Troll 2: Blu-Ray/DVD Combo: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Review by JAM
Green slime, crazy vegetarian goblins, a druidic witch, and the ghost of a dead grandfather fill the movie Troll 2, but no trolls. And so begins the quest of this reviewer to watch one of the worst movies ever made, yet a classic in its camp. It’s creepy old guy convention in Nilbog as the Waits decide to do a home swap with a country family and end up with a town full of vegetable loving goblins. Through the use of green food, normal humans turn into a vegetable concoction of green goo or an all-you-can-eat buffet for these little monsters. Only the power of goodness can break the spells and take out the druidic witch that birthed these monsters so stay good and be green!
JAMS Ink on Troll 2
This movie is definitely 80s style campy. It is often so hard to look back at special effects nowadays as we see 80s work and it looks just so bad. But this one is even worse than you would expect for the following reasons.
1. Costuming. The 80s were just pretty bad for style overall and I was not immune from it myself. Looking back at older pictures, I too was a victim of the too short shorts and the striped shirts that plagued this era and this movie. Throw in the fake goblin masks that look like rubber Halloween masks about to fall off of our main villains, an eccentric druidic witch with the style to match her oddball spells, a townspeople full of bad country bumpkin wear and fake clover shaped facial moles, and the workout obsessed sister with full Flashdance garb and we have a winner of a movie… Or not.
2. The monsters. A movie called Troll 2 would normally be filled with evil trolls plotting the end of humans as we know them. Or one angry vicious troll plaguing a small city, village, or farmstead with its evil wiles and carnivorous appetite. Hmmm… Yeah, no trolls in Troll 2. We have goblins but they are vegetarians and environmentally conscious. They are mean vegetarians with magical food, but still vegetarians. And there is a witch, or a druid, or a chick just kind of off her rocker who brought these things to life through the use of a magic stone from Stonehenge. And there is a ghost, but he is a good guy with the unbelievable ability to save his grandson whenever he needs to, even as he often gets banished from the human realm and will never be back… Until his grandson needs him again.
3. Green food. I know this is the way the goblins turned people into their chlorophyll cocktails, but green food and I do not really enjoy each others company. Seeing the Wait family ready to dig into corn on the cob with green goo along with all the other green choices just made me feel a little green myself.
Reading this, you would think I had something against 80s movies, or at least 80s effects driven movies but I don’t. The Neverending Story and others were well done movies for what they were and when they came out, but this one is camp at its greatest. Check it out if you want to see one of the best worst movies of all time. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
EXTRAS
Well, the set comes with the movie on Blu-ray and DVD if you want. It also has the theatrical trailer for extras, but that is it.
Troll 2 Blu-Ray Combo Pack
Street Date: October 5, 2010
Screen Format: Widescreen
Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
Subtitles English, French and Spanish
U.S. Rating: PG 13
Total Run Time: 97 minutes
Closed Captioned: Yes
Troll 2 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment chomps onto shelves on October 5, 2010 so check out one of the best, campiest, worst movies ever made, if you dare!!!
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