Why is troll 2 so bad

Director Fragasso has taken a lot of stick for turning in a film this bad but again I have to disagree that it's the worst directed film ever because it's clearly not, I have seen or should that be endured? Made for a couple of hundred thousand dollars Troll 2 has weak production values, it looks cheap mainly because it is although I think it has a certain charm.

Shot in a town called Porterville in Utah apparently. George Hardy is now a successful dentist apparently. Troll 2 is an unbelievable film, it's a film words simply can't do justice. FlashCallahan 7 November Joshua's family takes a trip to Nilbog, which, unbeknown to them, is the kingdom of the goblins, as told to young Joshua by his grandfather Seth, who just happens to be dead. Now it's up to Josh, magical time stopping Grandpa Seth, and a bologna sandwich to save the family from the evil Goblin Queen, who uses everything from magical rocks to an ear of corn, to destroy Josh's family This was on MGM HD the other night, and i had to give in and watch it, and while it's not the worst film ever made, it's the kind of film that makes you feel depressed when watching it.

Some of the acting is beyond awful. The mother is just plain disturbing from the upstart, never before have I seen a person with one facial expression through a movie. The first act of the movie is solely watchable just for the awfulness of the acting, nothing to do with the set up of the movie. And then we finally reach Nilbog, where people are dumb, and the camera man decides to do close ups of vegetable cookbooks.

I can really believe the cult following that this movie has gained, because it's so richly full of bad things, you really have to endure it to believe it. From the flirting with corn scene, right up to the famous 'their gonna eat me' scenes, right up to the advice Grandpa gives the young lad, so he decides to urinate over the food, this has it all. Devoid of emotion, but good for laughs, Trolls 2 is epic in it's badness. I feel a better person for sitting through this trite, but there is no way in my life I will ever watch this again.

See it, because you have to see it, and witness the apocalypse. Aaron 11 February How bad is it? It is very bad indeed This one has nothing at all to do with the first "Troll"; the only thing they share in common is their name. In fact, I think they refer to the creatures in this one as goblins rather than trolls. A couple of other things the two movies have in common is the family moving to a new place, though it was only supposed to be temporary here, and the old lady that lets her hair down and is mysteriously hot.

Here it is very pointless and stupid, and the only good I can say of it is that the woman is hotter than the one from part one. Here we have people drinking really bad milk and becoming plants or something and the goblins chow down on this. Not as good as it sounds this movie is just so bad. Don't watch it, you are not missing anything here Packing up and heading out for a "month in the country" to "live like farmers", the Waits' travel to the town of Nilbog get it?

Unbeknownst to them, hell awaits! Sort of. This movie is the true north of magnificent ultra-schlock! From the universe's worst rendition of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", to the idiot Waits clan, to the brain-drubbing plot, T2 delivers like no other!

No, really, these guys will make you homicidal! Her tickling chainsaw! Her corncob! PLUS: A completely unnecessary, ungodly overuse of green slime!

An eeevil, hillbilly preacher! Spontaneous, vegetarian dancing! Don't forget Sheriff Freak Gary Carlson! The windy seance! Oh, the list goes on and on! No one in this film has an iota of charisma or appeal!

Still, we cannot turn away! Outrageously inept! Outlandishly insipid! And yet Don't attempt to make sense of it, just go with it. As with a terminal case of posterior warts, it's best to simply give in and succumb to it. HumanoidOfFlesh 19 March The acting is ridiculously bad,the dialogue is even worse,and the so called "goblins" are cheesy looking. The main character Joshua played by Michael Stephenson makes an amazing discovery as the small city of Nilbog is actually Goblin spelled backwards.

Then we have Joshua's grandpa,who can somehow predict the future and guide our young hero through this tragedy. The film is filled with lots of laugh-out-loud moments:my favourite is when bad boy Joshua pisses on hospitality I mean food.

Of course "Troll 2" doesn't have any trolls,just a bunch of funny looking goblins with laughable masks and costumes made by Laura Gemser. Give this amusing crap a look.

This film is truly one of its kind! Oh, my God, where do I even begin with this film that hasn't already been said? Troll 2 is so famous that I think it can't be considered a cult film any more as it's gone more mainstream. Again, how I never saw this film until last night I don't know.

I've heard so much about these Troll movies that it's just crazy how a film so bad has such a huge reputation. The Room by Tommy Wiseau has recently taken over the "king of good bad movies" crown but I had to see who was the former king and Troll 2 often came up in the conversation.

Now of course due to YouTube the most famous scene being the "They're eating her and then they're going to eat me! Oh, my Goooooood! But this film is so much more than that: horrifically bad acting, awful special effects, a weird "plot", bad writing and just craziness ensues. Joshua Waits is being contacted by his dead Grandpa Seth. Seth informs Joshua of evil creatures known as goblins roaming the world who force or trick humans into consuming poisoned food which will turn them into the goblin's favorite type of food, vegetables.

The goblins would then eat them. Meanwhile Joshua's sister, Holly, receives a visit from her boyfriend Elliot. She accuses him of spending too much time with his friends. Since she and the rest of the family are going to Nilbog for a holiday, he offers to meet her on the way. She agrees but under the condition that he will come alone without his friends. However, Elliot does not turn up at their meeting point and Holly's parents, Michael and Diane, go on without him.

