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Anna Kendrick

Poppy Voice

Justin Timberlake

Branch Voice

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

King Gristle Voice

Russell Brand

Creek Voice

Zooey Deschanel

Bridget Voice

Jeffrey Tambor

King Peppy Voice

Christine Baranski

Chef Voice

James Corden

Biggie Voice

Kunal Nayyar

Guy Diamond Voice

Ron Funches

Cooper Voice

Icona Pop

Satin and Chenille Voice

Quvenzhané Wallis

Harper Voice

John Cleese

King Gristle Sr. Voice

Gwen Stefani

DJ Suki Voice

Ricky Dillon

Aspen Heitz Voice

Mike Mitchell

Director

Walt Dohrn

Director

Jonathan Aibel

Screenwriter

Glenn Berger

Screenwriter

Gina Shay

Producer

Dannie Festa

Executive Producer

Yong Duk Jhun

Cinematographer

Nick Fletcher

Film Editing

Christophe Beck

Original Music

Kendal Cronkhite

Production Design

Timothy Lamb

Art Director

Leslee Feldman

Casting

Christi Soper

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Audience Reviews for Trolls

• Jun 10, 2017

  You know, it's been a while since Pixar made a real masterpiece. Inside Out and Finding Dory were both great, great movies, but there's no denying that, at least to me, it fell short of Pixar's best flicks. Don't even get me started on The Good Dinosaur, a B-team Pixar effort. The last true masterpiece we got from a North American animated movie, to me, was The Lego Movie and it's been three years. And I make the distinction, because there's many great animated films from all over the world that I haven't seen yet. Pixar's main competitor, while a more prolific studio than Pixar, has never had the same stellar reputation. Their filmography is certainly solid, but their brand has always been more about getting as much people to see their movies as possible. Don't get me wrong, Pixar's business model is to bring in as many people as well, but they still put in an A+ effort in trying to tell a strong story with emotional depth. So you come for the comedy, but you stay for the characters and how they're developed. With Dreamworks, it's more the other way around. They're centered more on the comedy and if a great story comes out of that, then so be it, but it's not what they focus on. They've had some really great stories on their hands, like with the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, but since the second installment in that franchise, I don't think Dreamworks has managed to make a great movie since. Perhaps that's just me. Since Dragon 2, I've seen all their movies but two. Those two are The Boss Baby and Captain Underpants, both of which came out fairly recently. The films they've released since then are Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Kung Fu Panda 3 and this one. The best of them all, Kung Fu Panda 3, is only good at best. I don't know what it is about this movie, but it was just peaks and valleys. Let's get this out of the way right now, this is a Dreamworks B-team effort to be sure. I don't know how I can tell, but I can tell. You can just sense the fact that the effort simply isn't as there as it would be in a How to Train Your Dragon or even a Shrek (even though the last two installments in that franchise sucked). I think part of the reason I say this is because of the fact that the film is just so damn colorful and relies so much on musical scenes that use real-life pop songs and not just ones specifically written for this movie, like in Frozen. I don't wanna say that this is a sign of laziness, but it's awfully close to it. I say that because they hope to use pop songs and the colorful visuals in order to distract you from the fact that there's really not much to the actual movie. The Bergens want to eat the Trolls since it's meant to make them happy. Trolls escape, but are found and taken hostage 20 years later by a disgraced Bergen chef. Bergen chef plans to use the Trolls to steal the throne from the king. Would be queen, Poppy, and grouchy Branch go on a journey to save those who were taken. It's not what I would call a great story, or even a good one, but it's what they decided on going with. But, again, they just use the visuals and the music to make up for whatever flaws the film may have had. For whom the movie was intended, a very young crowd, they only care about the happy visuals and the musical numbers. They don't give a shit about story. I think this movie suffers from exactly the same problem that Frozen suffered. It's got way too many damn songs for the story to really shine through. Though, in the case of Frozen, at least the story was pretty strong in the end, even if the great number of musical scenes sabotaged the movie left and right. I think it's the same thing here, even though there's no real story to speak of, so I don't know exactly what it was sabotaging. The film isn't even what I would call to be bad because, as I mentioned earlier, there's peaks and valleys. The film, while not being exactly the most clever under the sun, does still have some entertaining and funny moments. And, while I complained about the animation being bright to distract the kiddies, it's still a solidly animated flick. This is another part of the film that screams B-team, the animation just isn't as strong as it was in the HTTYD franchise. The voice acting is quite good. Anna Kendrick is great as is Justin Timberlake. Say what you will about the guy, but he's turned into a pretty damn good actor. I don't think he's got the depth or range of someone like a Michael Shannon, as an example, but he's still better than most people would give him credit for. Voice acting was never a problem for me in this movie. I really don't know if I would say that this was ok or decent. There's a difference, it might not be by much, but there is one. And I don't know, because giving the film 2 stars feels too low, but giving it 2.5 feels way too generous. I suppose it depends on what you're watching it for. If you're watching it because you want something harmless, bright and happy for your kids, then this would be decent. If you don't have kids and you're just watching it because you like animated films and you want to be actually be entertained and drawn into this world, then I'd say this was ok, at best. If you're looking for something to compete with Pixar's best then you're really just barking up the wrong tree. Though it is better than Cars 2. Seriously, I fucking hated Cars 2. Having said all of that, I've decided to settle on 2 stars. But I honestly think that this is a better movie than the rating implies, it's just a movie that never finds a consistently entertaining tone. Not to mention the pedestrian story and the animation, while solid, not being as strong as one has grown accustomed to. If you want to watch this with your family, then this will be an easy watch and you probably won't think about it ever again after you're done. If you're watching alone, it'll also be an easy watch but you'll have to deal with the flaws and there are quite a bit of them. But, by and large, this is still a fairly harmless and inoffensive movie. Some of you will like this, some of you will not, I can't really give it a recommendation, but it's a fine watch for 90-odd minutes.

