Troll (Netflix)

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

So Norway made another troll movie. It's basically Godzilla only with a troll. It's also basically a crappy American disaster movie, which I suppose makes a change from the slew of crappy* Norwegian disaster movies we've made recently. It's also straight to DVD Netflix without a theatrical release, which doesn't bode well in the best of times.

The CG is pretty decent and the scenery is nice. I suspect somewhere during the production a conversation like this occurred:

Producer: How's the movie coming along?
Director: Great! the CG is looking really good.
Producer: Good, good. And the script?
Director: Script? Uh...great! *whispers to an aide* Get the script for every crappy American disaster movie, run them through Google translate and call it a day.

Seriously, some times the dialogue and events felt so stilted and odd it was almost like they just made as literal a translation of some English line as possible. The characters and their backgrounds were flat and uninspiring, the dialogue clichéed in the worst way, people were dumb as f$+&, and the history reveal made no sense even in what was supposed to be a big monster/disaster movie.

The good bits are we got to see some nice nature, and seeing places I'm familiar with getting slightly roughed up was sorta fun. The troll looked fine. If you want trolls I recommend the far superior Trollhunter from 2010.

*I'm making assumptions here; I haven't watched any of them

[JoelF847]

Trollhunter was great! I didn't even realize this new Troll movie was something different at first. Then I thought maybe it was a related sequel or something, which it isn't.

But at least this new one is presumably better than Troll 2

[janwachter]

Thank you for your opinion. Haven't watched this movie yet. Now I have such a desire. I wonder what the plot is??

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

Norway wakes up a troll, which busts up some stuff before being put down.

Seriously, just go watch Trollhunter instead.