Overview
Trolls World Tour is a 2020 American animated musical comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation, based on the Good Luck Trolls dolls created by Thomas Dam. The sequel to Trolls (2016) and the second installment in the Trolls franchise, the film was directed by Walt Dohrn and co-directed by David P. Smith, from a screenplay by Maya Forbes, Wallace Wolodarsky, Elizabeth Tippet, and the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, and a story by Aibel and Berger. The film features Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Ron Funches, James Corden, Icona Pop, Kunal Nayyar, Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Dohrn reprising their roles from the first film, with Rachel Bloom, Kelly Clarkson, Anderson .Paak, Sam Rockwell, George Clinton, and Mary J. Blige joining the cast. The film follows Queen Poppy and Branch as they discover more troll tribes that represent music genres other than their own. Troubles arise when Queen Barb of the Hard Rock Trolls (Bloom) plans to overthrow the foreign music genres to unite the Trolls under rock music, prompting Poppy and Branch to unite the tribes and stop her before all the trolls are converted into Hard Rock Trolls.