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Trolls is a 2016 American animated jukebox musical comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, based on the Good Luck Trolls dolls created by Thomas Dam.
Trolls is an American animated media franchise created by DreamWorks Animation, inspired by the successful line of Troll doll toys created by Thomas Dam. It follows the adventures of a pair of trolls named Poppy and Branch (voiced respectively by Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake ) as they live among their village of pop-singing trolls.
A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.
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is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated musical comedy film based on the dolls created by Thomas Dam for his Good Luck Trolls franchise. It is the first film in the DreamWorks Trolls franchise. It was directed by Mike Mitchell with co-direction by Walt Dohrn, produced by Gina Shay, and written by Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, and Erica Rivinoja. The film stars Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Christine Baranski, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Russell Brand, Jeffrey Tambor and James Corden. It revolves around two Trolls on a quest to save their village from destruction by the Bergens.
The film's first teaser was held at the Licensing Expo 2015. Produced as the 33rd full-length animated feature by DreamWorks Animation, the film premiered on October 8, 2016 at the BFI London Film Festival, and was theatrically released in United States cinemas on November 4, 2016, by 20th Century Fox; it followed the production of DreamWorks' previous Trolls concept. A sequel, Trolls World Tour, was released on April 10, 2020.
DreamWorks Animation’s TROLLS is an irreverent comedy extravaganza with incredible music! From the genius creators of SHREK, TROLLS stars Anna Kendrick as Poppy, the optimistic leader of the Trolls, and her polar opposite, Branch, played by Justin Timberlake. Together, this unlikely pair of Trolls must embark on an adventure that takes them far beyond the only world they’ve ever known.
20 years after the Trolls escaped from the Bergens, who eat Trolls as they believe it makes them happy, Princess Poppy throws a party that attracts the attention of banished Bergen Chef, who captures her friends. Feeling responsible, Poppy enlists paranoid disgruntled survivalist Branch to go along with her on a quest to save Troll Village's population from the Bergens. Their king, King Gristle Jr., plans to serve the Trolls to his kingdom, oblivious to the romantic infatuation towards him by the scullery maid Bridget.
The Trolls are small colorful creatures who live in an almost perpetual state of happiness, singing, dancing, hugging, and having fun all day. However, they are discovered by the Bergens, large, ugly miserable creatures, who can only feel happy by eating a Troll. The Bergens imprison the Trolls and eat them every year on a special occasion, called Trollstice. The Trolls, led by their king, King Peppy, with his baby daughter, Princess Poppy, escape through tunnels on the day of Trollstice, when Prince Gristle was going to eat his first Troll. Enraged, Prince Gristle’s father King Gristle Sr. banishes his Chef, who was in charge of preparing for Trollstice. Chef promises to leave and find the Trolls herself.
20 years later, the now-adult Poppy is retelling the story of how they escaped to a group of young Trolls from a scrapbook. She tells them that she plans to throw a big party to celebrate the Trolls' escape, despite the warnings from the over-cautious and egotistical gray troll, Branch, that loud parties will attract the Bergens. A Troll named Creek, arrives and tells Branch to start being happy instead of being grumpy; Branch refuses. At the party, Branch's warnings come true, when Chef sees the fireworks and kidnaps Poppy's friends Guy Diamond, Biggie with Mr. Dinkles, Fuzzbert, Smidge, Satin & Chenille, DJ Suki, and Cooper, along with Creek, despite Poppy trying to rescue him and Peppy.
Alone inside the bunker, Branch looks at a bunch of homemade party invitations, indicating that he appreciates Poppy's offers of friendship, has an unrequited love for her, and that internally would like to have fun with the rest of the Trolls. Poppy goes to Branch for help, but he refuses, stating he has 10 years worth of supplies in his Bunker and plans to hide. To convince him to go along with her, she brings the other Trolls into his bunker to hide them; with these many Trolls, Branch complains that the supplies will only last a short while. Poppy goes on a rescue mission alone. When she gets into trouble, she's saved by Branch, who thinks she won't make it if she goes alone and wants his bunker back, all of which is Poppy's predictions. Poppy and Branch interact on their journey with each other, with Poppy failing to understand Branch's point of view and Branch finding Poppy annoying. At night, they settle down but Poppy's singing annoys him; he says he likes silence, to which she performs The Sound of Silence in response; this ends with Branch throwing her ukulele in their campfire.
