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Summary: A stupid movie and it's classic sequal
Review: I can hardly contain myself! This movie (both movies) are being re-released on DVD?!? I saw the second one first back in 91/92 on HBO and I thought it was the greatest movie ever. This movie is the reason why I watch all the movies I do today. (1970's Italian Horror, Troma, 30's-50's B&W Horrors) Later, much later like 6 years after that I finally came across the first Troll at my local movie rental store. Sad to say but the sequal killed the original. Lately there has been a re-release of "Troll II" by a little company that restores old cheap movies to DVD floating around.... I almost bought it until I heard of this.I give this 5 stars. If you have so much as heard of the movie, it is for you.
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Summary: I grew up with the Creepy Red-Headed kid in Troll 2
Review: I grew up in Utah on the same block with Michael Stephenson (the creepy red-headed kid in Troll 2) One of my memories is we got in trouble because we left messages on my dads answering machine describing what we would do to a sexy woman at the mall (lol...we were only like 9 years old) Anyway check it out...you can see the Plateau of Michael Stephenson's career
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Summary: Great Campy Fun
Review: I haven't seen "Troll 2" yet, but Troll is great. It is all done in a very tongue-in-cheek manner and most of the humor is intentional. They were obviously spoofing/ripping off "Gremlins". Michael Moriarty is hilarious as Harry Potter, Sr., the lovable doofus father of Harry Potter, Jr. (and this pre-dates the J.K. Rowlings books). The little girl from Poltergeist ("They're heere") is also in it as the daughter. He is completely oblivious to what is going on around him and kind of plays it really laid back, like Bing Crosby or Dean Martin. There is no real gore or violence and not really any harsh language. I guarantee everyone in your family will enjoy this movie.
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Summary: the greatest movie of all time
Review: i love this movie, i cant stop watching it. this is a must own title. it has beautiful cinematographyt and a script that makes big budget films jealous. great acting and dialogue too. buy it NOW!!
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Summary: Troll 2 is the worst movie ever!!! you must buy it!!!
Review: I see people here writing reviews about how much they hate Troll2(although most reviewers here seem to get it)and all I can think is do these people actually think Troll 1 is good? No, they both suck and you should instantly dismiss any review that claims otherwise. But Troll 2 doesn't just suck, it is the worst movie ever...period(Mexican action films aside because that's a whole genre of bad unto itself). This movie makes Plan 9 from Outer Space look like Citizen Kane! Yes, it's THAT BAD!!! It is so awful that NO dvd collection would be complete with out it!!! MY GOD THIS MOVIE IS TERRIBLE! Buy it today you will not regret it. Trust me, just have some friends over let everyone get a couple of beers in them and pop it in the dvd in just a few minutes(maybe seconds) everyone will be rolling on the ground laughing at this brilliantly horrible film.
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Summary: TROLL 2 - !!!
Review: I want to thank the reviewers here who steered me to TROLL 2! I thought that the enthusiasm about its hilarious awfulness had to be exaggerated, but based on the general consensus that this is one you have to see to believe, I risked $9.99 and took a chance.
Wow!
Oh, what I also would give to hear a commentary track by the director and cast! Their brains should be put in glass jars and displayed in a medical museum somewhere upon their deaths! This is one for the ages. If you haven't seen it, remember the way RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK starts off on a high of adventure with that cave escape and then keeps trying to top it? Well, TROLL 2 starts out atop the Mt. Everest of stupidity and then miraculously keeps upping the stakes. It's the zenith of moron creativity! When you're holding your sides for the tenth time from laughing and think to yourself the "actors" can't possibly deliver another so-called line of dialogue in a way that's any more disjointedly absurd yet painfully sincere to top the last one, THEY DO IT! Talk about alternative reality! The CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI looks like an episode of THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW next to this. Just a small sampling of my favorite high points:
Grandpa Seth's unintentional and uncanny ability to sound - whenever he tries to pass on an eerie warning to his grandson - like a pervert!
Teenage Holly's scary-hip dance moves (for wooden acting she makes Brooke Shields in THE BLUE LAGOON look like a piker)!
The classic early conversation between the father and mother in which they discuss why and how they are trading houses with a strange farm family they don't know (David Mamet, eat your heart out)!
The subtle subtext choice of the actress playing the mother to choose to read all her lines with a "damnit-I-forgot-to-take-my-anti-depressant-medication-again-today" delivery.
The wacky pack of Holly's boyfriend and his friends - all of whom seem to have the brains of emotionally immature six-year-olds transplanted into their sixteen-year-old bodies (be sure to look for the hilarious sharing-the-same-bed quick cut-away shot too)!
The family's ingeniously logical plan to starve themselves for days on end to punish young Joshua for peeing on their dinner in order to save their lives (don't ask)!
The line that's right up there with "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" and "Louie, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship" , , , "You're a genius, big sister!"
As another reviewer said, a thousand reviews can't begin to scratch the surface as to how side-splittingly bad this movie is. I say the best joke we as a planet could ever play is, the next deep-space probe we send out a la Voyager to announce our existence, we only include a copy of TROLL 2 as an example of what human beings and life on earth are really like!
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Summary: You'd be stupid NOT to buy this!!!
