Prince D presents her with a brief lesson in appropriation history called “It’s All Love (History of Funk)”: “The Pop Trolls started snatching up all of the strings/Put the melodies on top ...

But neighboring kingdoms have trolls defined by Funk, Country, Techno, Classical, and Rock music. Each of these kingdoms contains a relic, a magical string that keeps the songs humming.

Nonetheless, there is ample opportunity for a psychedelic showcase of vividly animated images accompanied by music, singing, and dancing. Trolls 3 unmistakably serves as a pretext for an onslaught ...

And since a key element of the first film’s charm was how unabashedly it used pop music not just as the usual aural wallpaper but to color in the ecstatic spirit of the Trolls, “Trolls World ...