What the corpus says about Trolls (2016)

What was said about it (22)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:10:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Trolls had to be watched first because the sequel releases the day this episode comes out. · "knowing that the day this episode comes out, trolls world tour will also be unleashed upon the world."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Katzenberg milked properties into cartoon shows, specials and sequels; Universal owns Trolls outright now and will continue. · "Casenberg always milks every property dry."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:59:43 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Fraggle Rock (TV series) · lineage · The Trolls society of different-sized species has a Fraggle Rock structure. · "a fraggle rock structuring of society where there are different species of different sizes"
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:01:36 · unknown (0.35)] Adventure Time (TV series) ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Trolls' look is the end of a chain from webcomics and Adult Swim through Adventure Time to mainstream kids animation. · "So you end up getting things like adventure time that feel more like what adult swim used to feel like than what a children's show used to feel like."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.35)] Shrek ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Trolls has Shrek-distilled humor: self-referential asides for the parents. · "this weird, annoying Shrek, you know, as you say, Shrek, distilled or whatever, like type of humor"
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:10:23 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls ↔ Antz (said as 'ants') · lineage · The mismatched-pair quest through the big world is compared to the plot of Antz. · "much like the plot of ants"
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:14:02 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cyrano de Bergerac · lineage · The middle of Trolls turns into a gender-flipped Cyrano with the trolls hiding in Bridget's wig. · "And then the movie becomes like Cyrano?"
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:19:16 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cinderella · lineage · The roller skate left behind makes the Bergen prince plot a Cinderella story. · "So then it becomes a Cinderella thing"
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:44:03 · unknown (0.30)] Toy Story 2 ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Branch's grandmother backstory is likened to Jessie's flashback in Toy Story 2. · "they like try to do the like Jesse Toy Story 2."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:48:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Trolls ↔ The Manchurian Candidate · theme · Joke that after watching Trolls he wanted to assassinate a presidential candidate, so maybe there is a Manchurian thing going on. · "I wanted to assassinate a presidential candidate, so maybe there's a whole Manchurian thing happening there too."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:23:36 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cabaret · theme · Can't Stop the Feeling starts as a pleasure and by the end feels menacing, like Tomorrow Belongs to Me in Cabaret. · "It's like in cabaret when, you know, when the Nazis all start singing, what's it called?"
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:45:55 · David Sims (0.75)] Trolls: The Experience ↔ Trolls · contrast · David's text says the experience was practical, engaging and well performed, far better than the movie. · "It was far better than the movie."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:24:30 · David Sims (0.40)] Trolls ↔ La La Land · contrast · City of Stars beat Can't Stop the Feeling and the speaker resents it as the La La Land song; the opening numbers are the film's best. · "I still am so resentful that that's the La La Land song."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:25:01 · unknown (0.40)] Trolls ↔ Moana · verdict · The speaker would have given the Oscar to the Moana song instead, and says Moana could have filled five nominees. · "obviously, I would have picked the Moana song"
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:54:07 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cars · industry · DreamWorks bought the Trolls rights as a toy brand, hoping it would be their Cars merchandise engine. · "They're like, this is going to be our cars."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:40:53 · unknown (0.40)] Trolls ↔ Doctor Strange · industry · Trolls (2016) opened the same weekend as Doctor Strange, the election weekend. · "This came out the same weekend as Dr. Strange."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:36:30 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls ↔ Gran Torino · what-if · Joke: what if Clint Eastwood had played the singing grump and sung Gran Torino instead of True Colors. · "Like, what if Clint Eastwood had played the, he likes singing?"
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:13:10 · unclear (Griffin Newman, David Sims or Richard Lawson) (0.30)] Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ↔ Trolls · craft · The speaker says the one original song Pasek and Paul wrote for Trolls sounds like all their other songs. · "It sounds like all their other songs."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:13:23 · unknown (0.35)] Justin Timberlake ↔ Trolls · career · Timberlake was cast as Branch and produced the music; Katzenberg promised him the Elton John role of the movie. · "you get to be the Elton John of this movie and get to be the lead character, even if you are a miscasting."
