Trollhunters Season 1

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

The animated series from Guillermo Del Toro begins with 15-year-old Jim Lake (voiced by the late Anton Yelchin) finding an amulet that grants him the right to become a Trollhunter, a protector of the underground trolls that includes Blinky (Kelsey Grammer).

Guillermo del Toro’s kaleidoscopic imagination is on full display in Trollhunters, a rich gift of an animated series arriving on Netflix later this month. It’s in the depiction of trolls as hulking and metamorphic (yet predictably endearing) creatures, birthed seemingly from the earth itself, shoulders erupting in sprouts of grass or smoothly carved from dark obsidian. It’s in the visualization of said trolls’ subterranean world, a crystalline treasure-trove kingdom that draws upon every vivid shade the animators’ palettes had available (and likely created a few). And yet del Toro’s approach and ideology are most evident not just in those striking optical executions but also in the sense of astonishment and joy with which the series itself regards them.

Trollhunters is rightly a thing of youthful wonderment, a show that’s enamored of its own candy-colored vision and fully expects the family crowd it’s targeting will share the sentiment. And del Toro has the goods to back up such confidence, delivering an ebullient and deeply satisfying piece of kid-friendly fantasy that draws upon Nordic mythology, Arthurian lore, and Amblin-hued storytelling in winning fashion. In the late Anton Yelchin, who voices protagonist Jim Lake with earnest awe and increasing gallantry, del Toro has also found (and, in a painful reality beyond the confines of this fantastical show, lost) his perfect creative partner.

Yelchin’s voice, you see, is the kind of addition that makes a series like Trollhunters truly sing. Warm, friendly, shamelessly sensitive, and imbued with deep feeling, it elevates Jim into a memorable, likeable character almost instantly. It helps that del Toro and company have written Jim as a classic Yelchin character – a good-natured, out-of-his depth teen trying to balance high school life with the unexpected call of duty.

– Isaac Feldberg

There is a scene in a later episode of Trollhunters where an enemy invades Jim’s (the late Anton Yelchin) home, drugs his unsuspecting mother, and goads Jim into a battle. Jim rushes outside to cross swords with the intruder, only to stop and pivot back to the dining room in order to remove his snoring mom’s glasses and gently set them on the table so the frames won’t get bent. Satisfied, he goes to battle. Small human moments like these elevate Trollhunters from a painfully generic hero’s journey into an enjoyable and worthwhile adventure.

-Nick Wanserski

DVD Wholesale Main Features :   

Format: Animated, Box set, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Portuguese (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: Portuguese, French, Spanish
Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 4
Rated: NR Not Rated
Studio: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: November 7, 2017
Run Time: 588 minutes
ASIN: B07576BWFV