A Tooth Fairy Tale review – animated adventure with a sprinkling of family-friendly tween romance

<p>A child-suitable romantic subplot underpins this enjoyable story of fairies putting their long-standing differences with goblins aside to defeat a common enemy</p><p>In this animated adventure for preteens, the fairy community’s mission in life is to gather teeth from slumbering children and leave gold for the kids to find under their pillows. (Gold? In my day it was 10p! That’s inflation for you.) Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled by the prospect of spending the foreseeable collecting baby teeth and, to be fair to him, this is entirely reasonable. He’s only a tiny bit more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who provide metal in exchange. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he lays eyes on a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell) and she turns out to be far from the hideous gnome he had been led to expect.</p><p>The stage is set for an adventure with a light sprinkling of teen romance (though it’s still very much suitable for younger kids); the goblin and fairy communities are estranged from one another, and there’s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden to bring people/fairies/goblins together. The two species as seen here are in fact incredibly similar, but each holds prejudiced beliefs about the other. The fairies are supposed to be entitled sorts, given to stealing whatever they fancy, while the goblins are allegedly stupid, smelly and primitive, but are in fact bright and technologically advanced.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/06/a-tooth-fairy-tale-review-animated-adventure-with-a-sprinkling-of-family-friendly-tween-romance">Continue reading...</a>