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Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

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“Destiny is a gift. Our loved ones gave their lives, but we are here in this very moment of quiet desperation. We've learned that what feels like a burden pushing down on our shoulders... Is actually a sense of purpose that lifts us to greater heights. Never forget that fear is but the precursor to valor. That to strive and triumph in the face of fear is what makes us heroes. Don't think. Become.”
―The Hero Speech by the Guardians of Arcadia


Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (or simply Rise of the Titans) is a Netflix original film created by Guillermo Del Toro, produced by DreamWorks Animation and Double Dare You Productions. It serves as the grand finale to the Tales of Arcadia franchise, succeeding Trollhunters, 3Below, and Wizards.

The film was released on July 21st, 2021.[1]

Premise[]

Arcadia Oaks may look like an ordinary town, but it lies at the center of magical and extraterrestrial lines that makes it a nexus for many battles among otherworldly creatures including trolls, aliens, and wizards. Now, the heroes from the hit series Trollhunters, 3Below, and Wizards team-up in their most epic adventure yet where they must fight the Arcane Order for control over the magic that binds them all together.[2]

Plot[]

Some time after the events of Wizards, Douxie Casperan, Nari and Archie are ambushed by the arrival of the Arcane Order in a Metro City subway train. Jim Lake Jr., equipped with a serrator, and Claire Nuñez portaled in to provide backup in the ensuing battle. Toby Domzalski accidentally broke the train’s brake lever, which was supposed to stop the train to allow Stuart, Krel Tarron and Steve Palchuk to use trifurcate radiation to nullify the Arcane Order’s magic. While Jim is wounded in battle against Bellroc, the subway train drives off of its tracks and Douxie conjures a magic railroad to lead the train down safely. Afterwards, Bellroc and Skrael threaten to kill a group of humans if the heroes don’t hand over Nari. Douxie discreetly casts a magic spell that switches his and Nari’s consciousnesses and lets the Order take him instead. Krel, with the help of Ricky and Lucy Blank, pose as government agents in order to release Claire, Nari, Toby, and AAARRRGGHH!!! from police custody.

In the newly rebuilt Camelot castle, Jim recovers from his wounds and his mother reveals that she is engaged with Strickler, and the latter asks Jim if he’d be his best man, which he accepts. Both Aja Tarron and a post-pubescent Eli Pepperjack arrive at Camelot from Akiridion-5. While embracing Aja, Steve kisses her, and Aja breaks the news to Steve that “on Akiridion-5, the seventh kiss makes baby,” and that Steve will be pregnant.

All of the Guardians of Arcadia then gather around the Round Table to discuss the Arcane Order. Blinky reads the information from Merlin's Grimoire, which says that the Arcane Order seek to use the previously stolen Genesis Seals to awaken their three Titans, which, when combined in the center of the universe, will make Earth rebirth from the age of first creation. The heroes realize that the center of the universe is their home town, Arcadia Oaks. In said town, Arcadia Oaks High is being rebuilt after the flying castle of Camelot crashed into it. Since the school is destroyed, Coach Lawrence takes the students on a field trip to Arcadia National Park.

Elsewhere, Douxie wakes up in Nari’s body from being unconscious and Bellroc and Skrael attempt to open the Genesis Seals, but their incantation doesn’t work and they realize that they do not actually have Nari in their custody. They warn Douxie that breaking his transmogrification spell will be very painful. While breaking the spell, Nari, in agonizing pain, tells Jim before she’s reverted back to her body that “Trollhunter make Ninth Configuration. Krohnisfere will make right.” After Douxie is returned, the team debates on what Nari’s message could mean, and Stuart asks Jim if he knows since Nari mentioned “Trollhunter.” After reminding him that he isn’t the Trollhunter anymore, Krel gifts him a new, rebuilt amulet made from Akiridion technology and Merlin’s blueprints. Jim graciously accepts it, and then asks Douxie where the Arcane Order is. Douxie describes to the rest of the team where Nari was being held captive. Blinky deduced from his description that she is being held in a roundhouse.

Claire shadow portals them to the location, but there is no sign of the Arcane Order. After searching the room, Douxie has a revelation, that the roundhouse is analogous to how the Amulet mechanizes an incantation, and is a giant mechanical invocation. He performs a magic spell that activates the roundhouse’s gears, which uncovers the Order’s shroud, and reveals Bellroc and Skrael performing the ritual to summon the Titans, with Nari being under Bellroc’s control. The team tries to stop them to no avail, and Jim attempts to use his amulet, but it doesn’t work. The Arcane Order finish their ritual and are sent through the ground to awaken their Titans.

Skrael’s Ice Titan rises from the ground near a telecommunications station in Greenland, Nari’s Titan rises from beneath a Brazilian forest, and Bellroc’s Fire Titan emerges from the South China Sea, taking down a bunch of fishing boats.

