Intro
What's up bros, I'm Jonathan.
And I'm Caleb.
And we're a couple of bros on a mission to give you guys the most detailed movie reviews out there with as little bias as possible.
Welcome to the All Bros.
This week on the podcast, we got some weekly watches to go over with you guys.
One in particular, I'm so excited to just obliterate for how bad it is.
Can't wait to talk about it, I'm so excited.
Yeah.
What's up Sam?
Hello Sam.
And then after that, we'll jump right into our headliner of the evening, which will be our breakdown of Trolls Band Together.
Hell yes.
So Caleb, what do you say we get started?
I say let's do it.
Hey, this is Mikey T.
And the Grant.
And William.
And we are the Failing Hollywood Podcast.
But you're listening to the All Bros Podcast right now with our good friends Caleb.
And Jonathan Rose.
Yeah.
And they are the best movie podcast.
Second best.
Second best movie podcast.
Yeah.
Around.
Yeah.
So yeah, listen to these hot takes coming up.
I'll give them the number two trophy.
Number two.
Jumping right into weekly watches.
Caleb and I both, I feel, watched a decent amount this week.
We did.
I was freaking pumping these bad boys.
Especially Caleb.
He freaking like knocked out of the park.
Like, holy shit.
I know.
And I don't even think I got everything off the list.
Like, I think there's still like one or two that I'm missing.
Damn, dude.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
So anyway, with me, because I, yeah, I guess I will start.
So in preparation for us, or sorry, in preparation for this episode with us breaking down the third Trolls movie, I rewatched the first one because I haven't seen it since the frickin, since it came out, which was 2016, which is freaking insane that this movie is that old already.
Excuse me.
Oh, my God.
It doesn't feel like it's newer than that.
It does, right?
Yeah.
So rewatch this one.
So, yeah, I mean, honestly, it's just as fun as I remember.
It really is.
The Trolls movies are, they're the movies that like you, you can, I feel you could turn your brain off to.
They're very vibrant.
They're colorful.
The story is very simplistic.
The music's good.
Just it's nowhere on the lines of like, you know, Puss in Boots, The Last Wish when it comes to Dreamworks.
But I still have fun with these movies.
This, of course, especially the first one.
So, like, I love the characters of Poppy and Branch.
They're great.
Although I will, what I'm kind of confused about, and I don't know about you, Caleb.
At the end of this movie, Branch turns back or like his colors turn back into his regular, like full on, like very vibrant, vibrant bright colors.
And then they don't keep that with the next film.
Yeah.
Or, yeah, with the second or the third, like they're not as dim as they are in this one.
But like, what the hell?
Like, why did he go back to his emo phase?
Yeah.
Yeah, so, I mean, they keep his skin color, like they keep him that like that blue.
But his hair goes back to being black.
Yeah, like you couldn't have kept it dark blue.
I know, like it just continuity people.
Yeah, like, come on, Dreamworks.
What the hell?
You're better than this.
Yeah, so just yeah, like I genuinely had a fun time with it.
I hadn't seen it since 2016, like I said.
So I'm glad I rewatched it and it got me pumped for the second and third.
So I would actually give it a five dollar Tuesday.
Genuine, like on the big screen, the colors would pop so well.
The soundtrack would sound so good.
So this is one you would need a really good theatrical experience for.
I don't think you go into this with just anybody.
This is true.
This is very true.
I think this would make a killer sing along.
Oh, yeah, like it's kind of funny that like whenever they release them on like
Blu Ray, stuff like that, they always make it the sing along edition.
That's always the tagline for the physical release.
But they never put a sing along version in theaters.
Right.
It's so dumb.
It's not a thing anymore.
Like they don't do sing along releases in theaters anymore.
It's kind of bullshit.
True.
I'm sure losing money on that.
Yeah, because let's face it, not a lot of people want to sing in public.
I being one of them.
Yeah, I think that's a very special type of movie that you're able to do that with.
Like, I know that around Halloween time, they do a lot of viewings of Rocky Horror
Picture Show where it's sing along.
But I think it's because that movie has a cult following.
So it's I feel like that makes sense for films like that that have that kind of following
versus this.
This is just modern kids movie.
Yeah, that's fair.
But it's a good modern kids movie.
It is a very good kids movie.
So yeah, so first one, $5 Tuesday.
And so in preparation, watching the first one, I had to watch the second one, which I had
never actually seen.
I did not watch this one.
It first came out.
So this is my first time seeing Trolls World Tour.
And once again, genuinely, genuinely good.
I love that it really expands on the universe.
You get literally no Bergens.
And because, you know, on the first one, the villains are the Bergens and Trolls versus
Bergens.
That's the plot of the story.
But I like that in the second one, it is just fully based on just trolls.
That is all it's based on.
And just like the idea of like different different types of music and the trolls that are
associated with that, how they had like a falling out and then, you know, wanting to
get them all back together, both good and bad.
Just it was genuinely fun to watch.
Like I said with the first one, these are nothing these movies are nothing special.
They're nothing groundbreaking.
But I never was bored.
The hour and a half flew by.
I freaking love that all of these are clocked in an hour and a half.
They never go above that.
And for trolls, I think that's perfect.
Absolutely.
I think any more would be a little bit much.
But an hour and a half is also the perfect time for younger kids.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, like, feel exactly how I did with the first one.
Just the colors were so vibrant.
The colors were so vibrant, the story is actually pretty damn good for.
And I'm not even going to say for a trolls movie, because like even for like any Dream
Works movie, I feel that like everyone like I think that they hate on the trolls movies
just to hate on them because they're like, oh, they're so just deemed a children.
That's all they are.
And like so many.
Yeah.
But like so many people will compare these movies to like the two Boss Baby movies.
And I'm just like, are you freaking kidding me?
Boss Baby freaking sucks.
In my opinion, that is like the lowest of the low when it comes to Dream Works.
Trolls is nowhere near that.
I wouldn't say Boss Baby is the lowest.
Like I enjoy Boss Baby to a point.
But I mean, I do not.
Trolls is just solid, good times.
Like, I mean, you got the killer soundtrack.
I mean, that's what I freaking watch it for.
That's why I enjoy watching it for.
Yeah.
Like obviously, when I have to watch it, I like not saying like that's not anything bad
against the movie.
That's just I do have to turn it on quite a bit.
Oh, okay.
All right.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
But solid movie.
Super solid movie.
Super solid sequel.
And so it was a nice way to get prepared for this third one, which as you know, is our
headliner of the evening.
So I'm on the same level as the first one.
Five dollar Tuesday because it's just as good.
Yeah, like I said, like I said, the whole trilogy is just consistent.
And I love that.
This trilogy, I would compare to another one of Dreamworks, Madagascar, where all three
to me are genuinely good.
They're not they're not like great.
Oh, my God.
Excuse me.
They're not groundbreaking.
They're not like on like top tier level of Dreamworks, but they're still good.
But they're they're good for what they set out to do.
They actually have I feel really good characters.
I feel Poppy and Branch are really, really good characters.
