Ine Marie Wilmann
Nora Tidemann
Overview
When a dangerous new troll unleashes devastation across their homeland, Nora, Andreas and Major Kris embark on their most perilous mission yet.
Cast
12 people
Reviews
2 min readThe Weight of the Moss
Sequels to giant-monster movies tend to obey one basic law: if the first film had one enormous creature, the second better cough up another so the audience can watch them trade blows. The MonsterVerse has been dining out on that logic for years, turning urban destruction into a kind of competitive event. Troll 2 follows the same path. Roar Uthaug brings us back to a Norway still rattled by its first run-in with a walking mountain, and three years after the original became an unlikely global hit, he scales everything up in a way that feels much closer to polished franchise filmmaking.
It's undeniably bigger. I'm just not convinced bigger helps it.
When we meet Nora Tidemann again, she's holed up in a remote cabin under heavy snow, looking more and more like the folklore-obsessed hermit her father used to be. Ine Marie Wilmann keeps Nora grounded by playing her as a woman permanently braced for bad news. Watch what happens to her shoulders when government adviser Andreas (Kim Falck) arrives—she never quite unclenches, as if she knows civilization is held together by thinner thread than everyone else does.
Audience Opinions
Audience 5.3/10
"Spectacular trolls and big-scale chaos collide with thin writing, clumsy character logic, and underwhelming monster-on-monster action."
Creature design and large-scale destruction are widely praised, with the trolls described as majestic and the overall feel delivering a fun, escapist monster romp for those who enjoy kaiju-style mayhem. At the same time, the story is seen as smaller and more predictable than the first film, with irritating character decisions, a controversial holy-water twist, and a brief, anticlimactic troll-versus-troll showdown that does not live up to the build-up.
What viewers praise
- Impressive troll effects The trolls are described as highly detailed and majestic, with effects work that feels on par with large Hollywood monster franchises.
- Entertaining monster chaos The movie works as mindless, popcorn-style fun with plenty of giant-creature mayhem and big destructive set pieces.
- Enjoyable return of characters Returning leads and familiar dynamics provide continuity and emotional beats that some find satisfying and heartfelt.
- Fun Norse-myth flavor The world of Norwegian folklore and hints of wider mythological creatures make the setting appealing and distinctive.
Common complaints
- Irritating protagonist choices Nora and others are criticized for reckless, illogical actions that unleash danger, cause deaths, and show little believable remorse.
- Predictable, convenient plotting The story is often described as cheesy, painfully predictable, and reliant on convenient devices like the holy-water solution.
- Weak troll-versus-troll payoff The much-hyped conflict between two trolls is short, poorly staged, and far less exciting than promotional material implies.
- Step down from first film Compared with the original, this sequel feels smaller, more generic, and overly serious while offering less freshness and depth.
- Divisive thematic choices Some viewers dislike perceived anti-religious and political undertones, feeling they distract from the monster-movie fun.
Recommended for
Kaiju and giant monster fans Casual creature-feature viewers Norwegian fantasy adventure watchers Norse mythology worldbuilding enjoyers People who liked Troll (2022)
Full Plot (Spoilers)
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Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsWrong Troll 2. Right monster movie.
Fangoria had to put it in the headline. TROLL 2, Not That One. TMDB 1180831 is Roar Uthaug's 2025 Norwegian Netflix sequel to the 2022 kaiju hit Troll, with Ine Marie Wilmann back as paleontologist Nora Tidemann. Kim Falck and Mads Sjogard Pettersen return. Sara Khorami joins as Marion. The original language is Norwegian. The date is 1 December 2025. If someone in your group chat is quoting a Utah forest goblin movie from 1990, they have the wrong film. 
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Netflix ordered the sequel in September 2023 after the first film did 103 million views in 91 days and sat as the streamer's most watched non-English movie. Uthaug, writer Espen Aukan, and Motion Blur producers Espen Horn and Kristian Strand Sinkerud all came back. Sinkerud had already told What's on Netflix they wanted a sequel, "and perhaps two sequels." Principal photography ran in 2024 across Trondheim, Maridalen, Jotunheimen, Rjukan, Hemsedal, and Budapest. NRK quoted Uthaug calling it, without much doubt, the largest Norwegian film ever made. Wikipedia repeats the Nordic-production superlative. TMDB lists an $11.2 million budget, which is either a bargain or a rounding error depending on how many digital trolls you count. 
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Two trolls, because one was getting lonely.
Uthaug told Tudum the fan base made the scale possible. "We were able to make it bigger this time around, so it was a no-brainer that we needed two trolls." Marketing nicknamed the new threat Megatroll. The story calls it Jotun. A friendlier giant, Beautiful, gets talked into a fight. Variety sat Uthaug next to Netflix Nordic VP Jenny Stjernstromer Bjork on opening day and let him trace the whole franchise to a Theodor Kittelsen drawing of a troll walking Karl Johan Street. Larry Tanz, Netflix's EMEA chief, kept repeating the same note. The first movie was "super Norwegian." ,
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Critics split. Rotten Tomatoes landed at 61 percent from 18 reviews. Simon Abrams at RogerEbert.com gave it two stars and said the sequel lacked canned incident. Audiences did not care. For the week ended 7 December, Troll 2 posted 29.3 million views and 51.2 million hours, number one on the global non-English film chart and, per Media Play News, number one across all Netflix titles that week. The 2022 original rode the wave back to 5.3 million views. Nordisk Post had the sequel topping 59 countries. Variety's interview already floated a threequel in the headline. Nobody has announced it. A mid-credits baby troll is doing the announcing for them. The official trailer is still two giants, snow, and a city square. [1], , , [10]
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