Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Season 2 Review

Trolls fans it's time for something new from the Trolls franchise as season 2 of The Beat Goes On! has just dropped on Netflix and since I liked the the first season I thought why not review the second so here we go.

As with the first season the show is episodic and I think it works for this series and some of the shows stories are really fun to see play out even if you know how the story is going to end before it happens I won't lie I saw the ending for Big Poppy coming a mile away but that doesn't mean it wasn't fun to see play out.

Returning for the second season we have Skylar Astin , Amanda Leighton , Kari Wahlgren , Sam Lerner , Ron Funches , Kevin Michael Richardson and Fryda Wolff. Unlike the last season where I couldn't get the original voices out of my head now I think Skylar and Amanda are great replacements for the film actors but with that said I still would have preferred it if they got all of the films main cast back for the series.

The animation was once again done by Dreamworks Animation and I think that the animation in this season is better then what they had in the last season if that even makes sense and it has a certain charm to it it's not the best animation like in Avatar but at the same time it's not as bad as Teen Titans Go! or any Sony Pictures Animation movie.

Alot of people might be wondering why I like this show well that's because while it is a bad show it's like the Fast & Furious movies in that it's pure junk food for the brain you know it's not going to be any good but at the same time you go and enjoy them anyway and to me that's what describes this show yes it's bad but at the same time you want to go and see it and have fun with it.

I have to ask this but do we really need Cooper in this show he's so freaking annoying he's fine in the movie because he's not in it that much but when the show focuses on him you would have thought that the makers of the show would have tried to make him less annoying but nope they didn't and it really does hurt the show as a whole.

Even tho I didn't notice it last season but DJ Suki is adorable as hell and in my opinion she's one of the best characters on the show (apart from Poppy that is) and it's a shame that she doesn't get that much screen time in the series which is a shame because every time she's on screen I end up laughing at least once.

For some reason people don't really talk much about this show and I think that's partly due to the fact it's on Netflix but also due to the fact that this for sure a kids show but either way I do think people should be talking about this show more even if it's in a negative light it's still better then nothing but if your not talking about it because you havn't got Netflix then fair enough.

This show does something awesome it makes a Back To The Future reference and it's really freaking funny but tho sadly not all of the jokes this season are funny in fact quite a few aren't and for some reason they reference The Shining as if the target audience have seen that movie but for every bad joke there's one or two that will at least make you smile and that's the best thing I can say about them they will make you smile.

Like the last season there's alot of songs in this season so many in fact that I actually cannot remember any of them I know Poppy has a solo song I think in episode one but that's really it and they have a song at least once per-episode it's like they made the soundtrack first and then released they had to come up with a way or marketing it so they made a Netflix series to sell the soundtrack.

Overall this season was pretty good but it's not as good as the first but then again the first season was so fresh to me that no matter how good this season was it wasn't going to top the first for me this series gets a perfect 5 out of 10.

  

Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Review

Trolls fans last year we had the christmas short film and now we have the Netflix series so let's see if this show is going to make you burst out into song or will it turn you into a burgen? lets find out in my review of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!.

The show basically follows the Trolls as they experience everyday life in the Troll Village. yeah as you can tell by the synopsis this show is episodic so there's no real story to speak of and for something like Trolls that actually works what doesn't work is the fact that each episode is two eleven minuet segments instead of just one half hour segment which i think would have been better.

Out of all the cast members from the film the only one who was brought back was Ron Funches as Cooper and he's ok in the show for the rest of the characters we have Skylar Astin as Branch , Amanda Leighton as Poppy , Sam Lerner as King Gristle , Fryda Wolff as DJ Suki, Satin and Chenille and Kari Wahlgren as Bridget. The new cast do an ok job i say ok because in my eyes the films cast suit the characters alot more then the ones in the show so i have to wonder why they didn't just get back the cast from film since those are the voices that audiences are most used to those voices?.

Now for some reason Netflix chose to release only twelve episodes for this first season even tho well over 50 segments were ordered and what's even more confusing is that season 2 will only have twenty episodes so i have to ask where are the rest of the segments coming from it might be a case of doing maths (which i'm terrible at so the episodes in total might reach 50) this is nothing against the series just something that really confused me.

  

I thought that the animation wouldn't be that good and while it can be fairly bad just because it's not going to look as good as the film. For the most part the animation is pretty good and as you can see by the above images it's not CGI it's done in 2D animation and i can see why they would do that since it's cheaper then doing it in CGI and rather shockingly i'm ok with that since for me the Trolls film was like a cartoon anyway so having done in this style makes me happy.

Something that really shocked me was the fact that this show is actually pretty funny i wasn't expecting this show to be as funny as it was no joke there was alot of times during these first six episodes where i laughed out loud yes the jokes aren't clever but sometimes you don't want or need clever jokes you just want to laugh but i will have to say this show does have fart jokes.

Another thing that this show has going for it is the songs for once they don't just do covers they have original songs and alot of them are actually really catchy for me the best song on the show is the opening number which is called Hair In The Air which is a nice little catchy number that really gets you in the mood for the show.

Overall this is a pretty good show for little kids but i think that if your a fan of the first film then you might like this show as well for me it gets a 5.5 out of 10.

Trolls Holiday Review

Yes i will pretty much review anything at this point and because it's early November ANOTHER Holiday themed special is out this time featuring the Trolls so here is my review of Trolls Holiday.

What is the plot of this special i here you ask well When Poppy queen of the Trolls figures out that the Bergens do not celebrate holidays she Branch and the other Trolls must get them into the spirit of the holiday. Yeah this special doesn't really call it self a christmas special but you can tell by the end that's what it is and the story is pretty much what you'd expect from a Trolls TV special.

The whole cast from the film reprise there roles for this special those being Anna Kendrick , Justin Timberlake , Zooey Deschanel and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. All of the actors that i've mentioned are pretty good in this special altho i have to admit i didn't know that Anna was back in this since poppy's voice sounded a bit different to me i only wish that the makes of this franchise would give the actors something more to do then say some mildly funny lines.

I think that the animation in this special an improvement over the animation from the film which i know is an odd thing to say considering both this and the film would have been in development at the same time but it's true everything in this special looks better then in the film. There's a great scene early on where they use mixture of animation techniques going from the traditional CGI animation to using puppet versions of the characters.

Now i will admit that this special got a few chuckles out of me and they mostly came from Poppy herself there's nothing really laugh out loud funny but there's another to at least get a smile or two the bad thing is the jokes aren't really that memorable chances are you'll here the joke but then forget about it within a few minuets.

Now this is a Trolls product so almost all of the songs are covers and i have to say that alot of them aren't that bad JT does a great version of Shaggy's Angel and there's a good upbeat version of "Love Train" but for me the only cover that isn't that good is "Holiday" it's the most obvious song to cover and it's not done well at all.

Overall this won't be the last we see of the Trolls as there will be a Trolls 2 and a netflix series called Trolls The beat Goes On out next year this special is the bogstanderd holiday special it does nothing new at all but it's a fun watch just a shame it was released in NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it gets a 6 out of 10.