The Guardians of Arcadia then began their plan of action. They decided to take Nari at her word. Blinky explains that the last known whereabouts of the Kronisfere was in the possession of a clandestine race of trolls called TrollDragons. Archie says that his dad might have more information. Aja doubted the team’s ability to combat the Titans, and planned to evacuate Earth via the largest Akiridion spacecrafts. A large argument broke out between everyone on whether or not they should fight. Jim broke up the fight, saying that they don’t have time to fight each other, and he needs everyone to trust him and the amulet. Aja begrudgingly agreed saying she’ll do things Jim’s way until the Akiridion ships arrive. Jim speculates that the new amulet needs to carry Merlin’s magic, like the old one. Jim sent Stuart and Krel to retrieve Excalibur, and tells Claire to lead a team to find the Kronisfere. Aja tells Krel that if Jim fails, she will not, and tells Krel to contact Varvatos Vex and deploy their secret weapon. Before all the teams departed, Blinky and AAARRRGGHH!!! said their final goodbyes in case either of them fell. AAARRRGGHH!!! then left with Nomura and Douxie. Jim confessed to Claire that he was doubtful of being able to save the world and that he was worried they would never see each other again. Claire gave him consolation in telling him she would always be in his mind and heart. Toby then walked in and told them that Blinky didn’t know what team to place him in which wasn’t good for his self esteem and Jim told him that Toby is with him and always will be.

Archie visits his father’s den to ask if he has any knowledge on the Kronisfere. Charlemagne tells him that the Kronisfere holds the power of time infinite and tells of the past and future. He tells Archie that it’s in the possession of Zong-Shi, who never averts his gaze from it. Charlemagne denies to help Archie find the Kronisfere, saying it will bring death to those who go looking for it. Archie convinces Charlemagne to assist when he tells him that Blinky would come, since he finds Blinky’s screams hilarious. Charlemagne flies with Archie to Hong Kong with Claire and Blinky riding on his back, and explains that the TrollDragons are wary of sorcery and their lair is resistant to shadow magic. They arrive under Stonecarver Bridge and enter the market after barely escaping a Chinese attack helicopter.

The heroes then make a plan. Jim needs the stone from Excalibur’s hilt for his new amulet and sends Krel, Stuart, Steve and Eli to fetch Excalibur (which is still stuck on the stone), Claire leads a team consisting of Blinky, Archie and Charlemagne to Hong Kong in search for the Krohnisfere, which is in the hands of Zong-Shi, the leader of the TrollDragons in their Trollmarket), and the rest of the heroes try their best to defeat the Titans. Stricklander and Nomura are killed in battles against Nari and Skrael's titans, and Jim’s team (consisting of Toby and Aja) travels to Hong Kong after receiving no contact from Claire’s team. While on their way to the TrollDragons' Trollmarket, Jim’s team discovers that Bellroc’s titan is approaching a bridge until Varvatos Vex arrives in a mecha suit designed by Eli, inspired by Gun Robot, a fictional character from the same universe. Bellroc destroys the mecha suit but Varvatos manages to flee to safety. Jim and Toby manage to rescue Claire’s team and escape the Trollmarket and Jim burns his right hand in the process. However, both Charlemagne and Archie stay behind to fend off an entire army of TrollDragons. The heroes reunite and Douxie manages to get inside Nari’s head, unlocking her free will. Nari, on the side of the heroes, battles with Skrael’s titan and the two kill each other in the ensuing battle.

The heroes discover that Bellroc’s titan is not destroyed by Skrael and Nari’s defeat and is still marching towards Arcadia Oaks. The heroes then realizes that Blinky missed a page that the titans had to unite with the Heartstone, not each other. In addition, if only one titan unites with the Heartstone, the Earth will be reborn from the element that member wields (in this case, Bellroc will remake the world as a desolate land of lava and fire, completely devoid of life). The heroes meet up in Arcadia Oaks, and Jim fails once again to lift Excalibur off of the stone, until he realizes that the Ninth Configuration is meant to represent him and his friends. As his friends place their hands on the stone and surround him, Jim ultimately pulls Excalibur off of the stone, and sends Stuart off to replace the new amulet’s stone with Excalibur’s. All of the heroes struggle to defeat Bellroc in an epic battle. Jim then accepts that the amulet never made him a hero, but that he already was one. The new amulet manages to come towards him, and in new armor, Jim faces off against Bellroc in an epic spar. Meanwhile, Toby rushes the truck, carrying the anti-magic ray, and he uses it stop Bellroc from using their magic, with gives Jim the opportunity to kill Bellroc with Excalibur, causing their titan to fall to the ground. As the heroes celebrate their victory and Steve giving birth to seven babies, Toby is nowhere in sight, and Jim rushes to search for him. He finds that Toby has been crushed by the debris. A dying Toby then takes his last breath, leaving all of the heroes in grief.

Afterwards, Jim realizes that the Krohnisfere was never meant to stop the titans, but to prevent most of the tragedy everyone has been through from happening, and only he will remember what really happened. He gives his last goodbye to everyone before his consciousness and memories travel back to the very same morning where he found the amulet, and resurrects his fallen friends, including Toby. After realizing his friend's worthiness as a hero, Jim decides to allow Toby to take over the mantle of Trollhunter and use his knowledge of the future to ensure a better outcome for himself and his friends.