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.40)] Ron Funches ↔ Trolls · career · Funches plays Cooper and returns for the later shows; he was nearly a Blank Check guest. · "Funches is another person who was almost on blank check."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:53:26 · unknown (0.40)] Anand Tucker ↔ Trolls · what-if · An earlier Trolls was to be a musical directed by the Shopgirl director with Chloe Grace Moretz, Jason Schwartzman and Rahman music, and kept being canceled. · "The director of Shopgirl was announced to direct a DreamWorks animated troll movie that was supposed to be a musical"
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.40)] A. R. Rahman ↔ Trolls · what-if · The Slumdog Millionaire composer was announced to do music for the earlier musical version. · "A.R. Ramini, the Slumdog Millionaire guy, was announced to be doing the music."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:46:21 · David Sims (0.70)] Trolls · fun · David's text review: the experience was far better, and the movie is like eating mayonnaise straight from the jar. · "This movie is like eating mayonnaise straight from the jar."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:47:00 · unknown (0.40)] Trolls · fun · One reaction: the movie feels chemically designed for kids to watch on loop, like Pringles. · "this thing is chemically designed to be played on loop."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:49:04 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls · fun · Released about four days before the 2016 election and four days after Halloween, a missed costume opportunity. · "You have to wait a full year for kids to buy their branch and Cooper costumes."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:54:38 · Richard Lawson (0.50)] Trolls · fun · Trolls the dolls: the Russ and Norfin companies, Danish woodcutter origin, then mass-licensed dolls with no mythology. · "there were the 2 companies."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:02:10 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls · fun · The Trolls look is described as a CBGB t-shirt bought at Hot Topic versus the vintage one. · "Trolls the movie is like a CBGB's t-shirt bought at a hot topic."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:08:31 · unknown (0.40)] Trolls · fun · The Bergens eat trolls once a year on Trollstice to become happy, treating them like MDMA. · "They use the trolls as like MDMA."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (4)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 1:37:35 · David Sims (0.40)] I Am a Camera ⇒ Cabaret (the host's read) · lineage · I Am a Camera, from the Berlin stories, led to Cabaret. · "I am a camera, which is, of course, uh, the Julie Harris movie that will eventually... Come, Camera, inspires the guys into cabaret, yes."
2. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:10:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Cars ↔ The Color of Money · theme · The lesson of Cars and Color of Money is that excellence is in how you use it, not raw skill, and the hosts tie the tagline line to the film. · "And I would say the lesson of cars and the lesson of, uh, the color of money is, uh, it's in the way that you use it."
3. [Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:23:50 · David Sims (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Cabaret · theme · Fosse's female characters like Sally Bowles and Honey Bruce got rich interior life, which Star 80 lacks. · "I would even argue, honey, Bruce, like, you know, who really is, like, pretty wonderful."
4. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:07:08 · David Sims (0.45)] Doc Hollywood ⇒ Cars (the host's read) · craft · Cars follows Doc Hollywood beat for beat, swapping in a hidden-legend old racer as the town mentor. · "Cars is Doc Hollywood basically beat for beat."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
2. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
3. [speaker] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point

The shows' running bits (1)

1. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Trolls (2016) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Trolls (2016) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:10:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Trolls had to be watched first because the sequel releases the day this episode comes out. · "knowing that the day this episode comes out, trolls world tour will also be unleashed upon the world."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Katzenberg milked properties into cartoon shows, specials and sequels; Universal owns Trolls outright now and will continue. · "Casenberg always milks every property dry."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:59:43 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Fraggle Rock (TV series) · lineage · The Trolls society of different-sized species has a Fraggle Rock structure. · "a fraggle rock structuring of society where there are different species of different sizes"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:01:36 · unknown (0.35)] Adventure Time (TV series) ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Trolls' look is the end of a chain from webcomics and Adult Swim through Adventure Time to mainstream kids animation. · "So you end up getting things like adventure time that feel more like what adult swim used to feel like than what a children's show used to feel like."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.35)] Shrek ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Trolls has Shrek-distilled humor: self-referential asides for the parents. · "this weird, annoying Shrek, you know, as you say, Shrek, distilled or whatever, like type of humor"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:10:23 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls ↔ Antz (said as 'ants') · lineage · The mismatched-pair quest through the big world is compared to the plot of Antz. · "much like the plot of ants"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:14:02 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cyrano de Bergerac · lineage · The middle of Trolls turns into a gender-flipped Cyrano with the trolls hiding in Bridget's wig. · "And then the movie becomes like Cyrano?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:19:16 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cinderella · lineage · The roller skate left behind makes the Bergen prince plot a Cinderella story. · "So then it becomes a Cinderella thing"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:44:03 · unknown (0.30)] Toy Story 2 ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Branch's grandmother backstory is likened to Jessie's flashback in Toy Story 2. · "they like try to do the like Jesse Toy Story 2."