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Trolls (2016)

Trolls poster
Directed by
Mike Mitchell
Genre
fantasy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 3,847 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two trolls named Poppy and Branch go on a journey to rescue their village from giant creatures called Bergens who eat trolls. It is an animated comedy with singing and dancing.

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What happens

Trolls is a 2016 American animated musical comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation, based on the Good Luck Trolls doll line. The film was directed by Mike Mitchell, written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, and stars the voices of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christine Baranski, Russell Brand, James Corden, Jeffrey Tambor, Ron Funches, Icona Pop, Kunal Nayyar, Quvenzhané Wallis, John Cleese, and Gwen Stefani. The film follows two trolls, Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake), who go on a quest to save their village from destruction by the Bergens, giant creatures who eat Trolls. Trolls premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on October 8, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 4, by 20th Century Fox. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $347 million against a $125 million budget. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Can't Stop the Feeling!". The film launched a franchise, which included two television specials, Trolls Holiday (2017) and Trolls: Holiday in Harmony (2021), two television series, Trolls: The Beat Goes On! (2018–2019) and Trolls: TrollsTopia (2020–2022), two sequels, Trolls World Tour (2020) and Trolls Band Together (2023), and six short films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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