And just I don't know what what they set out to do with with these movies.
I think that they accomplish very much so.
Yeah.
So that is the second one for me for Weekly Watch.
And then the last one, unfortunately.
So for anyone that knows or for anyone that has listened to this podcast for quite a while,
you would know that when it comes to real life serial killers, I find John Wayne Gacy
the most interesting.
So I try to watch everything and I mean everything that is put out on him, whether it be
true crime documentaries, movies like this, true crime documentaries.
Excellent.
Solid.
All of them.
The movies, on the other hand.
OK, some are better than others.
This one was God awful.
You know, I really that bad, dude.
Oh, my God.
I get why someone would someone would want to turn a real life crime like Gacy's into
their own horror movie and also, you know, change some things a little bit.
But can you at least get some things right?
Because literally one of the first one of the first two things like this wasn't even
10 minutes into the movie that pissed me off that they got wrong.
Now, one, the kid that is watching him from across the street after Gacy moves in, he's
like, oh, yeah, he just moved in with his mother and sister.
Gacy never lived with his mother and sister.
It was just his mother.
When he moved into North was it North Park Township?
Yeah, God, I should get the I should know these names.
When he moved there, the only people that were with him were his mom when he first moved
in.
And then once he got remarried, his wife and her kids moved in and then, you know, his
mom decided to move out.
But anyway, just he knew his sister never lived at 8213 was Summerdale.
So that was one. And speaking of 8213 was Summerdale, his address, they got the freaking
dimensions wrong of the house.
And I think they only did it to add dramatic effect because there are multiple shots where
you see one of his victims crawling on the floor and him walking down the stairs, very
intimidating and shit like that.
Whereas in real life, he only had a one story house.
I was going to say, like, even I know that. Yeah. So you just did that to, like, do scenes
like that. Like, that's freaking stupid.
Yeah, dude, that is absolutely something that, like, like when you started talking about
stairs, I was like, I like it was starts in the thing.
I'm just like, wait a minute.
Those pictures didn't like the pictures that I saw didn't look like there were stairs in
that house.
Yeah, no, it was just like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like,
yeah, no, it was just a one level house.
Um, yeah, so there was that.
And then every. Oh, my God.
I mean, I hope these other these actors got better work or or if they're actually better
actors, because the plot that we get here with them is so stupid with the the kid that
lives across the street from Gacy, living with his parents. He sees some stuff and he believes that
Gacy is hiding people, he's hiding bodies under his house because none of the guys that he brings
into his house ever leave. Shocker, his parents don't believe him. Even when he tries to go to
his friends, they're just like, oh just leave Mr. Gacy alone. He's fine, he's so normal.
Just no. And then freaking throughout like at points when he's just Gacy,
like he laughs uncontrollably like when he's like on top of one of his victims. But when he puts on
that cloak, wow, when he puts on the pogo outfit, they make him just turn into the freaking Joker.
Like laughs uncontrollably, just no. Gacy was not like this.
Dude, this would be a hilarious episode of Gacy Gazette if you were to talk about this movie
with Brainface. Oh my god, I would have so much fun. Yeah. Oh god, that'd be so much fun.
I should try to convince him, but I know he's so busy right now. Because I know, I think they're
like almost done with their Gacy documentary, which I'm so excited to see. Oh, that's gonna be
the shit. They posted, he posted a picture of like the actual sign of the, oh my god,
nor, why do I always mess this name up? Nor, I swear it wasn't, it was, I think was like the
apartments that his mom lived in. And so he actually posted a picture that he was there,
like doing interviews or some shit. Like he is really going everywhere that Gacy was in Chicago
in this freaking insane, so cool, or, or like, I don't know, I don't know. Like, I don't know.
Chicago in this freaking insane, so cool, Illinois, sorry. Just, oh my god, it's so freaking insane.
And for anyone, you know, watching this live stream, as you can see, for me wanting to talk
about this movie, I had to wear a, you know, a Gacy shirt. Because I had to, you know, I was so
excited to bash this movie, even though, you know, it's a small segment weekly watch, I don't care.
I had to let people do not watch this movie. If you want to know anything about Gacy,
do not watch, he was not like this. They, they do nail that he was a regular average Joe guy.
Because he very much was that on the surface, but of course, you know, underneath,
we all know who John Wayne Gacy is. But just he, he did not, he was not the freaking Joker.
That was not Gacy. And just there, there's so many other problems that I have with this movie. Like
there is one, sorry, one more thing. There is a shot that they do as downtown Chicago.
They have the camera, literally this upfront to the actors, just so you can't tell that there's
modern cars in the background. That that's the only reason I can give as to why the camera is
that damn close. I am more tough. So Sam's gonna piss me the hell off. I shouldn't be getting this
pissed off about a real life serial killer. But when he's not portrayed the way that he is,
the way that he was, how just how conniving, evil monster he was. And like, I get it. This is, this
is, this is supposed to just be based on the true story. They changed some stuff to turn it into a
horror movie, but at least get the true simple facts, right? The stuff that people really should
know about Gacy. At least get that damn, at least get that right. Dude, that's the stuff that's like
scarier. Like why are you trying to Hollywoodize it? Like just do like a fricking reenactment would
be fricking scary as shit. Like for anyone's that, for anyone that has seen a Dahmer, the monster
Dahmer series, if you watch the final episode where you get the connection between Dahmer and Gacy,
and you saw one of Gacy's victims literally perfect. They portrayed that so perfectly.
That is how John Wayne Gacy was. Gosh, this would be a really great
discussion. Do we need to reach out to Grayface and tell him when we, when he releases the
documentary, like you should have like tell him like we'll release it or we'll do
an episode about it. An episode of Gacy Gazette with him. Oh, that'd be so fricking cool.
That'd be the shit. I don't know if I pointed it out already. Like the only positive of this movie
is the guy that played Gacy. Like he actually, he looks like him like genuinely. Like they actually
picked a guy that, cause like I feel like in some, like they made him way too skinny or way too big.
I feel that this guy was like for the most part, like perfect. Statue. Dude, even what I saw of
him, like it was his fricking actor picture on IMDB. I was like, holy shit. Yeah. Like they nailed
that cast. He looks like John Wayne Gacy. I just wish that he could be in a better movie.
Cause I feel in the right, in the right movie or, you know, limited series, whatever he could
actually do a genuinely good job pulling off John Wayne Gacy. Do you think like his acting would have
like needed help or do you think it was, it was a, no, I don't, I think it was a writing problem
because when there are scenes where like he's actually just genuinely talking to like the,
the kid and his parents, the acting is actually still good. It's just when they tell him, oh,
he go full on joker here. Then I'm just like, Oh my God. But anyway, so I'm sure it's
not surprising whatsoever after that long rant that I would give this a do not bother.
Because it, it does not understand Gacy at all. It just, it fails in what someone should know of
how much of a conniving evil monster John Wayne Gacy was. He was not the joker. He was not that.