Review: John Carl Buechler's Troll 2 may be one of the finest movies of the early 90's. Ah who are we kidding, it's one of the finest movies EVER! The film starts out with a family trading houses with another random family that they have never met but have agreed to trade houses with. This is, of course, a completely believable premise, as people in real life do this all the time. At least they do where I come from! The antagonists of the movie are goblins, and why shouldn't they be? Everyone knows when you buy a movie named Troll 2 you don't actually expect to see any TROLLS or anything. Anyway, these goblins (and believe me, you wouldn't want to run into one of these nasty little buggers in a dark alley, the makeup/special effects team really went all out here) are turning the quiet redneck town of Nilbog (incase you didn't notice, that spells GOBLIN backwards - that is an almost infinitely clever name for a town overrun by goblins!!! John Carl Buechler, you are truly a GENIUS!!!) into a race of human/plant hybrids so they can eat them, because all goblins are of course vegetarians. It makes perfect sense! The star of the movie, that kid from Neverending Story, must save his family along with some help from his beloved, dead Grandpa Seth and a bologna sandwich. It's a classic struggle of good vs. evil here folks! If all this isn't enough to convince you to run out and buy at least 5 copies of this piece of cinematic history, there's also a cameo appearance of Sonny Bono. I can' t think of any reason why a rational, sane person wouldn't want to own this! If you've never seen Troll 2, buy it today! Everyone should experience this film, as it is definitely one of the crowning achievements of Western Civilization.
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Summary: MGM did an excellent job for this Double Feature DVD!
Review: MGM has done an admirable job for this new Double Feature DVD. It contains both Troll and Troll 2, both presented in Animorphic Widescreen with their original theatrical trailers. The picture and sound are as good as we're ever going to see these two films on DVD. I applaud MGM for giving good treatment to little known films such as these. They could have just as easily slapped on Full-Frame transfers and no Trailers. Plus, MGM offers both movies for a very affordable price. Even if you hate one of the Troll movies, this DVD is still very worthwhile to buy for the one you do like. TROLL was released in the mid-1980's when I was still a kid growing up. One of the earlier films from Charles Band and Empire Pictures, predating the later Full Moon pictures. I first saw TROLL on HBO, and for some reason thought it was a great fantasy/horror film. Sure it was low budget, but very memorable even to this day. It features an early acting performance from Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and also a very funny appearance by Sonny Bono. TROLL 2 I had the pleasure of first viewing on video in the early 1990's when it was released. It really has nothing at all to do with the first TROLL movie as far as the plot goes and the production team. This is not a bad thing since TROLL 2 has an offbeat, cultish originality which is rarely seen in very many movies anymore. TROLL 2 was obviously a very low budget production and the acting is often horrible, but therein lies it's charm. It is one of those movies that is so bad it's good. Some people will love it and others will hate it. I personally think it's a classic cheesy movie!
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Summary: A TROLL THROUGH THE WOODS
Review: My sentiments to this double feature are pretty similar to many of the other Amazon reviewers, particularly in regard to TROLL 2, certainly one of the worst movies ever made. Let's go in order, though: TROLL was one of those movies that fell into the market courtesy of such movies as GREMLINS and GHOULIES. Set in an apartment house, the story focuses on a nasty troll planning to set up his "universe" in the apartment house and then once that was done, explode into the whole world and taking it over. The troll immediately takes the place of little Wendy, turning her into a bratty, insubordinate little pain in the butt. Only her brother suspects something is amiss. TROLL tries to be a comedy first and then a horror; it doesn't truly succeed as either. Suffice to say, the elegant June Lockhart and her daughter Anne add some class; we get cameos from Sonny Bono, a young Julia Louis Dreyfus, Gary Sandy and Brad Hall. Michael Moriarty and Shelley Hack play the parents, and Noah Hathaway (Never Ending Story) is the hero Harry Potter, Jr. Isn't it kind of ironic that Harry Potter was used as character names in this 1985 film, long before our current teenage hero. TROLL 2 has nothing to do with the first film; in fact, the word troll is never used (guess LLORT wouldn't have been a good name for the town?). Anyway, they're called goblins, and there is such bad acting, horrible makeup and special effects and no chill factor whatsoever. Deborah Reed who plays the Queen is so unabashedly cartoonish, you can't help but howl at her every line. Joshua, Holly and their parents are equally as bad. Yes, I did laugh a lot during TROLL 2 so as a comedy it worked rather well, but one cannot deny the lack of any quality in this corker. So if you're looking for a good laugh and to see one of the most reviled movies in cinema history, then take a troll with these two!
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Summary: The HORROR that is troll2 (because one really wans't enough!
Review: Now.... How could one begin to describe Troll 2? I could never even try to begin to do this film justice in mere text with a cast blatantly on day release from a psychiatric institution and special effects courtesy of BLUE Peter.
I come from Stratford, and when a terrible tourist shop shut down because of the rubbish it sold- i felt it was necessary to pay it a visit. Amoungst the remaining tat which hadn't been sold from the shop which was appropriatly called 'Insanity', I had the life-changing moment, an epiphany when i read the back of 'TROLL 2'. One really wasn't enough.
If you want gore, tack, lust, and sex with vegetables, this beast of cinematic experience is for you. A MUST for all cinema fans. The horrors are so infinate in number that they cannot all be listed, but for your pleasure i will outline some reccurent themes:
Incest
Cannibalism
The evil of vegetarianism
Appauling acting
The worst special effects EVER (no really, blind lepers could have done better!) a good one is the green water that pours down their faces when they're being 'transformed' and the foliage which appears to be stuck on them with glue.
Teenage sex
Drug abuse (other than that of the director)
The WORST soundtrack in history (The opening scene consists of the trolls frolicking in the woods to bad eighties electro-pop)
'Trolls', (throughout the film, the word 'Troll' isn't used once, they are referred to as goblins) which look like dwarfs with faces like smacked arses wearing potato sacks stuffed with lumpy pillows. Their masks are gems too- in one riveting scene, you get a close up of its mouth showing it had a tongue and it was clearly a man wearing a plaster fo paris mask.
a 'popcorn' sex scene and so so so so so much more.
to witness, visit your local closing insane asylum cast offs.
PLEASE buy it. its for your own good, it gave me my first proper laugh in years.
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