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Throughout this animated adventure for preteens, the fairy community focuses on gathering teeth from sleeping youngsters and placing treasure beneath where they sleep. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to gathering baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He’s only slightly more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who supply gold as payment. However, Van’s interest is piqued when he spots a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be not at all the ugly creature he expected.

A Forbidden Connection and Common Enemy

Everything is prepared for an adventure with a light sprinkling of teen romance (even though it remains very much suitable for children). The goblin and fairy communities are separated from one another, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain prejudiced beliefs about the opposite side. The fairies are said to be entitled sorts, prone to stealing anything they want, while goblins are allegedly stupid, foul-smelling, and backward, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.

Naturally, this scenario requires a common enemy to join forces against, and this is duly provided by a group of vicious spiders, with voices by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they aim to devour the goblins and fairies, and they serve as quite savage, if not particularly skilled, villains.

Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression

You won’t find all that many animated films targeting the viewer group that is beginning to have first crushes, but aren’t yet mature enough for whatever teenagers are watching instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to be their next favorite movie, but it’s a decent choice.

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