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- 2016
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 32 m
- 2016
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 32 m
Summary Enter a colorful, wondrous world populated by hilariously unforgettable characters and discover the story of the overly optimistic Trolls, with a constant song on their lips, and the comedicly pessimistic Bergens, who are only happy when they have trolls in their stomach.
Directed By: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn
Written By: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Erica Rivinoja, Thomas Dam
- 2016
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 32 m
- 2016
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 32 m
Trolls
55
6.4
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Summary Enter a colorful, wondrous world populated by hilariously unforgettable characters and discover the story of the overly optimistic Trolls, with a constant song on their lips, and the comedicly pessimistic Bergens, who are only happy when they have trolls in their stomach.
Directed By: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn
Written By: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Erica Rivinoja, Thomas Dam
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
55
41% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
44% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
16% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
55
41% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
44% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
16% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
On all levels, Trolls delivers. It is nicely paced, the jokes are spot-on (and will work for both the kids and their parents) and, again, this is visually a very special piece of animated artistry.
Like the hit single on its soundtrack, “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” the movie Trolls is irresistibly charming because of a simple but catchy hook.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 220 User Ratings
6.4
55% Positive
122 Ratings
122 Ratings
28% Mixed
62 Ratings
62 Ratings
16% Negative
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 220 User Ratings
6.4
55% Positive
122 Ratings
122 Ratings
28% Mixed
62 Ratings
62 Ratings
16% Negative
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
Trolls was out of this world, Dreamworks Animation have outdone themselves with very clever animation and effects. Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake provided good voice talent to the main characters. James Corden, Kunal Nayyar, Russell Brand and Zooey Deschanel provide the perfect supporting cast. The storyline was the perfect mix of emotions. I am not surprised the film was a success.
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There are certain animated films — like, say, “Inside Out” — that achieve rarefied levels of feeling, imagination, and head-boggling audacity. In their kid-friendly way, they aim high and sail over the bar of their own ambition. But in our desire to celebrate them, let us not overlook the unadulterated magic of a Day-Glo ride for tots like “Trolls.” On the surface (and what a surface! — it just about pops your eyes open with delight), the new feature from DreamWorks Animation, distributed by 20th Century Fox, may not be the kind of blatantly brainy and profound adult-movie-in-toon-drag we’re accustomed to seeing from Pixar. Yet the enchantment that “Trolls” achieves is all too real and, in its way, quite pure. Kids should adore it, but don’t let that scare you — the movie is every 3D psychedelic inch a fairy tale for adults. It’s another antic pop-culture whirligig, with some of the fast-moving prankishness of “The Lego Movie,” but it has a touching theme that dips into a major issue — namely, what’s the nature of happiness? “Trolls” is the right film to pose that question, because it’s an ecstatically happy movie, a giddy EDM kiddie musical that sends you out on a high.
A storybook prologue done in felt colorforms tells us that Trolls are “the happiest creatures the world had ever known.” That makes sense if you think back to your own childhood connection to the iconic Troll Dolls, created in 1959 (as the Good Luck Trolls) by the Danish toymaker Thomas Dam. They had androgynous cherub baby faces with big marble eyes and grins so wide it creased their cheeks, bellies that bulged with just a bit of prominent navel, and, of course, those electroshock billows of cotton-candy hair that seemed to shoot right out of their soft plastic heads. The hair, which came in different wild colors, was their most defining feature, yet what really made the Troll Doll special is that it seemed to be beaming, with an innocent mysterioso knowingness. It’s no accident that the dolls got big in the early ’60s: Away from their outfits, they looked like naked angels reborn as baby hippies. That made them, to a kid back then, the coolest toy in the universe.
“Trolls” was produced in cooperation with the Dam Family, but the movie makes no fetish of Troll Doll nostalgia. It’s very much a present-tense Troll movie, and though it’s always light and fun, there’s nothing quaint about its motivating conflict: The Trolls live like blissed-out Hobbits in the middle of a woods, but they also live in fear of their sworn enemy — the Bergens, a tribe of giant dyspeptic ogres who are miserably unhappy but don’t want to be, and the way they’ve devised to become happy is: to eat Trolls. They do it ritualistically, once a year, on the day they call Trollstice.
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Trolls is a sugar-shocked “Shrek,” an aggressively auto-tuned animated fun ride for easily distracted times.
Trolls just feels very formulaic, and having a pop superstar like Timberlake in your voice cast, and deliberately not having him sing until near the end just seems like a waste of that talent.
Kids, say the five-and-unders seeing their first movie, may connect with this confection. But if you’re old enough to know what “puerile” means, there’s nothing to cling to here.
If you could take the Shrek, Happy Feet and Smurfs movies, toss them in a blender and hit the pulse button a few times, the result would be a pretty reasonable approximation of Trolls, an admittedly vibrant-looking but awfully recognizable animated musical comedy concoction.
Combines the barely-there characterization and irritating cutesiness of “The Smurfs” with the hideous character design and awful pop covers of “Strange Magic.”
Trolls are happy creatures who have always lived in a happy tree in a happy forest. They have happy bodies. Happy hair. In fact, that's probably why their brightly colored mops seem to be exploding out of the top of their heads. I mean, how do you keep that kind of neon joy combed down?
These cute little guys are so blissfully gleeful that they can't keep themselves from breaking out in song at any given moment. They love to hug, too. They hug each other so much that they have to limit it to once an hour just so they can actually get something else done.
However, always being that euphorically enthused does have its drawbacks. For one thing, it emphasizes to those less-happy sorts that they're kinda missing out.
Take the goblin-like Bergens, for example.
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I like the movie, the problem I always have with these films is the singing. It ruins the animation movies for me. Otherwise it's a good movie.
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A disturbing and wrong story full of poop jokes that's most deeming quality is its the soundtrack, and not because it's good, but because it gets stuck in your head.
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I really honestly hate this movie, the only reason I won’t give it a zero is because the animation was good and as cringey as the leading up to the singing may be, the voice acting was good. Would not recommend to anyone other than a little kid.
Rating- 37%
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Kids' Choice Awards, USA
• 6 Nominations
