I wasn't very impressed, in fact the same as with the first Troll, Sure, the CGI of the creatures looks great and totally works, but to be honest, they look very much like oversized Chewbacca-clones, and apart from the size and the big teeth, they are hardly menacing, but mainly silly with these giant noses and furry beards. The story is paper thin and pretty cliché: the government experimenting in secret on the monster, the stubborn and eccentric professor know-it-all that is flown-in, and then somehow the monster breaks loose, goes rampant and the professor has to come up with some genius scheme to save the world. That this professor herself is totally responsible for the monster to break out, and another scientific lady thwarts the one possibility to nip the troll's escape in the bud, is conveniently overlooked in the rest of the story, as well as the hundreds of casualties that they both cause with their stupid behavior.
The action scenes are fine, like all the chases with helicopters, and the VFX are great. But in between, there are many moments that the pace sags dangerously, the editing could definitely have been more sharp. The dialogues between the main characters aren't razor-sharp either, and the many intended funny lines frequently fall flat. It didn't help that main character Nora (Ine Marie Wilmann) is extremely annoying, all the time behaving cranky and self-righteous and stupid (like standing frozen between the skyscraper-sized legs of two fighting trolls for instance, gazing up at them in almost infatuated rapture!). In short: as an action vehicle and a Godzilla or King Kong clone reasonably entertaining, but nothing more.
