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Throughout this cartoon journey aimed at tweens, the fairy community is dedicated to gathering teeth from sleeping youngsters and leaving gold under their pillows. Board-riding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s completely understandable. He’s only slightly more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. However, Van’s interest grows when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the ugly gnome he had imagined.

An Unlikely Bond and Shared Threat

The stage is set for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (though it’s perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin communities are separated from each other, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. Both groups portrayed in the film are incredibly similar, yet each holds biased views about the opposite side. Fairies are supposed to be self-centered sorts, given to taking whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and primitive, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.

Naturally, this scenario requires a shared foe to join forces against, and that need is met in the form of some nasty spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. They make no secret about their intentions: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they make for quite savage, if not particularly skilled, villains.

Target Audience and Overall Impression

You won’t find all that many children’s animations aimed at the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but aren’t yet old enough for whatever 14-year-olds view these days 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.

A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in movie theaters in Scotland from 10 October and across the United Kingdom beginning October 24.