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Throughout this cartoon adventure aimed at tweens, the world of fairies focuses on gathering baby teeth of slumbering youngsters and placing treasure under their pillows. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He is just slightly more curious about the financial workings behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he catches sight of a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the hideous gnome he expected.

An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy

Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of teen romance (even though it remains very much suitable for children). The fairy and goblin communities are estranged from one another, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to bring people as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are remarkably alike, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the other. Fairies are supposed to be entitled types, prone to taking anything they want, while the goblins are reportedly stupid, foul-smelling, and backward, but are in fact bright and advanced in technology.

Naturally, such a setup requires a shared foe to unite against, and that need is met by some nasty spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret with these guys: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, if not especially competent, villains.

Target Audience and Overall Impression

You won’t find all that many children’s animations aimed at the viewer group that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not mature enough for the content teenagers view these days in lieu of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, it probably won’t to become their new favorite movie, but it’s a decent choice.

A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and the rest of the UK from 24 October.