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Voice acting was never a problem for me in this movie. I don't think he's got the depth or range of someone like a Michael Shannon, as an example, but he's still better than most people would give him credit for. Say what you will about the guy, but he's turned into a pretty damn good actor. Anna Kendrick is great as is Justin Timberlake. This is another part of the film that screams B-team, the animation just isn't as strong as it was in the HTTYD franchise. And, while I complained about the animation being bright to distract the kiddies, it's still a solidly animated flick.
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The film, while not being exactly the most clever under the sun, does still have some entertaining and funny moments. The film isn't even what I would call to be bad because, as I mentioned earlier, there's peaks and valleys. I think it's the same thing here, even though there's no real story to speak of, so I don't know exactly what it was sabotaging.
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Though, in the case of Frozen, at least the story was pretty strong in the end, even if the great number of musical scenes sabotaged the movie left and right. It's got way too many damn songs for the story to really shine through. I think this movie suffers from exactly the same problem that Frozen suffered. For whom the movie was intended, a very young crowd, they only care about the happy visuals and the musical numbers. But, again, they just use the visuals and the music to make up for whatever flaws the film may have had. It's not what I would call a great story, or even a good one, but it's what they decided on going with. Would be queen, Poppy, and grouchy Branch go on a journey to save those who were taken. Bergen chef plans to use the Trolls to steal the throne from the king. Trolls escape, but are found and taken hostage 20 years later by a disgraced Bergen chef.
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The Bergens want to eat the Trolls since it's meant to make them happy. I say that because they hope to use pop songs and the colorful visuals in order to distract you from the fact that there's really not much to the actual movie. I don't wanna say that this is a sign of laziness, but it's awfully close to it. I think part of the reason I say this is because of the fact that the film is just so damn colorful and relies so much on musical scenes that use real-life pop songs and not just ones specifically written for this movie, like in Frozen.
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You can just sense the fact that the effort simply isn't as there as it would be in a How to Train Your Dragon or even a Shrek (even though the last two installments in that franchise sucked). I don't know how I can tell, but I can tell. Let's get this out of the way right now, this is a Dreamworks B-team effort to be sure. I don't know what it is about this movie, but it was just peaks and valleys. The best of them all, Kung Fu Panda 3, is only good at best. The films they've released since then are Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Kung Fu Panda 3 and this one. Those two are The Boss Baby and Captain Underpants, both of which came out fairly recently. Since Dragon 2, I've seen all their movies but two. They've had some really great stories on their hands, like with the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, but since the second installment in that franchise, I don't think Dreamworks has managed to make a great movie since. They're centered more on the comedy and if a great story comes out of that, then so be it, but it's not what they focus on. With Dreamworks, it's more the other way around. So you come for the comedy, but you stay for the characters and how they're developed. Don't get me wrong, Pixar's business model is to bring in as many people as well, but they still put in an A+ effort in trying to tell a strong story with emotional depth. Their filmography is certainly solid, but their brand has always been more about getting as much people to see their movies as possible. Pixar's main competitor, while a more prolific studio than Pixar, has never had the same stellar reputation. And I make the distinction, because there's many great animated films from all over the world that I haven't seen yet. The last true masterpiece we got from a North American animated movie, to me, was The Lego Movie and it's been three years. Don't even get me started on The Good Dinosaur, a B-team Pixar effort. Inside Out and Finding Dory were both great, great movies, but there's no denying that, at least to me, it fell short of Pixar's best flicks. You know, it's been a while since Pixar made a real masterpiece.