Trolls World Tour review - eyeball-frazzling sequel offers same again
(The Guardian Culture News)

The second dose of the kids animation follows the same bland template as the first - with chilling efficiencyThe Trolls sequel is here: another eyeball-frazzlingly multicoloured screensaver movie for little kids, with all the aspartame hyperactivity of the first film - but less of the fun, and less (or even less) of the reason to exist in the first place. It´s a film which never relaxes to take a breath for a moment, and is swamped by its own frantic pace. Everything about it feels as if it has been designed and built by an AI programme, and that includes the (undoubtedly amusing) `grown up` gags for the older generation that are periodically spat out with the same algorithmic precision as everything else. (Although, oddly, these wised-up throwaway jokes are never allowed to acknowledge the fact that for most people, young and old, `trolls` are nasty mean people who infest social media. Part of what this film´s carapace of innocence is there for is to protect its audience against things like that.)The message of the first Trolls film was happiness and love; and it´s the message of this one too - specifically the importance of harmony and diversity. So why does everything in this film look and sound the same? Continue reading...