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:48:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Trolls ↔ The Manchurian Candidate · theme · Joke that after watching Trolls he wanted to assassinate a presidential candidate, so maybe there is a Manchurian thing going on. · "I wanted to assassinate a presidential candidate, so maybe there's a whole Manchurian thing happening there too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:23:36 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cabaret · theme · Can't Stop the Feeling starts as a pleasure and by the end feels menacing, like Tomorrow Belongs to Me in Cabaret. · "It's like in cabaret when, you know, when the Nazis all start singing, what's it called?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:45:55 · David Sims (0.75)] Trolls: The Experience ↔ Trolls · contrast · David's text says the experience was practical, engaging and well performed, far better than the movie. · "It was far better than the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:24:30 · David Sims (0.40)] Trolls ↔ La La Land · contrast · City of Stars beat Can't Stop the Feeling and the speaker resents it as the La La Land song; the opening numbers are the film's best. · "I still am so resentful that that's the La La Land song."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:25:01 · unknown (0.40)] Trolls ↔ Moana · verdict · The speaker would have given the Oscar to the Moana song instead, and says Moana could have filled five nominees. · "obviously, I would have picked the Moana song"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:54:07 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cars · industry · DreamWorks bought the Trolls rights as a toy brand, hoping it would be their Cars merchandise engine. · "They're like, this is going to be our cars."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:40:53 · unknown (0.40)] Trolls ↔ Doctor Strange · industry · Trolls (2016) opened the same weekend as Doctor Strange, the election weekend. · "This came out the same weekend as Dr. Strange."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:36:30 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls ↔ Gran Torino · what-if · Joke: what if Clint Eastwood had played the singing grump and sung Gran Torino instead of True Colors. · "Like, what if Clint Eastwood had played the, he likes singing?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:13:10 · unclear (Griffin Newman, David Sims or Richard Lawson) (0.30)] Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ↔ Trolls · craft · The speaker says the one original song Pasek and Paul wrote for Trolls sounds like all their other songs. · "It sounds like all their other songs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:13:23 · unknown (0.35)] Justin Timberlake ↔ Trolls · career · Timberlake was cast as Branch and produced the music; Katzenberg promised him the Elton John role of the movie. · "you get to be the Elton John of this movie and get to be the lead character, even if you are a miscasting."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.40)] Ron Funches ↔ Trolls · career · Funches plays Cooper and returns for the later shows; he was nearly a Blank Check guest. · "Funches is another person who was almost on blank check."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:53:26 · unknown (0.40)] Anand Tucker ↔ Trolls · what-if · An earlier Trolls was to be a musical directed by the Shopgirl director with Chloe Grace Moretz, Jason Schwartzman and Rahman music, and kept being canceled. · "The director of Shopgirl was announced to direct a DreamWorks animated troll movie that was supposed to be a musical"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.40)] A. R. Rahman ↔ Trolls · what-if · The Slumdog Millionaire composer was announced to do music for the earlier musical version. · "A.R. Ramini, the Slumdog Millionaire guy, was announced to be doing the music."
[pairs] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:46:21 · David Sims (0.70)] Trolls · fun · David's text review: the experience was far better, and the movie is like eating mayonnaise straight from the jar. · "This movie is like eating mayonnaise straight from the jar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:47:00 · unknown (0.40)] Trolls · fun · One reaction: the movie feels chemically designed for kids to watch on loop, like Pringles. · "this thing is chemically designed to be played on loop."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:49:04 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls · fun · Released about four days before the 2016 election and four days after Halloween, a missed costume opportunity. · "You have to wait a full year for kids to buy their branch and Cooper costumes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:54:38 · Richard Lawson (0.50)] Trolls · fun · Trolls the dolls: the Russ and Norfin companies, Danish woodcutter origin, then mass-licensed dolls with no mythology. · "there were the 2 companies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:02:10 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls · fun · The Trolls look is described as a CBGB t-shirt bought at Hot Topic versus the vintage one. · "Trolls the movie is like a CBGB's t-shirt bought at a hot topic."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:08:31 · unknown (0.40)] Trolls · fun · The Bergens eat trolls once a year on Trollstice to become happy, treating them like MDMA. · "They use the trolls as like MDMA."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 1:37:35 · David Sims (0.40)] I Am a Camera ⇒ Cabaret (the host's read) · lineage · I Am a Camera, from the Berlin stories, led to Cabaret. · "I am a camera, which is, of course, uh, the Julie Harris movie that will eventually... Come, Camera, inspires the guys into cabaret, yes."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:10:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Cars ↔ The Color of Money · theme · The lesson of Cars and Color of Money is that excellence is in how you use it, not raw skill, and the hosts tie the tagline line to the film. · "And I would say the lesson of cars and the lesson of, uh, the color of money is, uh, it's in the way that you use it."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:23:50 · David Sims (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Cabaret · theme · Fosse's female characters like Sally Bowles and Honey Bruce got rich interior life, which Star 80 lacks. · "I would even argue, honey, Bruce, like, you know, who really is, like, pretty wonderful."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:07:08 · David Sims (0.45)] Doc Hollywood ⇒ Cars (the host's read) · craft · Cars follows Doc Hollywood beat for beat, swapping in a hidden-legend old racer as the town mentor. · "Cars is Doc Hollywood basically beat for beat."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Trolls (2016); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Trolls (2016) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.