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Throughout this cartoon adventure aimed at tweens, the fairy community focuses on gathering teeth from slumbering youngsters and leaving treasure beneath where they sleep. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) shows little enthusiasm about devoting his life to collecting baby teeth—a sentiment that’s entirely reasonable. He is just slightly more curious about the underlying economics behind it all: the fairies deliver the teeth to mysterious goblins, who supply gold in exchange. However, Van’s interest grows when he spots a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who turns out to be far from the ugly creature he expected.

An Unlikely Connection and Common Enemy

Everything is prepared for an exciting quest with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The goblin and fairy communities are separated from each other, and nothing fuels the excitement of secrecy to bring people as one. The two species as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain biased views about the opposite side. The fairies are said to be self-centered types, given to taking anything they want, while the goblins are allegedly dim-witted, foul-smelling, and backward, but are actually intelligent and technologically advanced.

Of course, such a setup requires a common enemy to unite against, and this is duly provided by 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 serve as fairly bloodthirsty, if not particularly skilled, villains.

Ideal Viewers and Overall Impression

You won’t find all that many animated films aimed at the kind of audience that is starting to experience first crushes, but aren’t yet mature enough for the content teenagers view these days instead of Twilight. Should your youngster is in the right age bracket, it probably won’t 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 the rest of the UK from 24 October.