GiraffeDoor
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It's easy to see how this became a cult favorite.
I almost feel like a fool for being that kid who absolutely caught the cartoon when I was very little but was 30 before seeing the movie.
Of its time and yet timeless. The story of oddballs resisting normie tedium is nice but the appeal is the bachanalia of the macabre realized in actuality by puppets, make-up and animation. Stylishness is through the roof and reminds us that Tim Burton used to actually be a film-maker we were happy to support before, well, you know...
The cast is as full of stars as the night sky and there really is no movie quite like it.
I almost feel like a fool for being that kid who absolutely caught the cartoon when I was very little but was 30 before seeing the movie.
Of its time and yet timeless. The story of oddballs resisting normie tedium is nice but the appeal is the bachanalia of the macabre realized in actuality by puppets, make-up and animation. Stylishness is through the roof and reminds us that Tim Burton used to actually be a film-maker we were happy to support before, well, you know...
The cast is as full of stars as the night sky and there really is no movie quite like it.
More or less paint by numbers permutation on the quote unquote "family film" which half the family will hate.
The visual design is highly appealing in its juxtaposition of saturated Trolls with the earthen colors found in...well their also trolls but they clearly can't call them that.
There's a lot of sex appeal in some character designs and the explorations of how positivity is fine, but knowing it's OK to not be OK is admirable and timely.
The licenced musical numbers...well, you have to just decide that you want to love them.
Over well plotted and written for what it is but it's no classic int he making.
The visual design is highly appealing in its juxtaposition of saturated Trolls with the earthen colors found in...well their also trolls but they clearly can't call them that.
There's a lot of sex appeal in some character designs and the explorations of how positivity is fine, but knowing it's OK to not be OK is admirable and timely.
The licenced musical numbers...well, you have to just decide that you want to love them.
Over well plotted and written for what it is but it's no classic int he making.
More or less exactly what you expect it to be.
This does not begin promisingly but gets better and better as it progresses and it finds itself and develops some kind of relationship with its characters.
Even ignoring that it's a derivative work in the most literal sense it's still an unoriginal reworking of familiar fairytale tropes around the theme of prejudice which it handles in naïve and scholastic fashion.
Over time this becomes a more poignant and ambitious story of different kinds of people overcoming their *loathing* to find common ground.
The songs rather blend into one asides from those 2 that you've already heard. Sorry about that. The score has its moments though.
The reason to watch is all the other things along the way; the sets, the costumes, the architecture, boy I'd love to go to school there. The distinctly epicene attire feels like an alternative earth and the animal animation is amazing to look at. I especially love this library and the dance number in it...you'll see.
This does not begin promisingly but gets better and better as it progresses and it finds itself and develops some kind of relationship with its characters.
Even ignoring that it's a derivative work in the most literal sense it's still an unoriginal reworking of familiar fairytale tropes around the theme of prejudice which it handles in naïve and scholastic fashion.
Over time this becomes a more poignant and ambitious story of different kinds of people overcoming their *loathing* to find common ground.
The songs rather blend into one asides from those 2 that you've already heard. Sorry about that. The score has its moments though.
The reason to watch is all the other things along the way; the sets, the costumes, the architecture, boy I'd love to go to school there. The distinctly epicene attire feels like an alternative earth and the animal animation is amazing to look at. I especially love this library and the dance number in it...you'll see.