Music snobbery is making a comeback.
On the heels of the excellent serial remake of
“High Fidelity,” about a tasteful Brooklyn record
store owner, comes “Trolls World Tour,” in which
different pixie clans each representing a music
genre vie for sonic domination. Both are quaint
in their own way, pretending that our musical
borders didn’t years ago disintegrate into a
digital soup.
“Trolls World Tour,” a sequel to the 2016
DreamWorks original, had been planned
for theatrical release before the coronavirus
pandemic. On Friday, Universal Pictures instead
released it straight into the home, as a $19.99
digital rental — a rare breaking of the theatrical
release window by a major studio.