‘Trolls Band Together’ Review: Justin Timberlake Sends Up His Boy-Band Past In A Cute Psychedelic Pop Satire

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Wanna feel old? The Trolls franchise is seven this year and brings with it a whole culture of nostalgia for the late ’90s and early ’00s that to anyone under 40 will seem like a million years ago.

The rest of us might remember it as yesterday; a moment in time when boy bands sprang up at the rate of one a week, offering different permutations of The Wild One, The Sensitive One, The Sultry One, The Cute One and, inevitably, The Most Famous One That Left and Threw the Whole Project Into Crisis.

Trolls Band Together takes all this as its central thesis, which is a relief after its two hectic predecessors, the first being an origins story, in which the trolls — the psychedelic lovechildren of gonks and Smurfs — must save themselves from being eaten by buck-toothed creatures called Bergens.

The Bergens didn’t feature much in Trolls World Tour, which instead extended the musical world to encompass Hard Rock trolls, Techno trolls, Funk trolls, Classical, Country and even Smooth Jazz trolls.