At Bergen Castle, Chef returns with the Trolls and tries to re-instate Trollstice. This is part of her own plot to overthrow Prince Gristle, now King Gristle. She gets her job back and Gristle is in awe of the idea of being happy.
The next morning Branch and Poppy arrive at the tunnels, one leads to Bergen Town and the others to certain death. Cloud Guy appears, annoys Branch to chase him, and both Trolls are led by the cloud to Bergen Town, where they see a crowd of miserable Bergens.
Once inside the Bergen Castle, Poppy and Branch witness Creek getting force-fed to the now-King Gristle Jr. by Chef, but Poppy remains hopeful that Creek survived. Poppy and Branch find the rest of the captured Trolls being guarded by a scullery maid named Bridget (perjoratively called "Idget" by Chef). Poppy discovers that Bridget is secretly in love with King Gristle Jr., and offers to help her get a date with him while trying to confirm if Creek is alive.
Trolls
•Anna Kendrick as Poppy and "Anxious Troll Child" •Iris Dohrn as Baby Poppy •Justin Timberlake as Branch •Liam Henry as Young Branch •Jeffrey Tambor as King Peppy •Russell Brand as Creek •Gwen Stefani as DJ Suki •James Corden as Biggie •Ron Funches as Cooper •Aino Jawo as Satin •Caroline Hjelt as Chenille •Kunal Nayyar as Guy Diamond •Walt Dohrn as Smidge, Fuzzbert and Tunnel Troll •Quvenzhané Wallis as Harper •Ricky Dillon as Aspen Heitz •Meg DeAngelis as Moxie Dewdrop •Kandee Johnson as Mandy Sparkledust •Grace Helbig as Cookie Sugarloaf •GloZell Green as Grandma Rosiepuff •Mike Mitchell as Darius •Emmett Mitchell as Keith and Anxious Troll Child •Nina Bakshi as Bini Troll & Nora Troll •Zoë Crawford as McKenzie Troll •Riley Crawford as Sean Troll •Ollie Mitchell as Olley Troll
Bergens
•Christopher Mintz-Plasse as King Gristle Jr. •Zooey Deschanel as Bridget •Christine Baranski as Chef •John Cleese as King Gristle Sr. •Mike Mitchell as Chad, Captain Starfunkle, Vinny the Phone, Card and Wedgie Bergen #1 •Curtis Stone as Todd and Bergen Guard •Rhys Darby as Bibbly •Walt Dohrn as Wedgie Bergen #2 •Phoebe Dohrn as Bergen Girl
Other
•Mike Mitchell as Barnebis •Walt Dohrn as Mr. Dinkles and Cloud Guy
Themes
The main theme of the movie is about the lengths some go to to obtain and maintain happiness, as stated in the movie's marketing and books such as The Art of DreamWorks Trolls. Despite the cheerfulness of the Trolls (except Branch) and its brightly colored world, the setting of the story, details such as the Cookin' With Trolls book indicate a more darker theme, and the story implies has a much more sinister undertone about a great horror dealt towards the Trolls by the Bergens as a result of their desire to be happy once a year. The Bergens are the main focus of this theme, and it comes in several forms: being willing to eat sentient creatures (the Trolls), Chef wanting to use happiness to have power over her fellow Bergens, Bridget wanting King Gristle Jr.'s love, and King Gristle Jr. believing that there's only one way to be happy, which is eating a Troll. With this, the cost of happiness comes at a price to the Trolls and the Bergens. The Bergens themselves fail to acknowledge that they can be happy without Trolls, as happiness is already inside of them. They're also left unhappy constantly, and can easily be manipulated so long as happiness is promised. For the Trolls, they represent in the movie happiness itself. They fear Bergens, as their happiness costs the Trolls their liberty, but gives the Bergens an expectation that once a year they can stop being miserable. Their carefree nature means they're naturally happy and lack sadness nor want of it, making Branch the only grey and sad Troll. Related to this happiness are smaller themes such as social status. Bridget's position as scullery maid leaves her unable to believe her happiness with King Gristle Jr. can never be obtained due to her low rank. Meanwhile, Branch's greyness is unattractive to the other Trolls and his paranoia a subject of ridicule. Branch also gives a small theme of being a Troll who lets his own past experiences deny himself happiness, and is the only Troll from the Trollstice days left with bad experiences hanging over him. Thus, Branch represents self-punishment and guilt, being a denier of happiness. But happiness is not without its own flaws, and the movie also shows a few negative sides to being happy. As previously mentioned, Chef "controls" the happiness of her fellow Bergens using the Trolls as a means to get what she wants. For the Trolls themselves, one of their most cherished members Creek, who was believed to the most positive Troll in the village but is actually a coward and a traitor, is willing to sacrifice the entire population to stay alive at the cost of their happiness. Poppy also shows blissful ignorance at her party by not treating the Bergens as a threat; thus, her happiness put herself and her fellow Trolls in danger. When it happens, Poppy decides to fix her error and tries to save her captive friends, but after Creek betrayed her and the Snack Pack, she's so distraught at the fact that she and the rest of the Trolls are as good as dead; all the color drain from her body, leaving her looking like Branch, with all the other Trolls following suit.
