Rating: C
Sparkles! Sunshine! Giddiness! Laughter! If I didn't add sparkles you may have thought I was talking about the smurfs, but I'm not. Instead I'm talking about Trolls, a movie based on those funky troll toys with fuzzy hair that was so popular when I was a kid. I owned one, because everyone did, even though I thought it was ugly. It had a jewel on its belly button. Playing with its hair was amusing.
Bergens are giant like miserable creatures who discover that if they eat a happy, joyous, singing troll they get to experience a little bit of joy. Trolls are Bergens Prozac. The Bergens enslave the trolls in a caged tree where they get to attack and steal trolls to eat. Awesome plot point, right? Wait, it gets better . . .
When the Trolls escape to safety, this safety is threatened, leaving Poppy (Anna Kendrick), the happiest Troll ever born, and Branch (Justin Timberlake), the most depressive troll in existence, to go off on a merry adventure full of music, singing, and understanding.
As this is a musical I did enjoy some of the songs, but overall I was disappointed with Trolls. I was hoping for so much more, and the plot itself left me feeling discombobulated. (discombobulated may not be the right word, creeped out is more like it, but discombobulated is such a fantastic word that I want to use it.)
And then the movie ended and I went home.
There is one great thing Trolls has given the World: "Can't Stop the Feeling" by Justin Timberlake. It's a really great song. So catchy and fun.
Rated PG for some mild rude humor
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