Trolls Band Together

MOVIE #1,336 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 01.31.24 I completely understand people who are fundamentally against the Trolls movies. They are loud and obnoxious pop hits jukebox flicks which seem to amount to nothing more than “hey, I know that song!” I can’t disagree with that and am also somewhat annoyed by the premise. But here’s the thing: each one has gotten progressively better and more creative. They’ve leaned into experimenting with animation styles (there’s even a Robert Crumb homage). And they pack in a shit ton of actual jokes. The fam and I had a lovely Friday night at the movies with this one.

I also wanna shout-out Kenan Thompson who voices Tiny Diamond. I do not get the appeal of Thompson as an actor but I LOVE when he shows up in kids films. I cannot remember the line but he says something about Rhonda (an armadillo-bus that the characters ride that acts like a dog) which had me literally LOL-ing. I will forever be a proponent of the children's content creators who aren’t afraid to bring the stupid in this Pixar-ified landscape and the Trolls franchise is an underrated entry in this department. 8/10

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Trolls Band Together is a 2023 American animated jukebox musical comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures, based on the Good Luck Trolls dolls from Thomas Dam. It serves as the sequel to Trolls World Tour (2020), and the third main installment in the Trolls franchise. The film was directed by Walt Dohrn and co-directed by Tim Heitz (in his feature directorial debut), from a screenplay written by Elizabeth Tippet. Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, who wrote the screenplays for the previous installments, returned to serve as executive producers alongside Dannie Festa. Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Icona Pop, Anderson .Paak, Ron Funches, Kenan Thompson, Kunal Nayyar and Dohrn reprise their voice roles from previous films, with newcomers Eric André, Kid Cudi, Daveed Diggs, Troye Sivan, Camila Cabello, Amy Schumer, Andrew Rannells, RuPaul and Zosia Mamet joining the ensemble voice cast. In the film, Branch (Timberlake) and Poppy (Kendrick), who are officially a couple, attempt to rescue Floyd (Sivan) while reuniting Branch's brothers after the boyband phenomenon, BroZone, was disbanded. It was released on October 12, 2023.