Trolls World Tour

"Trolls 2" redirects here. Not to be confused with Troll 2.
For the soundtrack, see Trolls World Tour (soundtrack).
Trolls World Tour
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWalt Dohrn
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Jonathan Aibel
  • Glenn Berger
Based onGood Luck Trolls
by Thomas Dam
Produced byGina Shay
Starring
Edited byNick Fletcher
Music byTheodore Shapiro[1]
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • April 10, 2020 (2020-04-10)
Running time
91 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$90–110 million[3][4][5]
Box office$48 million[6]

Trolls World Tour is a 2020 American animated jukebox musical fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures, based on the Good Luck Trolls dolls created by Thomas Dam. The sequel to Trolls (2016) and the second installment in the franchise, the film was directed by Walt Dohrn and co-directed by David P. Smith (in his feature directorial debut), from a screenplay by Maya Forbes, Wallace Wolodarsky, Elizabeth Tippet, and the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, and a story by Aibel and Berger. The film features the voices of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Rachel Bloom, James Corden, Ron Funches, Kelly Clarkson, Anderson .Paak, Sam Rockwell, George Clinton, and Mary J. Blige. The film follows Poppy and Branch as they discover several more troll tribes that represent music genres other than their own. Troubles arise when the Queen of the Rock tribe Barb plans to overthrow the foreign music genres to unite the trolls under rock music.

A sequel to Trolls was announced in February 2017, with Kendrick and Timberlake returning to their roles. Much of the new cast was signed from May 2018 to June 2019. The custom marking animation to promote the film was provided by Minimo VFX and Jellyfish Pictures.

Trolls World Tour was released in the United States in a limited number of theaters on April 10, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was simultaneously released on video on demand. AMC Theatres subsequently announced they would no longer distribute the studio's films, though this was later reversed after AMC and Universal agreed on a new contract.[7][8][9][10] Like its predecessor, the film received generally positive reviews from critics.

A third film, Trolls Band Together, was released in theaters on November 17, 2023.[11][12][13]

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