TROLLS BAND TOGETHER
Cert U
91 mins
BBFC advice: Contains very mild threat, rude humour, sex references, language
In 2015, I wrote: "Trolls is utterly infectious. It makes you smile and tap your toes whether you are seven or 77."
It was so fresh and vibrant and had the earworm hit Can't Stop The Feeling.
Eight years on, the smiles have waned because the characters are so familiar, and now what has become a franchise leans on lame jokes and songs that I have already forgotten.
Even Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake, who lend their voices to the film's leads, Poppy and Branch, don't have the same wow factor they did back then.
In Walt Dohrn's picture, Branch returns to the painful day his brothers' band, Brozone, split up.
He was the baby of the family and wanted to stay together, but three of the others were fed up with the dominant behaviour of the eldest (Eric André).
Anyway, they are reunited because one of the siblings (Troye Sivan) is being held hostage, and the only way of releasing him is for them to find perfect harmony.
The bad guys are two superstar singers (Amy Schumer and Andrew Rannells) who are literally sucking the life out of him to enable them to perform to his standard.
The storyline is convoluted, and too many of the gags are about 90s boy bands and would fall flat for the target audience.
In addition, one of the most lovable characters, Bridget the Bergen (Zooey Deschanel), is peripheral to the plot.
Thus, while it is still wonderfully colourful, Trolls fails to grab and, ultimately, feels like a big plate of deja vu.
That is until Timberlake's old band, Nsync, really do turn up...
Sadly, we are told that Trolls 4 has been pencilled in.
Reasons to watch: It's Trolls
Reasons to avoid: Seen it before
Laughs: None
Jumps: None
Vomit: None
Nudity: None
Overall rating: 5/10
Did you know? This is the fifth DreamWorks Animation film to become a trilogy, after Shrek the Third (2007), Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019).
The final word. Walt Dohrn: "Each actor we brought had to be able to act, be funny, and be able to sing and they each had to have a very distinct sound to their voice so you could hear the difference between each of them. Not only that, they each had a separate story to tell, so that voice had to capture what that story was. It was a fun process but a long one." Supanova
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