Kendrick and Timberlake provide excellent voiceover performances, but it’s the variety of colorful and nuanced characters, along with well-placed songs both familiar and new, that provides 'Trolls' with enough intelligence and emotion to make it a well-above-average children’s film. Not that I would know anything about that.

Download the Drums Backing Track of Cant Stop the Feeling as made famous by Trolls. A movie that seemed to be a formulaic, star-driven device with a cornball message is filled with terrific, positive metaphors, including an evocative moment or two that might just leave you crying alongside your 6-year-old daughter. Get Back Up Again Lyrics: I really hope I can do it / Cause theyre all depending on me / I know that I must leave the only home / Ive ever known / And brave the dangers of the forest. 'Trolls' is one of the most pleasant surprises of the year. While kids will find Timberlake and Kendrick enchanting, adults may find the Bergens’ King Gristle (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and his lowly castle maid, Bridget ( Zooey Deschanel), a bit more relatable and entertaining. What follows is a trippy adventure, including a talking cloud, a hilarious cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s 'Sounds of Silence,' and an excellent original song and vocal performance by Kendrick called “Get Back Up Again.” The latter isn’t exactly 'Let It Go,' from 'Frozen,' but it’s good enough to be part of childhoods for generations to come. In an effort to make amends for bad judgment, Poppy decides to take on the Bergens, and enlists Branch’s help. Branch seems like a paranoid loon, but he’s right. Poppy is also planning a troll rave, which doesn’t sit well with the lone grumpy troll, Branch (Justin Timberlake), who believes Poppy’s ostentatious presentations of mirth and merriment will call attention to the trolls, making it easier for the Bergens to find them.

Some 20 years later, Peppy’s daughter, Poppy (Anna Kendrick), has become the perpetually positive princess and spiritual leader of the trolls - always singing, dancing, laughing and doling out positive advice and mantras. But led by King Peppy (Jeffrey Tambor), the trolls finally wise up to the Bergens’ ways. They are so happy, the Bergens, a human-sized and slovenly-looking lot, use the trolls as “happy meals” (of course, seizing the marketing opportunity, McDonalds features Trolls Happy Meals), believing the only way they can be happy is by eating a troll. The trolls are a happy species, always singing and dancing and never sad. Read: 'Hacksaw Ridge' Might Garner Oscar Nod for Andrew Garfield

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