excitement of secrecy to unite beings as one. Both groups as seen here are remarkably alike, yet both maintain biased views about the other. The fairies are said to be entitled types, prone to stealing anything they want, while goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and backward, but are in fact intelligent and technologically advanced.

Of course, this scenario requires a common enemy 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 fairies and goblins, and they serve as quite savage, though not especially competent, villains.

Ideal Viewers and Final Thoughts

There aren’t very many children’s animations aimed at the kind of audience that is beginning to have early romances, but are not old enough for the content teenagers are watching instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, it probably won’t to be their next all-time fave, but you could do worse.

The Tooth Fairy Story releases in Scottish cinemas starting October 10 and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.