★★★

With more sparkles than an Liberace tribute act, the third Trolls film is the franchise’s trippiest yet. A mind boggling feature of the sort students will one day discover to be best experienced while high as kites. Few films this year will offer cinematography so chromatically effervescent, nor a soundtrack so mercilessly upbeat. It’s hard to imagine any other family flick this decade will force the BBFC to warn of ‘sex references’ – and they are pretty darn filthy when you spot them. Yup, Band Together is, without question, total mayhem. Hogwash too. Broken down, the film is incoherently plotted, structurally baffling and tonally nauseating. More notably, however, it is also cinematic Stockholm Syndrome in action. These Trolls (still) just want to have fun and their joie de vivre is (still) hugely infectious.