That is, that is the best way that I can sum up this movie. They try and try to make him out to be
the joker. They try to make him out to be the joker. They try to make him out to be the joker.
They try and try to make him out to be the joker. He was not that.
Yeah. And the uncontrollable laughter that is very reminiscent of just the walking Phoenix's joker
movie. Dude, I'm sure do they probably took, took that and ran with it. There's like, okay,
walking Phoenix joker, John Wayne Gacy, let's make a horrible with that. Go, got this.
Shit. But Caleb, what did you watch this week?
This week I watched a bunch of shit. Starting off, I re, this was a rewatch for me. I rewatched
warrior. This movie is fantastic. It is so well done. Like the, this, like the, the combat,
like there's, there's not a lot that they get wrong about this. In terms of like the training
and stuff. Like all of it is, it's just, it's super intense and it's, I don't know how to explain it.
Like it, it is a, it's a, more or less it's a boxing movie. I mean, I know it's like MMA, but
fighting is fighting. So it's, it's just kind of one of those situations, but it's cool. So
the premise is that there's some multimillionaire that he's just like bored or whatever. And so he
creates this, this fighting competition called Sparta, where he, where the winner of this
tournament gets $5 million. And typically in, when it comes to fighting, you, you have like the one
big battle and then it's like a few months and then you have another one and then a few months,
like it's kind of that, like they cycle it out a little bit, right? Just so you can get like healing
and rest and training in between your, your, your matches. So he was like, all right, well, let's do
this where it's these hardcore tournament style fights like every day. So it, so it's like they,
they just kind of work their way through the roster and it like, you could have a fight like two,
I think they had one where it was like two fights in a row on the same night, like for some of the
people. And it's supposed to be a situation of like stamina or whatever. And it's interesting
because everyone kind of has their own, like between the two brothers, they each have their
own reasons for wanting to win. Tom Hardy's character is a Marine that went AWOL. And while
he was like running away or whatever, he saw some Marines that were in danger. He went and like
rescued them. So he's viewed as like a war hero when he's like, when he comes back,
just because of what he, what he did. And he has, he made a promise to his combat partners,
combat partners family that he would like provide for them. So he's wanting to like
basically donate all the money to her or to his buddy's family because his buddies like passed away.
And then Joel, yeah, Joel Edgerton's or Edgerton's character,
he's like broke. Like he's a physics teacher and he's like on the verge of losing his house.
And so that's what the five million would go towards is paying off his house.
And whatnot. So like I said, really good motivations, but like it's a really
well character driven movie with a good focus on like the, the fighting. And they do,
a great job with the fighting. Like it's super well choreographed and in everything.
Okay. I'll just take this one out.
Yeah. It's, it's a great movie, which is exactly why I'm going to be giving this a full price ticket.
Hell yeah.
The next one that I watched is the Hill. So this is the story of this kid who has a degenerate
who has a degenerative bone disease, who is apparently like one of the greatest hitters in
baseball. And it's a story of his struggle growing up with a, with his father being a preacher
and pushing, like trying to limit him in a sense, like telling him what he can and can't do,
what his bones are capable of handling and what they're not. It's, it's a little overacted.
It is, is walking a fine line of being a hallmark movie. Oh damn. Yeah. I mean, it's cool for like,
if you're into like the whole sports history stuff, but his, is I, like I said, nothing too,
too special. So I'm, I'm giving this a nothing better to do because this is,
honestly, it's background noise. It's I, maybe it's just because I wasn't, I'm not in a baseball.
I think if anyone's into learning like sports history, this would be interesting to them.
Anyone else, it's just, like I said, it's background noise. It's a borderline hallmark film.
Okay. Damn. Yeah. The next one I watched was big George Foreman. This one was actually really good.
They talk about the struggle of like George Foreman and in his career.
So, I mean, you don't much about George Foreman or you just mostly know about his grills.
Mostly just his grill. Mostly the grills. Yeah. So, so here, here's like just a quick summary. He
was constantly getting into trouble as a, as a kid. And so he joined the job core
and they were trying to teach him skills and stuff to become a productive member of society.
And he ended up getting in trouble with them because some dude sold his shoes and he went and
like beat the kid up or some shit or like chase the kid down. And one of the counselors or
people in charge there, they
or he saw like the potential for him to be in boxing, thought it would be a good outlet to
get all that anger out. He ends up freaking picking up boxing really quick, ends up becoming
an Olympic level boxer. And he's like, I'm not going to be a boxer. I'm going to be a
wrestler. Ends up becoming an Olympic level boxer. Like he wins the gold and the Olympics
in like almost a record amount of time. Because he, I think when he won the Olympics, he had
only been boxing for a year. Oh, wow. Yeah. And then he went on to become the heavyweight champion
of the world. Super successful and whatnot. And then he went and fought Muhammad Ali and got his
ass handed to him like five ways to Sunday. And so like that kind of like killed his fighting career.
And he was like continuing to try and fight, but he was just, he kept losing. And there was one fight
in particular, he walked out of the ring, but I guess his heart stopped or something. And so he was
like, he was only like 28 years old, but his heart gave out. So he like was dead. And then he like
comes back and then he's had like this big spiritual awakening and becomes, goes to become a preacher,
runs his own church and everything and opens up a youth center, which is cool. So he's actually
approached by someone from his congregation about like training their young men to become
like training their grandson. And he's like, no, I'm not here for I don't box anymore. And turns it
down. But then he recognizes that that kid was on the news, because he got caught up in like gang
activity. Like a week after that whole discussion, and he felt like horrible about it. So he's like,
well, if I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this right. He opened up a youth center where they
train for boxing and whatnot. The person managing his money made some like really bad investments.
And so he ended up becoming broke. They were on the verge of losing the the youth center.
When he's like, all right, well, I'm going to pick up boxing again, and become the heavyweight
champion again. And he was at this time, he was like 40. So he was like, at the age, most people
are like, long done. Yeah. So he Yeah, he starts training again, gets his whole his old team back.
And like he was fighting with rage. Like, during the first part portion of his career. And he's
like, nope, I'm fighting different. Like I'm fighting with God on my side and all this and
ends up becoming the heavyweight champion again. They have like a match that like brings in
millions of dollars. So the and he like puts it all into the youth center so it can like stay open
ever, practically. And yeah, and so the they were just wanting to break even, like I think they were
only looking for like a couple million for that the HBO fight. And it ended up bringing like
tens of millions of dollars in town. Yeah, frickin crazy. And then he's like, yeah, so I mean,
we got all this and then the guy he just like kind of like grazes over it. But he's like, yeah,
so like you have some other investments like that commercial you did for those grills is doing
really good. And I'm just like, gosh, I want to know how he got into the grills. But they kind
of skip over that and talk about like the rest of his his life and everything. It's it's a good movie.
It's a super solid movie. So I'm I'm giving this one a five dollar Tuesday. Like this is one I would
really like to see on the big screen. Nice. The next film I watched is called Pain Hustlers.
Yeah, so this has Emily Blunt and Chris Evans in it. And it's Yeah, it's a frickin opioid crisis
movie. And how frickin shady that business is. And I gotta say it really aggravated me.