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  jesse o Super Reviewer
• Apr 24, 2017

  http://cinephilecrocodile.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/trolls-dir-walt-dohrn-mike-mitchell.html

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  Super Reviewer
• Dec 30, 2016

  You may think this is aimed at a younger audience but the songs will definitely keep adults entertained too. Far better than you may think, given the subject matter.

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  Super Reviewer
• Nov 09, 2016

  It's difficult to not feel indifferent about a movie like Trolls. In the end, it's fine. Is it somewhat offensive in terms of originality and cheap covers of gloriously good pop songs? It could certainly be taken that way, but when taking into consideration the target audience for this latest DreamWorks animated adventure it's hard to get too frustrated with the rote story Trolls tolls out or the advantage it takes in remixing recognizable songs into auto-tuned Kidz Bop versions you could have certainly lived without. Of course, Trolls doesn't mean to offend, but rather it simply means to entertain a fairly wide age range of kiddos while at the same time giving over tried and true lessons that deal in being true to one's self to find true happiness. No, Trolls isn't either a good film or a particularly bad one, but more it is simply one that exists to colorfully distract for an hour and a half only to mostly be forgotten the next day. No harm, no foul. Trolls is ultimately something of a mix between DreamWorks own Shrek series as far as character types go while more or less the same story The Smurfs told us as far as being small creatures who live in peace and harmony while having to battle a much larger being who threatens to eat them among other evil things. There wouldn't be anything necessarily wrong with restructuring these archetypes and plotlines were Trolls interested in doing anything fresh or interesting (and when I say interesting I, obviously, mean weirder) with as much as they've given themselves to work with, but by simply slapping a variety of pop covers throughout rather than going full-on musical and ultimately being more harmless than memorable this movie isn't exactly the kind of product a studio wants to put out if they want to retain any type of credibility. Though it really is difficult to say anything downright terrible about Trolls the bottom line is this was a product made to move merchandise and that it actually turned out as competent and sometimes even as fun as it is shouldn't be forgotten. Sure, one could point out the desperate lengths movie studios are now going to in order to cash in on brands given the troll dolls were first popular in the sixties (with a resurgence in the nineties) or one could point to The LEGO Movie as a film based on toys/superfluous junk that actually turned out rather inspired and great, but somewhere in the middle of those truths and thoughts we find Trolls; just happy to have been given enough room to dance and sing and hug. read the whole review at www.reviewsfromabed.com

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  philip p Super Reviewer