Gnomes & Trolls

Gnomes & Trolls
This review is based on how much my grandson enjoyed the movie, which makes sense, because it is a movie for children. He is 5 years old and I came across it on our tv's pay-per-view. As soon as he got a glimpse of it, he went on about how "this is the movie I wanted to see." Don't know where he saw it, but well, he watched it OVER and OVER again. I had to "buy" the movie 3 times. Don't know if you know how it works, but when you "buy" a movie on tv, you can watch it for 24 hours. Okay, so the last time he watched it (lastnight), I watched his facial expressions, and he was smiling and laughing, and even after having watched it so many times, he still enjoyed it. As soon as he came home from school yesterday, he asked to see it again. That's why I decided that I needed to buy it, because it wasn't going to be in pay-per-view forever. For little boys, I'm sure they will love it!

A Fairly Lackluster CGI Affair
Let me start out this review with a very important disclosure: Gnomes and Trolls doesn't do anything wrong; so much as it simply doesn't bring anything memorable to the equation. I open with what should, by all facts and circumstances, should be the conclusion of this report because you are surely perusing reviews so as to determine if this film is worth your (and maybe your family's) time. In that line of thinking you can certainly do worse than to pick this DVD up (especially if you're going to rent it) but it should be said that you could do much better as well. That said, let's take a look at the facts shall we?

Gnomes & Trolls is actually a Swedish film that came out back in 2009 called Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber. It was then brought over to the Region 1 market in 2010. Here it gets a little bit confusing because right as The Secret Chamber was coming out over here, a sequel was released in Sweden called the Gnomes and Trolls: The Forest Trial. Don't...

Lifeless
A pretty dull affair. We watched it with our 5 year old boy and he did not have the reaction of the boy mentioned in the other review. Not sure why but there is something seriously lacking in this movie. The animation is sub-par by today's standards and the character's vague and unsympathetic. Not very well done.

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