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Rated: 2.5/4 Nov 17, 2023 Full Review Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight Family is a recurring theme in the Trolls series of animated films and Trolls Band Together gives you a double dose of such...
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Trolls Band Together. By Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media Reviewer. age 6+. Cheery threequel is silly, sweet fun; some innuendo, peril. Movie PG 2023 92 minutes. Rate movie. Parents Say: age 12+ 37 reviews.
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Nov 17, 2023 · Trolls Band Together movie review (2023) | Roger Ebert. Reviews. Trolls Band Together. Nell Minow November 17, 2023. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The third in DreamWorks’ animated "Trolls" series is as adorable as the first two, and irresistible in the truest sense of the word.
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By Jesse Hassenger
Updated: Nov 17, 2023 5:35 pm
Posted: Nov 17, 2023 5:29 pm
You have to hand it to the Trolls movies: Though they’re technically a craven bit of IP-mining, there’s nothing about a once-faddish line of extravagantly coiffed dolls that suggests it would make sense as source material for multiple sugar-crazed jukebox musicals. Over the course of what’s now a full trilogy, a battery of filmmakers has worked hard to inject creativity into a seemingly dead-end idea. Befitting its go-big-or-go-bigger sensibility, this huggable extended acid-trip of a kiddie series is at its best when working itself up into a state of tuneful delirium, sending troll queen Poppy (Anna Kendrick) careening through deeply weird animated landscapes, mashing up decades’ worth of pop hits along the way.
The structure is promisingly similar to a classic Muppet movie, in that this small group of trolls must visit a number of locations, recruit more characters, and pause for song breaks. They even encounter characters who resemble old Muppets, as part of Trolls’ mission to make big-budget computer animation look genuinely eccentric and sometimes even handmade, embracing character designs that intentionally clash with the leads’ straightforward cuteness. Velvet and Veneer, for example, resemble a shiny, unholy cross between pre-Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes and the Slender Man. The movie has fun recognizing its own aesthetic derangement, making a number of parent-targeted allusions to various characters’ seeming sexual incompatibility and/or promiscuity. (It’s a particularly strange turn for a series that’s always seemed unsure how much actual romance to tease out of the Poppy/Branch relationship.)
These grown-up jokes are funny, and also a bit much, which is basically the Trolls mission statement. Its ongoing bacchanal of goofiness here makes a particular drag out of Branch, who spends a lot of the movie tediously, if understandably, fuming at his capricious siblings (and it is difficult to generate much sympathy for a quartet of older brothers who ditch a baby, even in cartoon form). Branch’s storyline is supposed to provide some emotional grounding – the movie tees up one of its central lessons about the dangers of joyless perfectionism within its first two minutes – but in doing so pulls focus from Poppy, whose subplot mirrors Branch’s, which is to say it’s a shameless photocopy: She has her own long-lost sibling to find, a plot turn that’s clunky in both its coincidences and its lampshading of those coincidences.
Poppy (Anna Kendrick)
Branch (Justin Timberlake)
Tiny Diamond (Kenan Thompson)
Bridget (Zooey Deschanel)
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Maybe the attempts to tug at heartstrings feel like wasted time because regardless of whatever hastily conceived backstories director Walt Dohrn and his crew assemble, every Trolls movie so far winds up exhausted (and exhausting) by its final stretch. That’s especially true of Band Together, which introduces around 10 new characters while trying to keep in touch with half a dozen figures from the previous movies, all in under 90 minutes (if you don’t count the credits). So it almost doesn’t matter that, say, the design and vocal work for a character like Crimp (Zosia Mamet), Velvet and Veneer’s harried mop creature of an assistant, is amusing and inventive; she’s shuffled on and off screen in too much of a frenzy to make any difference.
Trolls Band Together continues the series’ tradition of turning a negligible toy line into an inventively animated, short-attention-span musical. But like its predecessors only more so, the emotional backstory and life lessons are thinly conceived, which means the crash from the initial sugar high is pronounced. Adults and kids alike may feel exhau...
- Jesse Hassenger
Nov 16, 2023 · The animation is strong, if too candy-coated, and the film is clever and funny from time to time. And parents might even find their own inner boy band fever ignited alongside their kids. Trolls...
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