And like in a way that I know it was supposed to. OK. They don't I will say they try to glamorize
like what they do. And like in terms of like the the con more or less. So they make like thousands
of dollars off of doctors prescribing a medication. And that's like the frickin gist. So they're
trying to convince doctors to prescribe something to people like I think they said off of one
patient being subscribed or prescribed a certain drug. They get paid in terms of their commission.
It's like forty thousand dollars a week. Like super it's like crazy profitable and it's super
shady. And they're like but it's not illegal. It's not illegal until you start pushing the
doctors to prescribe it to people that don't need it. And it's yeah. And as like I think they
like I think they talk like the drug that they are pushing had fentanyl as one of the ingredients
and is supposed to help for pain management for cancer patients. But then they started pushing
it for like minor headaches. And so once they started doing that then it became illegal. And
then this I mean the story is frickin crazy. I don't know if it it was in the based off of a true
story list on Netflix. But I don't know if this was like an actual company or whatever. They did
just show a bunch of examples where that shit happened. Like at the end they just showed like
news clips and whatever. OK. But pretty well acted. Super interesting. Like I said Emily Blunt and
Chris Evans frickin power powerhouse team. And I think this came out last year too. So it's a
newer film. Wasn't bad. Cool. But yeah I'm giving this one a stream it. Sweet. And that is the
last thing that I watched this week. OK. Hell yeah. As far as I'm aware.
I do want to point out really quickly I made a big boo boo and I'm going to call myself a true
dumbass for this. Norwood Park Township is the area that Gacy lived. That's where his house was
located. Not his mom's apartment. I feel really dumb. How did I forget that. I don't know.
Yeah I feel really stupid for that. Great face if you're listening please don't hate me for that.
But my opinion still stands. Do not watch Gacy serial killer next door. It is awful.
Oh. But anyway. Caleb what do you say we get. Oh my God. What do you say we jump right into our
headliner. I say let's do it. All right. So like I said earlier this week's headliner
will be our breakdown of the third Trolls movie Trolls Band Together. So Caleb want to let
everybody know how we break down movies on this podcast. I would love to. If you are new to our
breakdown system we have split movies into eight different categories that we individually score
to come to a final All Bros letter grade. The eight categories that we score are story. Writing
writing acting character development effects. But with this movie we're going to be talking
about the animation music the costumes but with again animated movie we're going to be talking
about the character design and then we are going to get our own personal score at the very end.
All of those numbers get magically added up and spit through our algorithm and give us a letter
grade to compare this movie to others of a similar grade. So if you have not seen Trolls Band Together
we are going to be posting that spoiler warning now. So if you listen beyond this point
and anything is spoiled for you it is your own damn fault. Yep. Yeah. So now we will begin our
favorite segment that we like to call reading with Rose. All right. An infant branch and his
four older brothers John Dory Spruce Clay and Floyd perform as a boy band called Brozone.
When their clashing egos prevent them from performing the perfect family harmony
a powerful ability that trolls can achieve when they are in complete sync the brothers argue and
break up the band. Branch is left alone to be raised by his grandmother Rosie Puff.
Did they ever actually say her name. I don't know if they did. OK. I love that grandma though.
Oh she's amazing. Dude I freaking like she's I forget the line that she says she like when they
kind of do the cut to her and she's like oh like like I play for the love of the game but I stay
for the money. Yes. I love that. So good. I love shit like that dude.
In present day about a month after preventing the rock apocalypse branch and Poppy attend
Bridget and Grissel's wedding in Bergentown. They are interrupted by John Dory who reveals
that branches closest brother Floyd has been captured by velvet and veneer to Mount Ragen
teenagers who wish to be pop stars. The siblings have imprisoned Floyd in a diamond perfume bottle
which they used to extract his essence and improve their singing although the process could eventually
kill him. As the perfect family harmony is the only thing that can destroy diamond branch
reluctantly agrees to help John Dory find their brothers and rescue Floyd. Along with Poppy and
Tiny Diamond they set out in John Dory's armadillo like portable van named Rhonda.
They find spruce at the vague at the vacay island resort where he has changed his name to Bruce and
started a family. Bruce is reluctant to help until his wife and 13 kids convince him to do so.
The group later finds clay and an abandoned Bergen miniature golf course and have inhabited by a
hidden colony of pop trolls who did not know that the Bergens are no longer their enemies.
Having been separated from the other pop trolls when they when they fled the final
trollstice. The hidden troll colony's leader Viva reveals herself to be Poppy's long lost sister.
At first Poppy is delighted but the visit turns sour when Viva refuses to believe the Bergens
have changed and tries to stop Poppy's group from leaving the golf course. They manage to escape
thanks to clay and Poppy and Viva separate with broken hearts. Meanwhile velvet and veneer continue
to strip Floyd of his essence. Velvet reveals that she forged Floyd's handwriting and sent a note to
to John Dory in order to bait Floyd's brothers to come and rescue him. Furthermore velvet and
veneer's assistant crimp invents shoulder pad suits that enhance the extraction which the siblings
plan to use when they capture all of Brozone. The trolls make it to Mount Rages but once again
argue and fail to reach perfect family harmony. When his brothers decide they will split up again
after saving Floyd, Branch scolds them for abandoning their family and still treating him like a baby
reminding them that he lived his whole life alone after their grandmother got eaten.
Branch, Poppy and Tiny locate Floyd on their own but velvet and veneer capture John Dory, clay and
Bruce making a rescue even more difficult. Branch and Poppy confront velvet and veneer when they
start mingling with a crowd of fans prompting them to drive away in their limo. During the ensuing
chase velvet and veneer begin using the shoulder pads to extract the essence from Branch's brothers
in order to put on a show. Branch and Poppy are soon helped by Viva who joined forces with Bridget
and Gristle after they stumbled onto the golf course during their honeymoon. Seeing that Floyd
is just about out of essence, Branch tells his brothers that they all simply need to put aside
their egos and work as a team. They along with Poppy and Viva perform the perfect family harmony
and break free of their prisons just as Floyd loses the last of his essence but he is quickly
revived. Veneer who had been second guessing velvet's machinations
publicly confesses their crimes simultaneously enraging his sister and sending themselves to
prison. The trolls return to Vacay Island and witness Brozone's comeback concert joined by
Kissmint another band branch. Kissmint could they have like tried to like make it sound like they
played to like make it sound like in sync? Oh no that's what it was.
Yeah it's like why are you guys playing with us like that? Yeah. We know it was in sync you
losers. We all I just imagine the the the when they were thinking about you know like the ideas
for a Trolls 3 and they're like okay how about like something with a boy band? They're like okay
and what if we can convince in sync to get back together just for this one movie and to release
one song after so many years? F yes.
They're joined by Kissmint another band branch was once a part of later Poppy and Viva join
Brozone under branch's proposal as honorary members. I was so ready for him to propose to
freaking Poppy and them get married. I'm like oh perfect perfect ending to the trilogy but
at least it was admitted that they are boyfriend and girlfriend so I'll take that. Yeah I think
that's about as good as we're gonna get for now. Yeah. Oh is that it? Oh yeah that's it sorry.
