It’s kosher for the grumpy ones to be the more, well, normal. Their opposites, the trolls, in Trolls (2016), are unrealistically always happy. The trolls hug, smile, sing and enjoy life, but the grumpy Bergens cannot stand it. This makes the Bergens, well, more normal indeed.

It’s no wonder why. Who does this? Who sings, hugs, and smiles all the time? No body. I’ve come across no one like this. Well, maybe a bubbly personality here and there, the more outgoing ones. The ones that make you think they are hiding their true feelings when they are alone.

From the outset, Trolls, coming to theaters in North America November 4, is a stretch for me. Starring the voice work of Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick and Gwen Stefani, there is also the promise of plenty of dance and song—in animation—but with the overhanging thought that the trolls in question may just be too good to be true.

Strangely enough, the Bergens like to be happy as well. They are not naturally happy all the time, quite naturally. But they need a ‘top up’ in a kind of way that is bound to make you the viewer sick—while watching an animation (not that you would literally get sick).

The dodgy element in this family film from Dreamworks, who presented to the world the “dodgy” ogre Shrek all those years ago, is that Bergens need to eat trolls to be happy.

That is even stranger than being happy all the time.

But who says Trolls has to be straight forward serious entertainment about the existentialist dilemma of trying to be happy all the time which is hard work most of the time for most people?

Trolls is fun for families and children—it’s bound to put cheer into hearts that embrace the essential theme of Trolls—that being happy is one thing, but being happy together is another. And that is a worthwhile theme for families.