Voice Cast[]

Additional Voices[]

See full cast at IMDB here

Character Debuts[]

Reception[]

The movie currently has a 88% score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. However, despite the well-received action-packed adventure, the ending was unanimously received with mixed-to-negative reviews from fans as most thought it ruined the whole development of the characters and the themes of the franchise, as well as ending the series on a cliffhanger. Other criticisms include the body counts, Steve’s pregnancy, Aja and Krel getting downplayed, and the pacing.

Trivia[]

  • Rise of the Titans is the first (and only) film of the franchise, and the only installment to not premiere on a Friday.
    • It's also the first DreamWorks Animation feature film to be exclusively distributed by Netflix.
    • Additionally, at about 106 minutes, Rise of the Titans currently has the second longest runtime in DreamWorks Animation's filmography (passing How to Train Your Dragon 3 by about one minute), falling just behind Boss Baby: Family Business, which was released less than a month earlier, running at just over 107 minutes.
  • The movie takes place approximately a year after the events of the Wizards series finale, as confirmed by Aaron Waltke.
    • The confirmation could also mean one year after the start of Trollhunters meaning around 3-5 months after Wizards.
  • According to Guillermo Del Toro on the Netflix Summer Movie Preview, the movie is about "escaping to somewhere new".
  • According to Marc Guggenheim in an interview with Animation Magazine, the film starts with an exposition prologue (narrated by Kelsey Grammer as Blinky and Emile Hirsch as Jim) so viewers who have not seen the whole trilogy won't be confused.
    • It is also mentioned in the interview that the original plan was to involve all three shows into a climax, but the team didn’t know if it would take the form of a feature film or an extended season of Wizards. Ultimately, they decided to make it a feature film as "a way to tell this story on the scope that [the writers] wanted and have the story be as big as [they] aspired it to be".
  • When Toby exclaims "We're gonna need a bigger castle", this is a parody of the famed line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" from the blockbuster 1975 film Jaws.
  • According to Marc Guggenheim in an interview with Collider, when deciding on the ending, they didn’t want an anticlimactic ending with the main characters going off to college. They decided on the timeline reset idea because it could avoid the anticlimactic ending and allow them to reset the universe. Although, they didn’t want the audience to feel cheated, so they decided to make sure all of the events in the original timeline still occurred regardless by making Jim the only one who remembers to ensure the ending wasn’t a complete cop-out.
    • Also, according to Aaron Waltke on Discord, Guillermo Del Toro has made plans to pitch a series of shorts for the rest of the franchise, but it's unknown when or if they'll be in development.
  • When Steve got pregnant and named seventh child Eli Jr. Reference from the Comedy 1994 film, Junior.
  • The Krohnisphere is a reference to the Time Stone from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • Continuity Error:
    • In "Becoming: Part 1" Jim wakes up to his alarm clock at 6 AM. At the beginning of the alternate timeline, Jim wakes up to his alarm at 8 AM.
      • Plausibility: These "continuity errors" were presumably intentional to show the audience proof that this is a new timeline. Toby doesn't show up once Jim picks up the trash and he was shown climbing a rope in gym class with ease, which he originally failed to do so.
    • In "Becoming: Part 2" Jim tries out for the school play (three days after he finds the Amulet). But in the new timeline the auditions happen on the day he comes back ("Becoming: Part 1")
      • Plausibility: However, this may be because the auditions were spread out among multiple days, or Jim’s second time doing his audition at the end of the movie takes place on the same day as his first.
    • In 3Below, Krel says that the center of the universe is trillions of light-years away from the Earth. Here, Blinky says that Arcadia Oaks is the center of the universe.
      • Plausibility: Earth is considered the center of the universe here because it is the center of magical and supernatural events, likely influenced by the fact that under Arcadia is the last surviving primordial Heartstone.
    • In Wizards, the Arcane Order are described as primordial demigods, which are either half-human half-god or simply lower-tier gods. Here, they're described as the creators of the universe itself with the Titans as their handmaidens.
      • Plausibility: It could be because primordial demigods are different in this universe. Bellroc, Skrael, and Nari could merely be earthbound physical gods whose primordial powers were near-omnicient and used their Titans to create life on Earth. Presumably, their god-like magics were trapped inside the Genesis Seals through unknown means billions of years ago, sending their Titans into stasis.

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Soundtrack[]

Transcript[]

Main article: Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans/Transcript

Franchise Index[]

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

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Trollhunters
(Part One) 		Trollhunters
(Part Two) 		Trollhunters
(Part Three) 		3Below
(Part One) 		3Below
(Part Two) 		Wizards Rise of the
Titans
Defenders of Arcadia

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References[]

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/1371564786194915328
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans’ Movie Scheduled for 2021. Variety (August 7th, 2020). Retrieved August 7th, 2020.
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