The movie Trolls is
a 3D animation that’s suitable for children. It has nice songs they can jump
around to and a theme filled with colors they’ll find appealing. As an adult,
though, the movie’s style of delivery went over my head. There are many
irrelevant characters, nothing meaningful about some of the Trolls’ lifestyles,
and happenings that will lead you down a path you wish a movie would never take
you—a path where you have to suspend your common sense just to keep up.
The movie is
fictional, and you might think all you need is imagination and a childlike
heart to understand it. But I’ll tell you, the writers also need you to forget
how to think. How they merged so many random events into one is worth seeing,
I’ll give them that. The problem is, you won’t enjoy a bit of it.
I wasn’t
expecting much when I decided to see this movie, and I wasn’t blown away by the
happenings or let down by the lack thereof. The movie is suitable for your
children to watch on a nice day when there’s nothing better showing. Amid all
this not-so-great stuff are cool songs, nice voice acting by Justin Timberlake,
and a very colorful experience.
Trolls is
based on the Troll Dolls, and this 3D animation is produced by DreamWorks
Animation. It also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song
for "Can’t Stop the Feeling!" at the upcoming Oscars.
The movie’s plot
starts with the introduction of the two main creatures at play: the Bergens and
the Trolls.
The Trolls are
small creatures who spend their whole lives in a perpetual state of happiness.
You’ll find them throwing parties, making stuff, and doing everything they can
to keep the music playing. They dance and hug each other to the point of
nausea.
On the other
side of the coin are the Bergens—large, ugly creatures who believe they can
never feel happiness. Then they discovered the Trolls and all their happy
moments. They realized that eating a Troll would give them a moment of extreme
happiness.
So, they
captured the Troll tree, locked it in a cage, and held an annual festival where
each Bergen got to eat a Troll. The Trolls, not wanting to be eaten every year,
escaped through a tunnel one fateful year, leaving the Bergens in a state of
forever sadness.
Things didn’t
remain like that for long, though—not for the now free and happy Trolls or the
sad Bergens. What happened next is what the movie is about.
0 comments:
Post a Comment