Software Usage
The main problem presented with the films approach to CGI rendering was a choice by the storyline. Trolls were to extend their hair, split and mould into various shapes. The problem this presented is maintaining a consistency in the bend of the hair as it did these things. In addition, another choice was to make the world out of wooly textures. This provided the tw biggest artistic challenges of the film. The result was that both animation and character effects teams had to work closely together. The Character effects team was repsonisble for control of the hair animation. Trolls produced large hair hair rigs, which had to be robust. In larger scenes, animation effects would have to step in and control the animation taking place with draw overs, CV locking tools and animated stylers. Hair rigs were produced with a modified version of the Spline IK system. Each rig has 3 primary IKs and 10 secondary, rigs also had to scale and warp with their cage and grow as animation required. The hair rigs required large amounts of control and accuracy of shapes was critical. A kink styler also ahd to be added to willow to control some noise and space manipulation. A convex NURBS tube was used during chorographical shots to control the hair in a artistic manner. Keith's running gag of hiding in Troll hair also required a collision styler in willow. To control Bridget's hair, the rainbow wig was split into 8 parts. The software handled the control of wig both when it was formed and when it was deconstructed. Fire was constantly rendered as hair and followed much of the same principles as other examples of hair. Shots were renders using a mixture of techniques to suit the scene. Most destruction on set took place at Troll height (6 inches) so most of the textiles were visible in shot. However, this had to be maintained for the Bergens as well and digging through dirt and rock would also result in fuzz, wool and hair. The technology behind Trolls was an achievement for the hair and textures alone, but proved that the same techniques could be used for non-hair elements.
Character Development
General The main character of the movie was decided upon being named "Poppy" after the color "poppy pink". Originally, they went for a more 1980s-style of character design, but rejected it for a more ugly-cute style as it gave more distinction in character design. As Poppy's design changed, so did the general style of the Trolls themselves, and each version of Poppy caused a different art direction. A number of artists produced designs for the concept of Poppy. Timothy Lamb's art style was chosen as the overall look. Other artists included Craig Kellman, who did a number of character studies, and Sebastian Piquet, who made color concepts, including one of Poppy's dress designs of which seemed to have been used for her appearance in Trolls: The Beat Goes On!. Priscilla Wong also did the costume that would be her royal attire in the original party scene, which would have been Poppy's coronation. Poppy had a number of dress designs which were used for a scene removed from the film. She was even at one stage considered for having a gem, but it was removed. At one point, Poppy was even supposed to be naked, but this was dropped. Poppy was one of the first characters designed. As Poppy's design was completed, Branch became the focus. Branch was made to be her counterpart and was considered much easier to draw, since he just had to contrast Poppy's design, i.e. grey colors against Poppy's vivid pink. Similarly to Poppy, Branch had a gem in his belly button that was added and removed. His attire went through a number of alterations, but was always based upon survival-style clothing made from found items such as leaves. He was often depicted with weapons. Cooper's design was also overhauled a number of designs, and was based on an old animal Troll doll Dam Stuff produced of a giraffe. His design went through lots of alternations, and was also produced quite early on, as his initial design matched the 1980s design Poppy had. At different points, he would look very different in design. Satin & Chenille also had a number of design changes, and were supposed to change outfits regularly throughout the movie, but this was dropped due to costs. The twins had numerous design concepts. By the point Cooper, Biggie, Smidge, Branch, and Poppy were at some sort of design status, they were lined up against a design chart. The print of this from The Art of DreamWorks Trolls shows that more members of The Snack Pack were originally intended; the rest weren't yet finalized. DJ Suki was originally