Okay cool. Oh man. This movie was fun. It really was. Like you could I feel you could say that
about all three Trolls Trolls movies. Just the the stories may be simplistic but who who gives
a shit? These movies are just so much fun. This one especially this might be my favorite one
honestly because yeah the idea of branch being a part of a boy band breaks up so many years later
they have to come back together and you know it's also an excuse to have an ending where in sync
also gets to come back together. Can we also talk because I was thinking about this you know like
the people that played branches brothers those actors great. How would you have felt though if
instead of at the end they say oh you know branch wasn't only in brozone he was in another band
or a boy band. How would you have felt if the the brothers in brozone were played by the in sync
members instead of the ending that we got where they were just another band? I would have almost
preferred that right like I kept hearing like Eric Andre's voice coming from the brothers. I'm like
okay so is he like the only one that's not played by a member of in sync but yeah so it wasn't until
like the end that it was revealed. I'm like ah that sucks. Yeah I mean I feel like everyone from
in sync like has dabbled a little bit in acting. Yeah I think so I'm pretty sure. But don't
get me wrong I mean it was cool that they actually got in sync back together just just for this
this movie and to release that one song. Yeah I mean I wouldn't like if even if they didn't do
that I would have preferred if they did something where maybe in sync were the singing voices
of his brothers. That's fair. I mean because obviously like Eric Andre's not freaking singing
most of that shit. Yeah I mean I'm I mean I hope Daveed Diggs is singing because it sounded like
him. Yeah I mean I figured like he might and Kid Cudi did. I don't know it did sound like Eric Andre
but they might have like very much um what's the word auto-tuned a lot of his voice. Maybe or maybe
he's just a great singer and we were sounding like assholes. I know maybe. There wasn't on
anything on IMDB that's distinctive like um
that he had like a singing voice right. I don't think so.
The only other thing I've seen Eric Andre in his freaking jackass forever.
Yeah I'm just looking real real quick see if there's anything that's like singing voice
or if uh what John Dory has another. No it doesn't seem like it.
All right. So it wasn't um
I don't know what else is there to say. I mean I will say I did like um that uh we uh
what's the word. So I like that you bring you brought back Gristle and Bridget and this one
because I will fully admit I did miss them in the second one. So I was glad to see them back. Same.
Honestly I was totally fine that we don't get to see them. I mean I think it's like
honestly I was totally fine that we don't get to see a lot of the other trolls from the first two
movies that we've come to know. I would like I was totally fine that uh when they go on this
journey that it's just um Poppy, Branch, and Tiny Diamond. Those are the only three that
come from the first two first two movies. And I found Tiny Diamond annoying as hell in the
second one. I loved him in this one actually. Dude same. He was really good in this. Um
yeah just like they do a really good job of um I feel getting them all back together. Um the the
story I feel it makes sense. It's very simplistic. Like that is one thing that I will give troll
troll movies. They're very simplistic stories but that shouldn't knock down the movie because
they're told very well despite that. Um and it just all it just all made sense that you know
because of you know how close Branch is with uh oh my god uh I'm horrible with names. Floyd,
um Shocker. He'd be the one that um is uh kidnapped and Velvet and Veneer use him to uh uh help their
voices and then the other three include uh with Branch you know have to band together and save him.
That was really good. I especially like because um I thought that um was it
uh the one with the green hair or was it it was green hair right or was it yellow?
Uh I think I know you're talking about and I think it was the it was green.
Was it clay? I think it was clay. Okay I was expecting there to be like such a huge he was
gonna make such a huge fuss about joining them you know like being like oh no no it will never
work that that's stupid no I'll never join you guys like instantaneous when they bring it up.
I'm like okay you know what that actually surprised me um so you know what kudos to this movie for
surprising me with its uh character direction. Dude the only thing I wish that they would have
actually this is more of a character design problem than anything. I found the the characters a little
hard to follow because like initially because it's like we only get to see him for a really short
time at the beginning and then their their design changed a lot by the end. Yeah dude like seriously
like the only one that or when they're reintroduced yeah the only one that's consistent is John Dory.
Yeah pretty much like literally the only thing that changed about him was his vest.
Yep exactly. Which you know what I'm not knocking um I actually liked that um the yet of uh clay
and um Bruce uh definitely had huge changes uh to their characters. Yeah and I'm not against like
the big changes. Yeah no it worked it definitely made sense because like usually when you know you
see bands break up and they're just like oh yeah let's get the band back together when they're
doing these kind of montages of getting that certain member it always has to be like oh my
god you've changed so much like what happened to you like you weren't you're not even recognizable.
It's a stereotype with this kind of stuff and I'm not knocking it it makes sense but
definitely nothing new there. Yeah this was definitely one of those get the band back together
type movies and I mean we all know how those freaking go. Yeah like it it's almost like
formulaic at a certain point where it's just like oh well hey I think I found this guy we're getting
the band back together musical number and then the band's like we're getting the band back together
musical number like and then after the end he's like I'm in. Yep. Like it's it's basically a heist
movie with a musical number in between. Oh yeah that's a good way to. Yeah I mean but despite
the simplicity of it I do think it was still like you said really really fun. How do what did you
think of Velvet and Vanir as the villains? I actually liked them. I do too. They're like
they're the the people I I hate to like. Right yeah. But I found them to be like so funny. Yeah
I mean we'll get into that with acting but yeah the the two that they picked to play them perfect
like so so good. Yeah I honestly would have almost liked to see more of them. Dude right same. They
were so interesting it was it was it was crazy. Dude like any clip that I saw I thought they were
going to be annoying but I'm like they're just so endearing. They are. But I liked it. I liked them
a whole joke about uh we grew we grew up poor we deserve this. We lived in the suburbs.
We didn't. Our parents were dentists. Yeah it's like yeah but nobody liked us. Yeah I freaking
love that. Gosh and I will be addressing that in writing but yeah I freaking loved that that little
bit of dialogue. That was so funny and honestly I think those two I I'm feeling I I know the the guy
I don't know him by name but Amy Schumer was a freaking perfect fit for that character.
The person you're thinking of is Andrew Rannells. Yes I recognize his voice. He has a very distinct
voice. He does. And I have seen him in quite a bit of live action stuff. But yeah love his voice
and it works so well like just in contrast to Amy Schumer's. It did yeah. So yeah so where are you
sitting with uh with story? Um just like super solid story. Um I guess okay not super solid. It's
like it's not a generic story but like it it it perfectly fits for a Trolls movie. Um like I said
it's not a bad thing. It has a lot of pieces but enough of a like that Trolls twist on it that makes it interesting.
Yeah there that's a perfect way to um sum it up. So I think I think I'm gonna be on 84.
I am actually just a hair below you at an 82. Hell yeah. All right next up we got writing.
