{"id":91994,"date":"2016-10-16T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=91994"},"modified":"2016-10-16T19:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T18:42:22","slug":"trolls-film-review-a-nostalgia-trip-to-embark-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/trolls-film-review-a-nostalgia-trip-to-embark-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolls film review: a nostalgia trip to embark on?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ext-gen1314\">We live in a time when studios turn out movies based on any zeitgeisty craze in order to make the big bucks regardless of whether it\u2019s a good idea or not (<strong><i>Emojimovie <\/i><\/strong>anyone?). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1314\">This year we see the revival of Trolls, the ugly, punk-haired toy that adorned pencils and pockets in the early 90s, but their debut on the big screen is courtesy of the creators of <em><strong>Shrek<\/strong><\/em>, which bodes well, and thankfully the result is a vibrant, fun and cheeky movie that even big kids should enjoy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1314\">The story is a classic rescue mission, with our two heroes, the ebullient Princess Poppy (voiced by Anna Kendrick) and the sullen Branch (Justin Timberlake), setting off to Bergen Town to save their friends from its ogre-like inhabitants, who think that the only way to be happy is to eat the little critters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1314\">Along the way they encounter singing plants, carnivorous creatures and floating eyeballs in a colourful, nightmarish place that could be twinned with Tim-Burton-ville or the animated Wonderland. Trolls fart glitter, crap cupcakes and burst into scenario-appropriate song \u2013\u00a0with Timberlake displaying his eclectic tastes as exec music producer on the film. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1314\">Yet even though there\u2019s oodles of glitter, singing, hugging and scrapbooking, don\u2019t dismiss this as saccharin kiddie fare; directors Walt Dohrn and Mike Mitchell \u2013\u00a0whose resumes include <i><strong>SpongeBob SquarePants<\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>\u2013\u00a0have admitted to drawing from the humour of <strong><i>Monty Python And The Holy Grail<\/i> <\/strong>and <strong><i>The Mighty Boosh<\/i><\/strong>, so there\u2019s enough wit and surrealism to keep older folk entertained too. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1314\">The animation itself is impressively detailed, giving a lo-fi, tactile look to the characters, in keeping with the original toys, while the song choice and vocal performances (especially Zooey Deschanel\u2019s rendition of \u2018Hello\u2019) will tug you in all the right directions despite yourself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1314\">As Branch says, &#8220;Life isn\u2019t all cupcakes and rainbows,&#8221; but <em><strong>Trolls<\/strong><\/em> might just change your mind, if only for 92 multi-coloured minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We come trip-trapping in with our Trolls review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":91995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,8],"tags":[3232],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Trolls.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}