Once upon a time, the tribes lived together in harmony, each represented by different colored strings on a lyre. In case you didn’t realize it from the bubblegum overload “Trolls Just Wanna Have Fun” musical medley that reintroduces us to this world, it turns out that Poppy’s tribe represents the pop genre. To her shock, she discovers that there are five other troll tribes that represent various genres of music: classical, country, rock, funk and techno. This time around, eager-to-please Poppy (Anna Kendrick) is now the queen of the troll land. This cold open, and all the other backstory elements, are expressed via 2D animated jeans patches, which provides the film’s only unique and engaging artistic choice, while working as welcome respite from the plastic and overeager 3D animation. There are barely any references to the events from the first Trolls, and any recap that’s necessary for newcomers to grasp the ins and outs of the exuberant, saccharine, jukebox-musical-on-crack land of these living and breathing ’90s toys is handled with blink-and-you’ll-miss voice-over exposition. The plot works as sort of a soft reboot for the franchise. (Granted, “Better than Trolls” is a fairly low bar to reach.) It’s not as grotesque and convoluted as the first Trolls, and it does offer a simple, streamlined plot that the very young target audience can easily follow while being distracted by the acid-flashback-color-explosion aesthetic, but don’t expect anything remotely resembling a fresh and inventive sequel. Trolls World Tour takes the premise of Avengers: Infinity War, the world building of The Lego Movie, adds Hollywood Family Animation 101 themes about staying true to yourself while compromising enough to function in a diverse society, and calls it a day.
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