Surrounded by four kids and their Moms, this guy got shanghaied into seeing the flick as a birthday excursion for my eight year old granddaughter. The bonus by the way for being eight these days is no more car seats! Anyway, it was a fun afternoon, as the kids enjoyed themselves with their over-sized bucket of popcorn. The movie is certainly colorful, with a somewhat Cinderella flavor to it with the story of Bridget and her infatuation with Bergen King Gristle. Helping advance the cause is the eternally optimistic Troll Princess Poppy who's goal starts out as a rescue mission for the kidnapped Creek, surreptitiously hidden in Gristle's amulet. The 'true happiness' tome comes into play any number of times, but definitely as a cure for Troll Branch's malady, having lost his grandma once upon a time to an enemy Bergen. In all my years of troll lore, I've never come across a reference to a Bergen, so I don't know if that was made up for the picture or not, but I guess they had to come up with something for the bad guys. There's lots of cute stuff interjected into the story with things like the summer 'trollstice' and Lady Glitter Sparkle, and I had to chuckle at one point when I wanted to blurt out to Poppy - 'More cowbell'!
Review of Trolls
