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Action
‧ PG-13 ‧ 2025
Simon Abrams
5 days ago
4 min read
Troll 2
“Troll 2,” a sequel to the crowd-pleasing 2022 Norwegian giant creature feature, doesn’t have nearly enough action, monster-related or otherwise, to justify its existence. Like its predecessor, it does a fine enough job of replicating the inclusive, family-friendly action-adventure template that Steven Spielberg and his associates at Amblin Entertainment helped turn into a formula for general-audience spectaculars.
Unlike its predecessor, “Troll 2” doesn’t have enough canned dramatic or comedic incidents to make it seem particularly eventful. This sequel sends the now-discredited troll expert Nora Tidemann (Ine Marie Wilmann) and a crack team of government functionaries after a giant, marauding troll and his estranged troll son. They fight, but not nearly enough to draw viewers into the movie’s polished but skimpy creature effects scenes. The human drama isn’t more compelling either, though it’s never so tedious that you can’t imagine it improving as it develops.
Unfortunately, to enjoy “Troll 2,” you have to enjoy spending time with Nora and her colleagues. These types of characters can, admittedly, be fun to hang around with, and the ensemble cast does a good enough job of embodying certain movie-friendly types. What really trips up this amiably cheesy B-movie is its uniformly generic dialogue, which makes it hard to care about stock types who, despite their superficial differences, all essentially sound alike. That’s more noticeable than you might think in a movie where Nora’s brought back one more time to help the Norwegian government’s ongoing experiments on the magical troll Jotun, or “Megatroll,” as Nora’s primary government contact Andreas (Kim Falck) calls him.
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Reviews
Troll 2
star ratingstar rating
Action
‧ PG-13 ‧ 2025
Simon Abrams
5 days ago
4 min read
Troll 2
“Troll 2,” a sequel to the crowd-pleasing 2022 Norwegian giant creature feature, doesn’t have nearly enough action, monster-related or otherwise, to justify its existence. Like its predecessor, it does a fine enough job of replicating the inclusive, family-friendly action-adventure template that Steven Spielberg and his associates at Amblin Entertainment helped turn into a formula for general-audience spectaculars.
Unlike its predecessor, “Troll 2” doesn’t have enough canned dramatic or comedic incidents to make it seem particularly eventful. This sequel sends the now-discredited troll expert Nora Tidemann (Ine Marie Wilmann) and a crack team of government functionaries after a giant, marauding troll and his estranged troll son. They fight, but not nearly enough to draw viewers into the movie’s polished but skimpy creature effects scenes. The human drama isn’t more compelling either, though it’s never so tedious that you can’t imagine it improving as it develops.
Unfortunately, to enjoy “Troll 2,” you have to enjoy spending time with Nora and her colleagues. These types of characters can, admittedly, be fun to hang around with, and the ensemble cast does a good enough job of embodying certain movie-friendly types. What really trips up this amiably cheesy B-movie is its uniformly generic dialogue, which makes it hard to care about stock types who, despite their superficial differences, all essentially sound alike. That’s more noticeable than you might think in a movie where Nora’s brought back one more time to help the Norwegian government’s ongoing experiments on the magical troll Jotun, or “Megatroll,” as Nora’s primary government contact Andreas (Kim Falck) calls him.
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