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Trolls is a 1994 American animated jukebox musical fantasy comedy film produced by DreamWorks Pictures, based on the Troll dolls created by Thomas Dam. The film was directed by Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells and Mike Mitchell (in his directorial debut), written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (in their theatrical film debuts), produced by Dora Wilson and TBD, and executive produced by Wilson and Steven Spielberg.
The film features the voices of Samantha Mathis, Jason Marsden, John Candy, Danny DeVito, Billy Connolly, Bill Farmer, Julie Andrews, Tress MacNeille, Gilbert Gottfried, Whoopi Goldberg, Kate Higgins, Cheech Marin, June Foray, Don Messick, Charles Nelson Reilly, John Finnegan and John Cleese and is narrated by Hal Douglas.
Being DreamWorks' first animated film to entirely use digital ink and paint, Trolls is also notable for being one of the very first animated films to have pop culture-themed references and humor (following Don Bluth's Rock-a-Doodle and Walt Disney Pictures' Aladdin) and the first featuring pre-existing songs (such as "The Sound of Silence", "Hello", "September" (the later being heard only in the end credits), etc.) into its soundtrack. It also includes original songs such as "Move Your Hair" (which have lyrics and music which would've be later reused in the 2002 song "Move Your Feet"), "Get Back Up Again" and "Can't Stop the Feeling!"; all of these original songs were written by Paul McCartney and Max Martin.
Trolls would be one of the last animated films to have Dora Wilson's direct involvement before her retirement in the same year and selling the studio to Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.
Trolls was released on December 2, 1994. The film received generally positive reviews and was a box-office success, grossing $TBD million worldwide. Trolls had a significant impact on animation and popular culture, being one of the fewer successful non-Disney musical animated films during the Disney Renaissance era. TBD
The film was reissued in theaters in 3D in 2012, with the addition of two new musical numbers: "Animal Life" and "That's How You Know" (the latter reused from the 2007 Walt Disney Pictures film Enchanted, which was used under permission) into the film, and an all-new song "They Don't Know" (sung by singer Ariana Grande), which was added into the edited pizza place/skating rink sequence.