Brow there were some sneak attack jokes in there. Like they they I'm not gonna say I feel like there's
been better writing in other movies uh or in like the other Trolls movies. Like the humor it hits. Yeah but
not as well as I feel it typically like it typically does. Like this is one of the the weaker scripts
where I feel there was more funny about like one and two than this one. But there were like the ones
like the little the tiny like I said the sneak attack jokes were fantastic. Yeah I yeah I'm
definitely agree with you there. Yeah like I like the the one that came from the grandma the like I
play for the love of the game but I stay for the money. I freaking love that. Like I laughed so freaking
hard and then the uh and then like what we were just talking about with Velvet and Veneer being
like you want to go back to like where we had practice and stuff like that. Like I was like
like you want to go back to like where we had practically nothing. Then the please sir can I
have some more? And then it just jumps to like like our parents were dentists and then jumped back to
the suburbs and they're just like how was school today? Stop attacking me!
Like I I don't know what what it was about that joke. It was it was so good. Yeah it no it really
was. Like you said lots of sneak attack jokes. Yeah like they came out of nowhere. I can't remember
there's a part where um Poppy and Branch are um this is like towards the end when they're climbing
up with their you know like sticky hands and Tiny Diamond says something about you know carrying him
but I can't remember the full joke. I remember freaking like like that that caught me off guard
too. I'm like okay that was that was actually funny. Yeah but I can't remember. It was it the
freaking the pacifier? Yeah well yeah. Oh my gosh dude that was hilarious. That was that was so good.
When Branch is driving and he's just like all right Tiny Diamond hit me. What are you talking about man?
Like that freaking thing. I know and he's just like don't you do me dirty like that and he's like
all right fine and tosses it to him. Like dude perfect. Yeah. I think that was it that was sold
by everyone in that situation. It was. So well done. Um when John Dory first shows up at uh Bridget
and Grissel's wedding um I can't remember I swear Poppy um when she finds out that it's him
or maybe it's in another scene where she's like oh yeah you're you're the old one you're the like
she's literally like saying all these things except for he's like no no no I was known as the leader.
Yeah. Yeah she was saying oh you know you're the old one you're the bland one you're like damn girl
he gets it. Yeah no joke. He got freaking roasted. Seriously. Yeah I mean the jokes were good. I
I don't think they're on the same story as or at the same level as the story though.
That's yeah that's fair um. Are you sitting? Um
I would probably be I'd probably be uh
uh I'd probably be an 80. It did not quite crack 80 for me. It's a little bit lower
for me so I'm putting it at 79. That's completely fair. Yeah. All right next up we got acting.
Uh so going through this cast we have Anna Kendrick who voiced Poppy,
Justin Timberlake who voiced Branch, we got Eric Andre who voiced John Dory which is one of uh
Branch's brothers. Uh let's see we got David Diggs who voiced Spruce or or the artist formerly
known as Spruce now goes by Bruce. Yeah you got to give uh Clay respect for um actually um
actually um sticking with that. It's fair. I know I love how he kept like thanking like thank you.
Thank you Clay. Uh speaking of Clay, Clay was voiced by Kid Cudi.
Then we got Amy Schumer who voiced Velvet. Uh Andrew Rannells who voiced Veneer and then we got
uh Camilla Cabello who voiced Viva. I think that's how you say her name. I think so. Who was uh
Poppy's sister. Yes. I thought she was going to be in this a bit more than she was. I did too. I
mean I loved all the parts that she was in and the the way that they reacted there's like we're
gonna have to have a long talk with dad like that's so dad. That shit was that shit was great.
Yeah that's pretty good. Uh did you skip Floyd? Like who who voiced Floyd?
Oh my god I'm drawing a blank who Floyd was. Floyd was the one that was in the uh
the container. Oh my god yeah I did dude what the hell is wrong with me?
Oh my god I am so sorry. Um okay let's find out who that was. Yeah I mean it's it let me I I got
it up right now. Oh you do? Floyd was voiced by Troy Savan. I don't know who that is.
Uh well it kind of looks familiar.
I do not recognize a single thing that he has been in. He's been in a lot of music videos so
I think he's a singer. Okay I mean not bad for I mean this was his verse first voice um acting.
Solid job. Oh you know who he freaking played?
I think he was young yep he was young Logan.
In uh X-Men Origins. Oh that's cool. That is pretty sick. All right well now I'm even more
sorry that I forgot to include him. My bad I'm sorry. He I I liked his performance um
like I yeah like I thought he he gave a decent performance. He's not my top three or anything. I
just remember that there was one other brother that. No thank you for pointing that out. Yeah
um anyway so what's your uh your top three look like? I have a feeling it's ours is gonna be
pretty similar on this one. Okay um number three um I would actually give to Eric Andre who played
John Dory. Um I really enjoyed his character. I loved his voice actually for this character.
It worked really well um and just out of like the the new brothers well not new brothers out of
Branch's brothers. He was my favorite to watch. Um so yeah he's number three. Um number two I
would give to Justin Timberlake played Branch. Um he's number one. Um number two I would give to
Branch once again. He's great. Loved him in the first two. Loved him in this one. Um just yeah
nothing really else nothing really different to say. I mean I know we never broke down the first
two um but his performance hasn't changed. It's just as good as it was in the first two. I love
him as this character. Love this character um and he was once again great and I feel this one um
even got more of a chance to shine um because you know with it being uh the story focused on his um
his uh his brothers and the relationships and all that um even gave him more of a chance to to
stand out. But even though it's more so Branch's story I'm sorry Anna Kendrick is Poppy.
She just she stands out in every single one of these movies. I would put her at number one in
all of these all three films because she is so energetic as this character. She makes she makes
this character so much fun. I love when I love whenever Poppy is on screen. I love it so much and
when uh her and her sister interact um in this makes me love her even more. Um she she is fantastic.
Um so that is my top three. Dude freaking agreed. Yeah I had a feeling it would be exactly the same
and I was 100% correct. Hell yeah. I I would say I where I think you maybe you believe she's the
like the big standout. I think her and Justin Timberlake could be a coin flip. All right.
Like that's where I'm a little closer to it being like a coin flip between them.
Justin Timberlake's an underrated actor dude. Dude he really you know what the biggest um
flex that I feel he should be able to showcase is the fact that he voiced and I know no one
watched it but the fact that he he voiced Boo Boo and Yogi Bear and you can't even tell that it is
him. His his voice impression is so freaking good in that movie. It is really freaking good.
Nothing against Dan Aykroyd who plays Yogi but I'm sorry it's just Dan it's just Dan Aykroyd doing a
voice impression of Yogi Bear. Yeah. Um you you still can hear Dan Aykroyd in there.
If you cannot hear Justin Timberlake at all in Boo Boo. I know dude I thought that was a joke
when I first saw it when they're just like Boo Boo voiced by Justin Timberlake. I was like bullshit.