They meet him further up the route but she angrily dismisses him since he is accompanied by his friends. A meal has been prepared at the house where they are staying, but Joshua's grandfather shows up again and freezes time for thirty seconds, giving Joshua a chance to stand up on the table and urinate on the food, and thus prevent his family from eating.

Meanwhile one of Elliot's friends, Arnold, goes out for a walk and meets a woman being pursued by the goblins. Running away, they enter the house of the goblins' druid leader, Creedence, who uses the "Stonehenge Magic Stone" to give the goblins power. Creedence dupes the two into drinking a magic potion which causes the woman to disintegrate into a puddle of vegetable matter which is then eaten by the goblins, and now we know why everyone in the town is so eager to make the family eat their food, even though they're not so subtle about it.

I don't know who was the worst actor in here but I'd say the leading contender is Deborah Reed who plays Creedence, the leader bad troll, I guess it was one of those "non acting" days. She was beyond over the top making you wonder what she was inhaling before each shoot.

Not to mention that they say they're vegetarian trolls, yet are turning human meat into vegetables, I mean, any vegan opinions? Bologna is their ultimate enemy and is by far the weirdest way to defeat an evil monster.

I would say this movie is definitely a miracle, how it was created, who knows? Any of the actors or writers realize how bad this was while shooting it? I suppose I should see the documentary "Best Worst Movie" in order to find out, but the question is even if I want to see it?

I still need to recover from Troll 2, all I can say is that after I finished watching this movie I finally snapped out of my mind set to see that I had been robbed and was sitting on the floor and the robber left a note saying how he felt bad for me that I was watching Troll 2 and that I would have no meaning for life any more after viewing it.

Red-Barracuda 3 October And I thought comedy was dead This is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. Undeniably, it is not intended to be funny. But my word, what can I say?

The film opens with a man wearing a pointy hat being chased by what appears to be Yoda's inbred cousins. The pointy hat man falls and is revived by a girl with disturbing freckles. To be helpful, she offers him a bowl of green gunge. Naturally, pointy hat man drinks the green gunge without a second's thought. He then turns into a tree. This tragic story has been recounted by Grampa Seth to his irritating grandson, Joshua. It turns out Grampa Seth is a ghost who has extensive knowledge of goblins and their evil green food.

Joshua and his cretinous family set off for a vacation as part of a house exchange with a family of retards who live in the town of Nilbog. Thoughtfully, the retard family have left a selection of hideous green cakes for them to eat. Unfortunately, Grampa Seth appears and hints to Joshua that having a waz on them might be a good idea.

Close behind them, following in a camper van, is his sister's boyfriend and his boyfriends, I mean friends. One by one the boys encounter many terrible things. Dork 1 sees a terrified girl in the woods, to reassure her he chases her and jumps on top of her. He then meets a woman from Stone Henge, who sounds like she is from Transylvannia, who turns him into a plant. And puts him in a pot. Dork 2 meets a policeman called Sheriff Freak who drops him off in town in the middle of a group of men with moustaches.

Dork 3 has a grisly encounter with popcorn. However, one thing Packard did have a completely clear mind on was that he hated Michael Paul Stephenson, who played the child, Josh, in the movie. Claudio Fragrasso, the director of the movie, spoke little to no English during the production of the movie, and neither did his wife, Rosella Drudi, who wrote the script. The dialogue in the script was all broken English, so the actors thought it was a good idea to form their own sentences around what was written in the screenplay.

Fragrasso was outraged by this and told them to speak the dialogue as-is, claiming that he knows how Americans talk better than any of them. His attempt to save his beloved family is assisted by the specter of his deceased grandfather. The town is eventually overrun by the creatures who plot to exterminate all the citizens and kill all of humanity.

From Awful Movies Wiki. Troll 2. A straight-faced Rossella Drudi — who conceived the baffling story as a rather extreme riposte to her friends' veggie agenda — once even described it as a "ferocious analysis of today's society.

Of course, the film's unorthodox shoot meant it was always destined for home video hell. In fact, costume designer Laura Gemser — who'd previously starred in erotic franchise Emmanuelle just to add to all the randomness — was the only crew member able to clearly communicate with the all-American cast. Despite this, Fragasso insisted that the actors recite his preposterous script verbatim, even when they pointed out that no other human would ever utter lines such as "I'm the victim of a nocturnal rapture.

You can't blame the language barrier, however, for all of Troll 2 's general sense of WTF? Why is there a frantic dance routine that redefines the term second-hand embarrassment? Why is Arnold Darren Ewing transformed into a tree instead of disgusting green goo?

And why does Joshua Stephenson decide the only way to prevent his family from chowing down on their poisoned food is by urinating all over it? Even an ensemble of Oscar winners would struggle to make such incoherent material convincing. So it's inevitable that the cast of amateurs plucked from an open small-town audition flounder spectacularly. George Hardy was and still is a practicing dentist when he landed the role of Michael, the father figure responsible for the film's most immortal line "You can't piss on hospitality".

Even more remarkably, creepy store owner Sandy was played by Don Packard, a stoned mental patient on day release who later admitted to murderous thoughts about his youngest co-star.