A word about that woodland Troll bash. It’s a genuine rave, an explosion of glitter and rainbow color and trippy beats, and it’s here that it becomes clear what an inspired decision the filmmakers made by hiring Justin Timberlake to be their executive music producer. The film’s disco pulse gives it a throb of ecstasy, and this does more than create a handful of kicky musical sequences.
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Timberlake is one of the film’s two lead actors as well, and he does a superb job of voicing the role of Branch, who’s a kind of Chicken Little/Debbie Downer among Trolls. He always thinks everything is going to turn out badly, and that attitude has made him — literally — gray, with dark hair and a slightly beetle-browed expression. But what might have been a one-joke character (the token unhappy Troll!) here becomes something more. Timberlake makes Branch an understated neurotic, who has good reason not to trust happiness (or even singing), and the film portrays his arc as a true journey.
