A few years after the first Troll’s appearance, the same teams gather again as another Troll appears and wreaks havoc.
Hollywood-style entertainment where you just accept everything that happens. Troll 2 is exactly what you expect it to be. Starting with a fictional Christian atrocity against the pagan creatures is only a parable of what the Christians did to the pagans when they spread the “love” in the country. Smart move, but it makes one wonder how they defeated the Trolls with swords back then, when in the present, with such advanced weaponry and tactics, they can’t. Mind-blowing, isn’t it? No, it is not. As said in the beginning, just accept everything, and you’ll be all right.
Troll (2022): https://kaygazpro.com/troll-2022-action-adventure-drama/ left a positive aftertaste despite the fact that it was considered mindless entertainment. It had some positive elements of Hollywood, and the fact that it was in Norwegian and set in the fjords gave a Godgilla-like experience of the popular Scandinavian myth, with a few biopolitical messages. Co-writer/director Roar Uthaug comes back with the leading trio, but Troll 2 has nothing new to offer. The viewers take the formulaic narrative as a matter of course, take in the light humour, face slap themselves with the incompetent politicians and their politics (like in real life), and enjoy some montage sequences with military-style music that indicates determination and precision. And then everything goes to hell.
There is one big positive, though. It is the entertainment you could use for less than two hours that will make you forget your problems and send you to bed. So, in that respect, it serves its purpose.
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