A group of college film students set out to make a documentary about a suspected bear poacher, but instead accidentally stumble into the operations of a secret government agency. This agency is tasked with hunting and killing trolls, and in doing do without revealing to the public that these creatures even exist.
Naturally, the students - once they get over their initial derision of the idea that trolls exist at all - quickly realise that this would be a huge scoop for them. And luck is perhaps on their side, for the 'poacher' is actually a disgruntled troll hunter who is tired of his dangerous and poorly recompensed work and more than willing to ruin his employer's day by blowing the lid off this whole thing.
Of course, the authorities are not exactly pleased about this, and it's safe to say that the trolls aren't real keen on humans poking around in their territory, either, so the scoop of a lifetime could also lead to the end of their lifetimes ...
I'm a little torn over how to rate this film because minute-to-minute, Trollhunter is reasonably watchable. However, in the end I feel that the film as an entire work is not satisfying, so I can't give it even a qualified recommendation.
The film's problems are multiple: no explanation is ever given for why the existence of trolls should be kept secret, for instance. Which given the obvious difficulties and expense of maintaining this secrecy, is definitely something I was asking. Then there's the basic through-line of the plot, which is somewhat meandering and just kind of peters out rather than arriving at a meaningful conclusion.
I liked seeing more-or-less traditional Scandinavian trolls turning up on screen, but at the end of the movie I was left asking "wait, is that it?".
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