After All Dogs Go To Heaven was beaten at the box office by a more sophisticated animated film adaption of Hans Christian Anderson's novel, one of the films Don Bluth and his animators worked on was A Troll in Central Park (yeah he worked on Rockadoodle and released it first but that's not my point). He was so passionate about A Troll in Central Park that he threatened to boot out his animators if they refused to have the same enthusiasm as he did. So you know what happened next? They all fled to Disney, the same place Bluth ran away from in bad terms, to work on a more promising project called Beauty and the Beast, a film Don Bluth once considered making. Thank God for Disney. Now lets talk about the sin A Troll in Central Park. The troll characters are so ugly, I know they're meant to be unappealing as characters but they literally put me off eating for a whole day! The child characters are so bad and unlikeable you wonder why their parents haven't sent them off to Pleasure Island yet! Say what you will about the autistic sons from The Unexpected Journey, because believe me I will at some point. At least their behaviour can be excused by the fact that they have autism and eventually there was a way that the mom still has a chance to turn them into mature and decent young adults as they grew. Nice to see Dimitri in the film however, instead of letting the spoilt brat do whatever he wants at the end of the film, he should send him off to a military boot camp run by Major Payne. I have to admit this is also the most pointless film of all time because if the babysitter had bothered to do her job, we would have actually gone straight to the credits. You really have to work HARD to make a character seem creepy. I'm not talking about Gnorga and her trolls, I'm talking about Stanley the happy troll. I like how Don Bluth Entertainment attempted to create an original story about a something/somebody who has trouble trying to get around with societal standards because this could have been the type of film that would resonate with minority groups such as the LGBT community. This leads to the question... Who is this film made for? Young children under the age of 7 would probably fall asleep or not pay attention to the film until they start screaming at Gnorga rocking up at New York's Central Park to turn Dimitri's son into a troll, thumb wrestle Stanley and turn him into stone (I'm not joking, thumb wrestling is the real climax of this film). Those over the age of 7 would hate this film for its cheezy bullshit songs and ridiculous filler that tries to be Fantasia and Dragon's Lair but ends up looking like The Oogieloves Big Balloon Adventure. The morals suck, such as the childish "if you dream, you will succeed in life" and "fuck parents do whatever you want". Those morals could have made anarchic socialist communist Antifa retards blush but because its from this wannabe Fantasia movie, they come off as extremely arrogant. At the end of the film, Stanley turns New York into a mass of greenery which is something evil villains would do in Marvel comics. I swear to God, there are no redeeming factors in this film at all! Not even throwing Dimitri and an Ursula wannabe character named Gnorga can be claimed as redeeming factors. Well I take it back. Maybe the only redeeming factor this film has is it can be used as an alternative to a doorstop.
Sweet Lucifer, watch Beauty and the Beast instead!
Sweet Lucifer, watch Beauty and the Beast instead!