Troll 2

Foreign films to save the day!

(NO SPOILERS)

If you haven't seen the first Troll (A Norwegian film.) you should! This is a fun follow up in the same spirit. It's a solid 6/10 and has a bunch of fun moments. I highly recommend watching both in the original Norwegian audio with English subtitles. (The overdubs are cheesy, as always.) The first Troll is slightly better, but this addition didn't fall too short. Both are fun lighthearted popcorn movies. If you like fun 90s movies like Twister (The original, not the horrible new remake Twisters.), Lake Placid, Godzilla (with Matthew Broderick) etc... these movies fall into that vein.

WOKE STUFF:
There's basically nothing woke in this movie (Or the first one... as far as I can remember.) other than some typical "female empowerment".

It's been a while since I watched the first one but I don't remember it having so many corny cheesy scenes in it. The FX are still great and the
story is ok as a follow up but this one just seems less fun somehow. I don't remember the first one having so much forced humor and pop culture references though I could be wrong. Also the woke is pushed significantly into this one as well. Norway is a vast majority white country yet there is DEI minorities everywhere here including crowd and background character shots. Of the six core main actors in the group there is 1 white male, 1 darker male that I couldn't find anything on, 3 white females. and 1 Iranian female. The feminist movement is very prominent here. All men are relegated to just standing around or making jokes until a much smarter woman tells them to do something. Even the white Prime Minister and his general are ineffectual idiots. The ending has the females suddenly turn into military grade arms experts firing grenade launchers with precision and rapid reloading without any training whatsoever. If you liked the first one this is worth a one time watch if you can take the heavy forced in feminism and DEI.