It’s Trolls World
Troll the World Tour’, the newest Trolls movie, a musical comedy is now being screened at theatres in Colombo and island wide. This much awaited children and family movie is the directorial debut of Walt Dohrn based on the screenplay by Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Elizabeth Tippet, Maya Forbes, and Wallace Wolodarsky.
When the Queen of the Hard Rock Trolls tries to take over all the Troll kingdoms, Queen Poppy and her friends try different ways to save all the Trolls.
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- A journey of Trolls from a toy created by A poor Danish woodcutter to the silver screen
Poppy and Branch discover that they are but one of six different Troll tribes scattered over six different lands devoted to six different kinds of music: Funk, Country, Techno, Classical, Pop and Rock. Their world is about to get a lot bigger and a whole lot louder. A member of hard-rock royalty, Queen Barb, aided by her father King Thrash, wants to destroy all other kinds of music to let rock reign supreme. With the fate of the world at stake, Poppy and Branch, along with their friends, set out to visit all the other lands to unify the Trolls in harmony against Barb, who’s looking to upstage them all.
Created by Danish woodcutter Thomas Dam who could not afford a Christmas gift for his daughter Lila and carved first Trolls doll from his imagination in 1959, Trolls became world renowned as toys, cartoon, video game characters and animated movie stars. Demanded by the other children in the Danish town of Gjøl who saw Dam’s Troll Doll also known as ‘Dam Doll’. By 1960 under the name Good Luck Trolls, Trolls were popular throughout a number of European countries by 1960.
Trolls hit the toy markets in the United States becoming the biggest toy fads from 1963 to 1965. The original Dam Trolls with higher quality featured sheep wool hair and glass eyes. However the popularity of Trolls went down with an error in the copyright notice of Thomas Dam’s original product and there were cheaper imitations too.
Trolls became briefly popular again during the 1970s through the 1990s and were copied by several manufacturers under different names. In the 1990s, several video games and a video show were created based on troll dolls and in 2003, the Dam company restored the United States copyrights blocking unlicensed production. In 2005, the Dam company modernized the brand under the name Trollz, but it failed in the marketplace.
In 2013, the brand was bought by DreamWorks Animation, with an animated feature film called Trolls being released in 2016 and ‘Troll the World Tour’ is the second sequel in the series.
Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures, the
film features the voices of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Rachel Bloom, James Corden, Ron Funches, Kelly Clarkson, Anderson Paak, Sam Rockwell, George Clinton, and Mary J. Blige.
‘TROLL THE WORLD TOUR; is now being screened at Liberty by Scope Cinemas, Colombo City Centre, Empire, PVR cinemas, Majestic Ultra Cinema, Savoy –Colombo and Rajagiriya, and a number of other cinemas around the country.