trademarked as "DJ Harmony", but this name was changed less than a month later on February 25, 2015, when new trademarks were filed under her finalized name of "DJ Suki". The Bergens were meant to be unattractive and miserable looking monsters that ate Trolls. Bridget and King Gristle Jr. were made short for their species, which made them unattractive to other Bergens for this reason. Gristle's direction was simply that he was spoiled and wore the same clothes as a teenager, hence they didn't fit him. Bridget's design was made alongside Zooey Deschanel's performance, so voice actress and character development were side-by-side designs. She was one of the more fun designs to come up with for the artists. Her persona "Lady Glittersparkles" was based on a 1970s diva (generally referring to a female celebrity). The Bergens in general were meant to be based on 1970s slum. Craig Kellman initially came up with the more weirder approach to the Bergens with tight clothes and high waists. Unused Characters Creek was meant to have a charming and handsome look, and went through several designs, many of which had his hair glistening. Grandma Rosiepuff was also added to give Branch a traumatic background. These two characters are a split of an initial character who was meant to be the one who betrayed the Trolls, Miss Guffin, until she was scrapped as she seemed too appealing and they thought she was so funny that no one could recover from her betrayal. Miss Guffin actually had a trademark in her name on January 20, 2015. Presumably she was dropped as a character by June 10, 2015 as this is the date of Creek's trademark. A number of other characters were made for the film that did not get in: Maddy, Cybil (whose guru aspect was also reused for Creek), Aspen Heitz, Karma, Harper, the only one of these Trolls to actually appear in the movie with a background role. Aspen's design, alongside other more characters, was instead used for a Random Troll model, which appeared in the inital escape from Bergen Town. Other Kevan Shorey confirmed that a lot of cheating went on with the characters' models. An example was uploaded of Poppy and Branch's hug at the end of True Colors, demonstrating that Poppy's head actually moved into Branch's, but from the angle seen in the movie this wasn't apparent.
After being announced as the voice to the lead character in the musical comedy Trolls opposite Anna Kendrick, Billboard reported that Justin Timberlake also signed on to write and perform original music for the film.
By the time Timberlake joined the project, there was still some original music needed to be written for the film. Timberlake planned to cover the disco genre among the variety of pop songs present in the film. For the soundtrack album, Earth, Wind & Fire re-recorded "September" with Timberlake and Kendrick.
The film itself grossed over $346 million in cinemas and made a profit of $19 million. The rest of the money grossed was taken up by its price tag of $125 million, while its global P&R costed $105 million. It made a further $170 million from TV revenues.
By February 2021, Trolls made over $343 million in box office sales, both domestically and overseas, and another $71 million on home video sales, including DVD and Blu-Ray.
Despite its commercial success, there was still much criticism towards the movie upon its release, often being compared to Sony Pictures Animation's two The Smurfs animated films released at the time; one of the common cited advantage that the movie over them had was less Canon from its source material to rely upon. The cast was noted by Forbes reviewer Luke Y. Thompson to be one that would not appeal to the target demographic, but a wider "hipper" audience. He said that the movie was badly timed with Doctor Strange being released at the same time.
The movie was praised for its trippy experience and excellent setting. The Bergens were compared as being a cross between Gargamel from The Smurfs and the Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine, while the Trolls were seen as Prozac that the Bergens popped to feel better. The film's world was described as "reassuring" and "unsettling". Story-wise, it was described as following the typical plot formula that DreamWorks was criticized for constantly using during the 2000s, but with a few twists.
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Trolls is a 2016 American computer-animated jukebox musical comedy film based on the "Good Luck Trolls" toys created by Thomas Dam and released as the 33rd animated film by DreamWorks Animation.
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