Yeah that's funny and then you see you're just like oh god like yeah he he did the voice like
whoever voiced Boo Boo the first time around and ones that have come after that like he did justice
to the character. He was fantastic. Yeah. But yeah I'm I mean he's he there's not a hell of a lot that
hell of a lot that he can't do. Like he's done like some serious movies like he's done like
obviously comedies like he plays like a super wide range of characters. Yeah. Um a really good one
that kind of showcases his acting. I know it's like super cheesy but I like his movie In Time.
Yes that movie gets way too much hate. It does it does have a very like
I don't think it needed to be as long as it did. This it feels like something that could have been
like an episode of like Black Mirror or something. All right that's fair. But it was good. It really
was. I liked it a lot. Yeah I did too. But yeah I mean anyway getting back to this movie the
the performances were great. At least from the main cast I think some of the extras were
could have been a little bit much. Yeah I mean I feel like you said I liked Tiny Diamond a lot in
this movie compared to the second one which I hated him. Nothing against Keenan Thompson. He's
great in both times that he's played him. But I am glad that he was a lot more tolerable in this
time around. Yeah very much so. So where are you sitting with with acting?
I think I'll just be slightly above my story score. So I think I'll be an 86.
I'm actually sitting right at your story score so I gave it an 84. Okay dude we are so close in this.
I love it. We are. I mean there's a little bit more of a separation than there typically is. But
usually it's like one off so it's not too often that it's two. Yeah but yeah anyway next up we
got character development. Like I feel you you have to compare. I'm I'm super
assuming you would you did Branch. Yes okay. I feel you have to compare Branch's character arc
in this movie with the first two because he has come quite a long way. Being how he was in the
first one you know didn't want to be associated with anybody. Hated everything. To now he freaking
he's honestly living a good life. He has a girlfriend now. Just it's it's really nice to see
how far he's come from one to three. And adding that he was in a boy band like you think that
that would just like feel out of place maybe like oh well where the hell was that and why wasn't that
pointed out in the first two. But it doesn't. It makes complete sense that he's in a boy band.
Why wasn't that pointed out in the first two. But it doesn't. It makes complete sense that the way
that he is in the first one how we're first introduced to him. The way that his brothers
just left him makes complete sense as to why Branch is the way that he is. And seeing that you know
he decides to go with John Dory to free Floyd and you know he's actually excited that he actually
gets to see his brothers again and get them all together. But then literally as everyone's been
brought back together and they're heading to Floyd to rescue Floyd. They're just like yeah
so after we rescue him we're breaking up again. Yeah because you know we can't handle each other.
And just the freaking like turmoil that Branch goes through this movie to where like you know he's
he's mad to see his brother brothers but then he's happy to see him. But then once again he's just
like well you guys are leaving me all over again. This is bullshit. And then of course you know at
the end they decide no we're gonna stay brozone. Brozone is back. It's great. It's a simple you
know it's a many would say it's a simplistic character development. Excuse me. But for just
how much I've gotten to know this character through these three films I actually really
enjoyed it. The Branch in the first movie I never would have thought that I would have loved him as
much as I do when looking at the third movie. Yeah they do focus very heavily on his growth
which I think is is pretty fun. I mean they have little snippets for Poppy and whatnot but I think
a majority of their growth is coming from Branch. Yeah I feel the second uh I don't know would you
say the second one is Poppy's movie for character development? Mostly yes. Yeah okay. Yeah but I like the
the methodology like behind like the the Trolls movies because what it feels like they're doing
is instead of being like oh let's continue this story of like let's see where where we can take
it and blah blah blah like moving forward it's more just like okay well you know what we never
addressed in this one? Like we never like outright said that Branch didn't have a family before. We
just all we had was he lived with his grandma and she got eaten. Yeah. Because he was singing.
Do you forget the fact that when he says that and Clay's just like wait grandma got eaten?
Poor Clay didn't know. Yeah and it's um so yeah I mean it's that it's um
um gosh but what was I saying? What was the point I was trying to make?
It's it's fun how they talk about stuff. It's like again it's things that they never address
where the the second movie it's just like oops the dad has a secret surprise surprise other trolls
are out there and then this one it's like oh surprise surprise secret family.
Like I hope that they keep that train going because it where it's just like oh dad has another secret.
I mean I forget the director's what was his name? Because he directed the he didn't direct the first
one but he directed this one and the second one. Walt Dorn. He straight up said he's got a lot of
stories for the for trolls and these characters so if and I mean this one was successful enough.
It was the budget was 98 million or 95 million box office was 208. That's not bad. That's not bad at
all. So he said if the interest is there and the box office is there he's glad to continue to make
more and more trolls movies. That's fine. I think I think with what trolls is and it like I said it's
something visually pleasing for children. Yes. And it's musical it's fun like Iris when we were
watching it was jumping around and dancing to certain songs like that's what it should be.
Yeah it doesn't need to be any great cinematic masterpiece. Yeah. And so with I mean just getting
into the character development like it it doesn't need to be a character driven story or
it's character driven anything. Yeah. So I mean talking about Branch he had an arc it was it was
fine. It wasn't anything like groundbreaking or whatever it was it was exactly what it needed to be.
Exactly. So this is probably where I'm going to it was as average as it as it could get and I think
that is just purely in benefit of the film. Yeah. So I don't know about you but I'm sitting maybe
like 76 with character development. It's it this was just barely above average.
I think I'm just going to be slightly above you out of 78. It's like he said very much average or
even slightly below average but just I still really really enjoyed the character development
we get from Branch here. Yeah. All right next up we got animation.
I mean just as solid as it was with the first two. I will say with with when they decided to
make a animated Trolls movie I am very much glad that they did not make them truly look like the
toy that they're based off of. They even make that joke in the first one that's those are like the
ploy trolls that they do to distract the Bergens. Yep. So thank God that they did not go with those
designs because that would not have been pleasing to the eye. But the designs that they did go with
for all three of these are there. There's some I really like it. The animation just pops. It's
vibrant. Just yeah like like for how for how these movies are set up like honestly the the animation
impresses me like I can understand why the budget is almost 100 million for almost all these when it
comes to the animation because like it is I feel it's really freaking solid. Yeah it's
it's solid animation. It's nowhere close to being like the best thing in the world.
Like this is it this doesn't even come close to touching what Puss in Boots was. Oh definitely.
Like it's good. I think a lot of the action sequences looked a little odd at times.
Like there was just there was some movement that would happen occasionally where it felt like it
wasn't fully compositioned. Okay that's fair. Yeah so I mean I overall enjoyed the the animation on
on this. I'm still fairly high. I'm like I haven't decided. Where are you at?
I just really enjoy the animation not only in this one but with all three. So
so yeah you're right it's nothing groundbreaking. Groundbreaking. So I'd say I'm probably at like a
solid 90. Yeah I'm going to hair below sitting at an 89 there. All right next up we got music
which it's a Trolls movie. The soundtrack is freaking bitchin. Yeah it's it's it's so killer.
