Film review: Trolls Band Together is brash, fun and instantly forgettable

Trolls Band Together, directed by Walt Dohrn.

• Trolls Band Together 
• ★★★☆☆
• Cinema release

The animated movie Trolls Band Together (G) opens with an extended flashback to the halcyon days of Brozone, when brothers Branch (voiced by Justin Timberlake), Floyd (Troye Sivan), John Dory (Eric André), and Spruce (Daveed Diggs) were a pop sensation, only for creative differences to drive them apart at their peak.

Twenty years later, Branch gets a letter from Floyd, who has been imprisoned by ‘the pop-obsessed succubi’ Velvet (Amy Schumer) and Veneer (Andrew Rannells), whose chart-topping career is being fuelled by Floyd’s life force.

And so, urged on by his girlfriend Poppy (Anna Kendrick), Branch sets out on a quest to get the band back together and rescue Floyd before it’s too late.

If it ain’t broke, as they say, don’t go fixing that bright ’n’ bouncy Trolls appeal.

Aimed at a young audience, which will likely be transfixed by the relentlessly energetic cascade of colour, the movie frequently nods to its older viewers too, offering an affectionate homage to the boy bands of yore as Brozone belt out a number of pop classic mash-ups in their bid to achieve the holy grail of the perfect family harmony.

The cinematic equivalent of a sugar rush, Trolls Band Together is brash, fun and instantly forgettable.