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Throughout this animated adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on collecting teeth from slumbering children and placing gold beneath where they sleep. Board-riding teenage rebel fairy Van (brought to life by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to gathering baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only a bit more curious about the financial workings behind it all: the fairies hand over the molars to unseen goblins, who provide metal in exchange. 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 creature he had imagined.

A Forbidden Connection and Shared Threat

The stage is set for an exciting quest with a light sprinkling of young love (even though it remains very much suitable for children). The goblin and fairy groups are estranged from one another, and nothing fuels 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, given to stealing whatever they fancy, while goblins are allegedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and backward, but are actually intelligent and technologically advanced.

Of course, this scenario needs 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 aim to devour the fairies and goblins, and they make for fairly bloodthirsty, though not particularly skilled, villains.

Target Audience and Overall Impression

You won’t find very many animated films aimed at the kind of audience that is starting to experience first crushes, but aren’t yet old enough for the content teenagers are watching instead of popular teen sagas. Should your youngster falls into this age group, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse.

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