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Throughout this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, 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 feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only slightly more interested in the financial workings behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who provide metal in exchange. However, Van’s interest is piqued when he catches sight of a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be far from the ugly gnome he expected.

A Forbidden Bond and Shared Threat

Everything is prepared for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin groups are separated from each other, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to bring people together. The two species portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. The fairies are said to be self-centered types, given to stealing anything they want, while the goblins are reportedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and primitive, but are actually intelligent and technologically advanced.

Of course, such a setup needs a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met in the form of a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, though not especially competent, villains.

Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression

There aren’t very many animated films targeting the viewer group that is starting to experience early romances, but are not mature enough for whatever teenagers are watching instead of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, it probably won’t to become their new favorite movie, but you could do worse.

The Tooth Fairy Story releases in movie theaters in Scotland starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.