
Trolls
The '90s hair-crazy toy sensation goes big screen in this DreamWorks animated family musical. Features the singing voices of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, and Zooey Deschanel.
Follows Poppy (Kendrick), the leader of the trolls who must save her kind when a group are kidnapped by the troll-hungry Bergens. But Poppy cannot do it alone, she gets help from grumpy loner Branch (Timberlake).
- Director:
- Mike Mitchell ('The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water')Walt Dohrn (feature debut)
- Writer:
- Jonathan AibelGlenn Berger
- Cast:
- Anna KendrickJustin TimberlakeZooey DeschanelGwen StefaniRussell BrandJames CordenChristopher Mintz-PlasseRhys DarbyJohn CleeseJeffrey TamborQuvenzhané Wallis

Reviews & comments

Flicks, Liam Maguren
flicksI’m a Grinch when it comes to spontaneous song-n-dance sequences in modern animated family films. Movies like Despicable Me will throw in a Bee Gees number without ever committing to being a musical in order to gain unearned jives from its audience. It’s cheap, but it makes me thankful when a film like DreamWorks’ Trolls gets it right.
Simply beastly
After Angry Birds, a movie based on an app, Transformers and Lego franchises built on toys, a full-length feature about multi-coloured, vertically haired, squat, 1950s Danish dolls, that were popular in the 1990s, seems inevitable. As merchandise cash-ins go, it could be worse. But then, with a plot, script and characters this thin, it could be a hell of a...

Variety
pressKids should adore it, but don't let that scare you - the movie is every 3D psychedelic inch a fairy tale for adults.

The New York Times
pressExuberant, busy and sometimes funny, DreamWorks Animation's "Trolls" is determined to amuse.

The Guardian
pressThe precision-tooled brilliance of this sort of animation is beginning to wear a little thin. Still, Trolls is a fun enough ride.

Stuff
pressDreamworks 33rd animated adventure is also likely to be one of its most polarising.

Newshub
pressIt's perfectly timed to deliver some peace and happiness to festively frazzled parents of small rugrats everywhere.

Los Angeles Times
pressAs infernally sugary as this movie may sound on paper, and however mercenary its commercial intentions, it's hard to resist ...

Flicks, Liam Maguren
flicksI’m a Grinch when it comes to spontaneous song-n-dance sequences in modern animated family films. Movies like Despicable Me will throw in a Bee Gees number without ever committing to being a musical in order to gain unearned jives from its audience. It’s cheap, but it makes me thankful when a film like DreamWorks’ Trolls gets it right.

Variety
pressKids should adore it, but don't let that scare you - the movie is every 3D psychedelic inch a fairy tale for adults.

The New York Times
pressExuberant, busy and sometimes funny, DreamWorks Animation's "Trolls" is determined to amuse.

The Guardian
pressThe precision-tooled brilliance of this sort of animation is beginning to wear a little thin. Still, Trolls is a fun enough ride.

Stuff
pressDreamworks 33rd animated adventure is also likely to be one of its most polarising.

Newshub
pressIt's perfectly timed to deliver some peace and happiness to festively frazzled parents of small rugrats everywhere.

Los Angeles Times
pressAs infernally sugary as this movie may sound on paper, and however mercenary its commercial intentions, it's hard to resist ...
Simply beastly
After Angry Birds, a movie based on an app, Transformers and Lego franchises built on toys, a full-length feature about multi-coloured, vertically haired, squat, 1950s Danish dolls, that were popular in the 1990s, seems inevitable. As merchandise cash-ins go, it could be worse. But then, with a plot, script and characters this thin, it could be a hell of...
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