The two trolls Poppy and Branch are increasingly close and over time they have become a couple. However, he has a secret past that she was unaware of and now it is coming back to light; Branch was in fact part of BroZone, Poppy’s favorite group also made up of her brothers Floyd, John Dory, Spruce and Clay. However, the band broke up during their last disastrous concert when Branch was still a child and he hasn’t seen anyone since. But now one of them is in danger. It’s about Floyd who was kidnapped by Velvet and Veener, two pop stars envious of his talent. Poppy and Brunch set out to reach him and free him. This will also be the opportunity to bring all the brothers together again.
Now in its third chapter, after the first in 2016 and the second in 2020, the film based on the Troll Dolls created by the Danish Thomas Dam in 1959 repeats the DreamWorks formula based on bright colours, songs and daring adventures.
The elements of the fairy tale are mentioned (the marriage between Brigida and Gristle) while on a narrative level Floyd’s imprisonment and his quest to free him have greater importance. In this choral dimension, this time excessively suffocated by too many songs that have the tone of temporary musical sketches, those who remain far too in the shadow are Poppy and Branch (voiced in the original version, like the other two, by Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake) who instead they have always been the driving force of history.
So in the same way the conflicts are not so clear and even the evil figures of the two pop stars Velvet and Veneer seem to carve out their own story apart and they could have been the most interesting characters if they had been given adequate space.
This time Walt Dohrn, who had directed Trolls with Mike Mitchell and Trolls World Tour with David P. Smith, signs the direction together with Tim Heitz and relies so much on the look, the atmosphere, even the charisma of his protagonists that perhaps he the illusion that they can move the story forward on their own.