What the corpus says about Trolls: The Experience

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Trolls: The Experience 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: The Experience 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 · 0:14:26 · Richard Lawson (0.50)] Trolls: The Experience ↔ Downton Abbey (TV series) · programming · The experience sat in the same Midtown space once occupied by a Downton Abbey experience, a pattern of high-ticket interactive pop-ups. · "For about a year or two, I believe this same space was occupied by Downton Abbey, the experience."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:45:30 · Richard Lawson (0.70)] Trolls: The Experience ↔ Memento · programming · Richard says doing the experience before watching the film was like Memento, a reverse order. · "I'm glad we did the experience first, like memento."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:28:59 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls: The Experience ↔ The Crystal Maze (TV game show) · lineage · The glitter tube recalled the Crystal Maze finale where contestants grab blown paper inside a giant crystal. · "There was a in Britain, there is the crystal maze, which the final showdown was that you would get inside a giant crystal and they'd blow paper and you had to grab it."
[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 · 0:39:10 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls: The Experience ↔ Reggie Watts · craft · The mixtape station layers touch-triggered sounds into a song, which they call a sculptural Reggie Watts concert. · "It was a sculptural Reggie Watts concert in the world of trolls."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:13:47 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls: The Experience · fun · The three adult men without children felt like unaccompanied adults at a kids pop-up around the corner from Carnegie Hall. · "We were accompanied only by our shame."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:15:31 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls: The Experience · fun · Joke that every staffer was a former Downton Abbey cast member: Maggie Smith answering questions in the gift shop, Jim Carter ripping tickets. · "That's why Jim Carter was the one who ripped our tickets."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:20:08 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls: The Experience · fun · They were staggered into a slot away from children, and the staff covered every station at once to get them through. · "It became clear that they were trying to isolate us from children."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:23:44 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls: The Experience · fun · Four quests: makeover, mixtape in a flower garden, glitter tube, whack-a-snake game. The three men broke the touchscreen record, built for six-year-olds. · "it turns out that these activities were designed for six-year-olds."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:25:46 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Trolls: The Experience · fun · The tour guide gave them the full kids' performance, forcing them to meet her halfway. · "she extended the social contract to us and we had to like meet her halfway."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:43:33 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls: The Experience · fun · The party room had a 3D screen, and they were told to scream at a snake; none of their friends with kids knew the snake. Joke that the experience is deeply Christian. · "I think Charles the experience is deeply Christian, and the snake was meant to represent Satan."
[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"
[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
[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'

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: The Experience; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Trolls: The Experience 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.