And add in that we got a freaking song that reunited in sync after years and years. I feel
that just made it even freaking better. Yeah I like that they're not fully jumping on the
modern music train. Like they are hitting classics. Yes definitely. Like the
what's what where does it call the Sweet Dreams song. Yeah I thought that was really well
performed. Obviously it had a bit of a more modern take on it. Yeah. Which and I thought it
worked really well. It did. Even like when John Dory and Bruce are like they first come together
and decide to sing their first song together after so many years. I think it was Candy Girl.
I think that's the name of the song. Yeah I think. Yeah that's definitely an older song.
That is not one that a lot of people this day and age would know about. But the way that they
perform it freaking great. And when Branch jumps in it's even better. Yeah I'm just looking through
the soundtrack right now. I mean they got yeah you're a Candy Girl. You've got it. Motown Philly.
Everybody. Backstreet's back. Staying Alive. Nine to Five. Better Place. Family Perfect. It
takes two. Like it's such a good freaking soundtrack dude. For real. Yeah so the song
that I like my favorite song has to be the opening to the portion where Branch and his brother start
singing and they're all trapped in the glass or the diamond. Yeah that was awesome. Like that
like that had a killer build up. Yeah it did. So yeah freaking love that. I mean it's so cool.
Love that. And all of the other songs too. I'm not the biggest fan. Like the only thing that
affects the soundtrack for me personally and I'm not going to affect it because I know this is a
personal preference. I'm not the biggest fan of mashups or medleys. Also like combining two songs.
Yeah where I would just say it with like a bunch of different songs. Yeah because like that's you
know I was talking about like you first get Candy Girl but then once Branch comes in jumps straight
into the Backstreet's back but of course they say Brozones Back. So yeah I can see where you're
coming from. Yeah it's not my favorite thing. I know that's a personal preference but I yeah
it's not affecting the music score for me at all. I'm having a hard time not not giving this a 10
though. I will I mean personally I would give it a 10. Yeah. All right next up we got character design.
So this is just how like the characters looked and and everything. Trolls it's a classic look.
Definitely. Like at least now like the the updated modern trolls. It's a classic look. Very
distinctive but in terms of this movie I feel like they should have either
been consistent with how the brothers looked at the beginning with how they looked at the end
or when they were like first introduced. Like I think there should have been some more consistency
there because it seemed like everything about them sort of changed. Yeah that's true. Like it was
it was their figure that changed and with some of them like the the the dreamboat one.
Like that made sense because it was for a gag. Yeah. But like some of the others like I want to
say Clay like he went from being like kind of classic troll build like kind of how like they all
kind of started off looking like how Branch does. Yeah that's true. And then they kind of went to
looking like wildly different. Yeah for sure. Like I think they were like they were like
different. Yeah. I think Clay was the the worst not worst but like the most obvious like he
I would dare say it wasn't even recognizable. Yeah very much so. Like I actually almost re
rewound the movie to be like that's not the same freaking dude. Right. Yeah.
So I think that there should have been some level of consistency there and I am going to ding the
movie for that. That's fair. Just because from like I'm trying to think from like a kid's
perspective that'd be hard to follow. Yeah yeah you're not wrong. Like especially since we only
see them for a short amount of time. Yeah that is true. So other than that it's hard to argue with
like how the characters looked. So are like how distinct their look is. So I'm probably around
a nine for costumes. Yeah I'm gonna have to match you there. All right last up we got our own
personal score. So where are you sitting with that one? So with this one like pointed out trolls is
the rare it's one of the rare trilogies in my opinion that all three are they're consistent
and that's a very good thing. They're all consistently good. They're they're nothing
groundbreaking. They're they're no across the spider verse or Puss in Boots the Last Wish
but they're fun kids movies that I feel even adults can enjoy.
And this this third one I had just as good of a time with it as I did with the first two.
The Branch and Poppy are great characters. I love seeing them. Their characters develop even more
with this one and the inclusion of Branch's brothers is great.
Just yeah I had a really good time with this with this third movie. So personally I would
I think personally I'll be at an 84.
Not bad.
Not bad. I am I'm sitting in that in that ballpark too. I might be a little bit lower though.
This this may be my least favorite of the three. Okay. They're like they're all pretty much on the
same level. Like the difference I feel like the difference between my personal score on this one
versus the others is maybe a point. Like it's it's not a huge difference at all. Yeah. But I'm I'm
given my personal score in 82. I really dig how these movies are are made. Like you like you stated
they're consistent and they're fun. And for something that's meant to be for kids like this
it hits the target on the head every freaking time. Yeah it really does. So I mean and the
soundtrack is killer. It is perfectly acceptable of a thing for parents and kids to watch alike.
Like there's there's nothing wrong with this movie for like it's just yeah there's nothing like truly
like wrong with this. Like any of our our score problems there it's it's mainly nitpicks.
Yeah no that's a good point. And just like from our perspective as adults kids aren't going to
regard this. This is more than fun enough for them to to watch and see. Yes. So
yeah like I said I'm giving this one a an 82. Not bad. All right. So with that that wraps up
this week's breakdown. So going through these scores real quick. Starting off with Story.
We had a pretty decent starts and then an 83. The writing took a bit of a dive sitting at 79.5.
Acting jumped right back up to an 85. Character development went is our lowest category sitting
is our lowest category sitting at a 77. 80 or so the the animation is sitting at an 89.5 because
it's Dreamworks and it looks really good. Music surprise surprise sitting at a 10 out of 10.
And the character design is sitting at a 9 out of 10. And then our personal score for this movie
ended up averaging two in 83. So with that the final Albrose letter grade for Trolls Band Together
is a B. I think that's perfect. I think that is excellent. Yeah. Like that. Awesome. Freaking
love that. Yeah. This is this is the perfect ranking for for this one.
All right. Let's see where this one ended up ranking.
All right. So this one is sitting at an 85.87 percent. This is our new highest B movie.
Hell yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Right. So out of 30 or no 44 B movies this is sitting at number one.
Nice. And in like our total ranking out of 269 moves. Actually that's probably not a great
category or a great ranking because most of our movies are B minus B B plus movies.
So there's not a whole lot of C plus not a whole lot of C C minuses like and there's
just less and less. So doing it that way is probably not accurate. Anyway.
So yeah it's sitting at an 85.87 percent which puts it below Shazam Fury of the Gods
as well as Mr. Peabody and Sherman. OK. I can agree with that one. It is below Nightmare on Elm Street.
Oh wow. Yeah. Spider-Man Homecoming and Sing To. All right. That's fair. Yeah. I
I'm fine with that. And let's see going the opposite direction. It is sitting above Star
Wars The Force Awakens. I'm going to bite my tongue with that.
Yeah. That makes you feel better. It's point zero six percent difference. OK. That doesn't
make you feel a little better. It is also sitting above Halloween Kills.
Yeah. OK. I can accept that. All right. And onward.
You know what. Yeah. I would agree with that actually.
Yeah. Yeah. It is also above
The Flash. Oh damn.
And it is above holes. OK. Not bad. Not bad ranking. Yeah. Not bad at all.
I think this has a pretty decent home. Agreed. Definitely. Yeah. So awesome. All right. Well if
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