"Trolls Holiday" is a 25-minute animated short film from very recently ago this year (2017) and this is a little add-on for the Christmas holidays that follows the successful 2016 Trolls full feature film. That one was nominated for an Oscar last year and this short sequel here also got a pretty nice deal of awards recognition already, mostly at the Annie Awards, the animation Oscars if you want to call them like that. The cast includes many names that voice-acted also on the full feature film, so it is really an impressive list of people for the most part. But still, I cannot really share the praise here. This under half an hour loses itself repeatedly in mostly forgettable music numbers and songs that stopped the film from developing a story line and plot that stays memorable whatsoever. It felt very disrupting to me. Plus I felt that the male trolls were totally underrepresented here, even if that female troll girl is definitely kinda charming and entertaining to watch. So overall, it is a work that you can simply here as an audio piece. Or better don't because the songs do so little. The animation was as good as I expected, but the story was never touching, relevant or at least interesting. It could have been if this was 25 minutes with just one song or so, but not the way they actually went for. Quite disappointing how much of a letdown this ended up to be. The already green-lit Trolls full feature film sequel will hopefully be better again. Please make it so. Final side-note to this one here: Director Joel Crawford will be the man in charge of the upcoming Croods sequel.
Trolls Holiday
2017
Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
Trolls Holiday
2017
Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
Keywords: musicalshort film
Plot summary
When the Queen of the Trolls, Poppy, finds out that the Bergens do not have holidays, she enlists help from her friends, Branch and the Snack Pack, to help her bring holidays to the Bergens.
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Inferior to the movie, lost in music
Enjoyed it to, total time because another HOME special included
The length is your typical 22/ 24 minutes but it has another Christmas movie tacked on. It has a low budget cartoon version of the characters of HOME discovering Christmas "Home For the Holidays" taking the total time to just over the hour mark. Didn't watch as HOME the animation was annoying after the quality and peppiness of trolls special
3 C's: Cute, Colorful and Charming!
I have watched this TV animated cartoon twice, once on its premier night (24 November) and again last night (5 December) and both times, it wasn't any longer than 25/30 min. IMDb website says it is 1 hour 12 min. Definitely not that long. But so eye-popping in color! I enjoyed this holiday cartoon so much, I had to get more by watching it twice. I would highly recommend it! But then again, I'm into the pastel and neon colors. And I'm also into DreamWorks Animated films.