A Troll in Central Park (1994)

This is another movie that I saw years and years ago that I still love today. It's that good of a movie (you never get sick of it). The music makes you want to sing along but not in a cheesy, corny kind of way, the animation is grilled to perfection, and the plot is brilliant for toddlers, which we all know have active imaginations. It's also thoroughly underrated (it didn't even make a million dollars at the box office). I don't know why because it's such a great movie. If you have a toddler who's hankering for something to watch that they'll enjoy, I recommend this movie. It may have not been the most successful movie in the world (an understatement), but, in my opinion, it's a stunning classic.

Fmovies: I disagree with spider63. I happened upon this movie switching channels one day and after just a few minutes I was hooked. I loved Dom DeLuise's voice in this. I can see where some folks may think it a little corny and it does have an older movie feel. But the story kept me glued to the TV and I hope to get a copy of it one of these days. It's a darling movie and refreshing to see something enjoyable as this. Just the sound of a big glob of marshmallows as spider63 suggested made me hungry enough to open a jar of marshmallow fluff and sit down to my computer and look for a copy of this out on the internet. It will not be a waste of time if you like movies such as frosty the snowman and other Christmas stories of the past!

This movie is for those who have not been tainted by societies cruelness. It shows young children they can have dreams and defeat those who have negativity towards them as long as they stay true to themselves. It shows patience and kindness; something that we all need just a little bit of. It shows we can be forgiven without strings attached. This is a family movie with family values.

The music is thoughtful and has a go green attitude if you read between the lines we need to consider our environment treat it with love and care. Like you would or should treat your family.

I love this movie it makes me feel good inside.

A Troll in Central Park fmovies. This is a great movie... if you are a kid. If not, this movie will seem very boring and corny at times. I remember seeing this movie as a child, and thought it was very good, some scenes made me cry. But when I look back at the movie, it seemed to have lost that magic. Stanley, the troll, loves flowers, is cute and so are Gus and Rosie. However, I thought the music was terrible, and the smiley flowers annoyed me. The plot is really predictable, and the movie goes too far with the villain. I though Gnorga was annoying especially with the "I hate flowers" thing.

Don Bluth has had his share of ups and downs in his long career. But this piece of dreck marks the only time he has truly hit rock bottom.

I hesitate to use the word "movie" to describe this bomb because this is not really a film. It is a lame idea loosely tied together with bad songs and some of the most saccharine padding and filler you will ever see in you're life.

The title character is played by Dom DeLuise (a good actor) and he does what he can with the role but this character is hopeless. He's one dimensional, annoying and just plain bland. The film's worst performance is a tie between Cloris Leachman and Charles Nelson Reilly who play the monarchs of the Kingdom of Trolls. Not only do they seem to grunt their lines, but they talk over each other! I mean, come on! Why make a movie where you can barely understand or hear what the characters are saying? The rest of the cast is pretty disposable. I personally think Jonathan Pryce should have played King Llort but that's just me.

But it's not all bad. Some of the songs are OK, DeLuise does what he can and the animation is typical Bluth: lush and beautiful.

But in the cold light of day, this dreck is simply an insult to the art of animation.

This has to be one of the most pointless and boring animated feature films of all time. Don Bluth had directed some stinkers in the past, but this was by far the worst. By the end of the movie, it feels like nothing happened. The animation is a step down from Bluth's previous films, and the character designs and animation are just terribly loose. The only real positives about this are the voice over acting, and the lively musical score, despite only having bad songs.

Stanley the troll (Dom Deluise) is unlike the other trolls. He's more interested in planting flowers and making the world pretty, where the other trolls only want to cause misery. The trolls have black thumbs that turn things to stone, but Stanley has a green thumb for bringing plants to life. When Queen of the trolls, Gnorga (Cloris Leachman), finds out about Stanley being a good troll, she shoots him up in the air, and he lands in Central Park. Meanwhile, a little boy Gus wants his dad to take him to the park, but his dad is busy, so he and his infant sister Rosie go off on their own. They meet Stanley, and go on a stupid adventure with him, while Gnorga is hot on their tail, and for some reason wants them all out of the picture.

Babies will probably have a good time watching this, though some parts may be too scary. Older kids will despise this, unless it has a nostalgia factor to them, which it does to me, and I still hate it. Everything is overly corny, and cheesy and sappy. The plot....heck, what plot. It's pretty much just, little boy and girl go to park, meet troll, he teaches them about imagination, bad troll comes in, chaos ensues. The songs in the movie are really bad, which is weird because the musical score is quite pretty. The voice over acting is actually pretty good, with Cloris Leachman in an almost unrecognizable voice over role, Charles Nelson Reilly doing the same likable voice he'd done in so many other cartoons and Dom Deluise with his normal, over the top voice. Other than the music and voices though, this is an utterly ridiculous movie.

I dislike the beginning, and I downright despise the ending of this sappy kiddie junk that should have had less put into the direction, and more into the writing.

My rating: * out of ****. 75 mins. G.