Trolls Band Together (2023)
There are some new trolls on the block.
When Branch's brother, Floyd, is kidnapped for his musical talents by a pair of nefarious pop-star villains, Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse than pop-culture obscurity.
In Trolls Band Together, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “troll music world”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, harmony, music, exploitation, identity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)E8/E9 · family, identity
Abominable (2019)E8/E9 · family, identity
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005)E8/E9 · family, identity
The Smurfs 2 (2013)E8/E9 · exploitation, identity
James and the Giant Peach (1996)E8/E9 · exploitation, family
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)E8/E9 · family, identitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Son of Bigfoot (2017)consciousness in monsters · cryptid forest
Minions (2015)consciousness in monsters · minion quest
Onward (2020)consciousness in monsters · elfic suburbia
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)consciousness in monsters · monster society
The Grinch (2018)consciousness in monsters · holiday town
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)consciousness in monsters · monster cruiseSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)consciousness in animals · exploitation, family
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)consciousness in animals · family, identity
Christopher Robin (2018)consciousness in objects · exploitation, family
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)consciousness in aliens · exploitation, family
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)consciousness carried elsewhere · exploitation, family
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)consciousness in aliens · family, identity
