VIDEO: Watch New ‘Trolls Band Together’ Trailer
The Trolls are at it again, with another colorful adventure!
This week Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation released the first trailer for Trolls Band Together, the third film in the franchise. Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake first voiced Poppy and Branch in 2016, then again in the 2020 sequel Trolls World Tour.
The voice cast for the new film includes Camila Cabello, Eric André, Amy Schumer, Andrew Rannells, Troye Sivan, Daveed Diggs, Kid Cudi, Zosia Mamet, Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, RuPaul Charles, Aino Jawo, Caroline Hjelt, Kenan Thompson, Anderson Paak, Kunal Nayyar and Ron Funches.
In Trolls Band Together, Poppy and Branch are now officially a couple. She discovers he used to be in a boy band (wait – what?) called BroZone with his four brothers: Floyd (Sivan), John Dory (André), Spruce (Diggs) and Clay (Cudi). The group, and their family, split up when Branch was a baby and he hasn’t seen his siblings since.
But, according to the synopsis, when Branch’s bro Floyd is kidnapped for his musical talents by a pair of evil pop-star villains named Velvet (Schumer) and Veneer (Rannells), Branch and Poppy head out on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse than boy-band obscurity.
The trailer features a lot of boy-band jokes, callbacks and references, including nods to One Direction, Boyz II Men and Backstreet Boys — funnier, of course, since NSYNC alumni Justin Timberlake is a lead cast member.
A few years ago Timberlake, 42, said that he hopes they make “seven Trolls movies because it literally is the gift that keeps on giving.” He said at the time, he gets to go to work and create something that’s outside of how he sees himself as an artist. Timberlake said it’s interesting, being able to work in film as an actor and being able to work in music as a performer, singer, songwriter, producer, whatever. He never imagined the two worlds would mesh in an animated film.
Trolls Band Together is scheduled for release November 17, 2023. Here’s the first trailer!
Do You Know Your Social Media Abbreviations?
Social Media Abbreviations are a whole language now.
This might wind up being a test, to either make you feel old – or young if you nail it. Below are the most popular abbreviations people use online.
Millennials and Gen-Zers of the world have taken technology and run with it, which is understandable considering they are the ones who grew up with it literally at their fingertips. They are natives to the worlds of technology, whereas the generations before them are all immigrants to the world of technology.
Do you wonder why so many things are abbreviated now? Believe it or not, people didn’t start abbreviating just to look cool. It actually started because of social media character limits.
Twitter is especially known for this because the platform used to only allow up to 140 characters in a single tweet, leaving lost tweeters to figure out how to make their messages short, sweet and to the point.
As Twitter was mostly being used by millennials and Gen-Zers in the beginning, they started to create their own language, with abbreviations. Twitter now allows up to 280 characters in a tweet, but the abbreviations aren’t going away any time soon, because they have become their own language.
Sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with all the latest slang, but I’m here to help!
So, here are some of the most popular internet abbreviations that are commonly used online, and definitely in text messages, so you don’t have to keep scratching your head in confusion every time you get a text from your kids.
If you’re paying attention even a little, you probably know a lot of these. Like LOL – “laugh out loud,” (no Aunt Mildred, it’s not “lots of love,” but thank you!) and FYI means “for your information”
Great start! But how many of these other ones do you know? Here’s a ranking – we’ll start out easy, then get a little harder.
-Carla Rea
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