covers familiar ground, enhanced with some catchy musical and visual flourishes. The peace-loving forest denizens who love nothing more than celebrating music return again to defend their beloved traditions in another colorful adventure, but it feels too much like we’ve been here, done this already.
, young Queen Poppy is settling into ruling her Troll village with the support of her best friends Branch and Biggie . Now that peace is restored, the Trolls are free to indulge their favorite pastimes of singing, dancing and hugging , establishing an auspicious reign for Poppy, who has assumed the throne from her father King Peppy .
Naturally for a Troll movie, their journey is punctuated with numerous song-and-dance numbers that cue up the various musical genres, and while these interludes may be catchy and colorful, they serve more to embellish than to advance the story. In the original film, the Trolls faced existential peril as the Bergens threatened to consume them all, but in the sequel the stakes are reduced to feuding over different musical traditions.