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Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans is a 2021 American computer-animated science fantasy film directed by Johane Matte, Francisco Ruiz Velasco, and Andrew Schmidt, and written by Marc Guggenheim and Dan and Kevin Hageman (who also produced the film).

The film is the finale of the Tales of Arcadia franchise by Guillermo del Toro, which features the television series Trollhunters, 3Below and Wizards.

Following a year after the events of Wizards, the Guardians of Arcadia reunite for the final time as they battle the nefarious Arcane Order, who have reawakened the primordial Titans.

It was released on Netflix on July 21, 2021, and it received generally positive reviews from critics.

Plot
Master Wizard Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan and former Arcane Order member Nari are ambushed by the arrival of the Order in a moving subway train, while former Trollhunter Jim Lake Jr. & his girlfriend Claire Nunez accompany the two. Jim is wounded in a battle against Bellroc, the leader of the Order. Toby Domzaski, Jim’s best friend, accidentally snaps the train’s brakes, causing the train to be unable to stop, and complicating a plan to use 'trifurcate radiation', which was being handled by Prince Krel of planet Akiridion-5, Steve Palchuk and Stuart to render the wizards powerless. When the train is about to go off-track, Douxie conjures magical train tracks, after the radiation beam is broken while Krel and Co. follow the train in Stuart's food truck. When the order finally get their hands on Nari, in a last ditch effort, Douxie switches bodies with Nari, leaving her in his body, with the Order unaware about Douxie’s transmogrification spell. Nonetheless, the Order flees with Douxie (in body the form of Nari).

In a newly rebuilt Camelot, Jim recovers from his wounds, and his mother, Barbara reveals her engagement with Jim’s former teacher and principal, the changeling Strickler. Aja Tarron, queen of the planet Akiridion-5, and Eli Pepperjack arrive in Camelot and reunite with the others. Steve kisses Aja for the seventh time which, Aja reveals, makes him pregnant. Blinky Galadrigal (Jim’s mentor and surrogate father) discusses about the Arcane Order’s plan of reawakening the Titans. The Order will control the beings to converge to the center of the universe (which is the heroes’ hometown, Arcadia Oaks) and unite with a Heartstone (though the titans uniting with a Heartstone isn’t revealed until later on), thus the earth will be reborn back to the age of its first creation, where this time, humanity will cease to exist. Elsewhere, the Order discovers Douxie’s spell and reverts the two back to their normal bodies, but not before Nari alerts Jim "Trollhunter make the ninth configuration, Krohnisfere will make right". The heroes enter the Round Table and discover that the Arcane Order is already preparing a ritual to break the Genesis Seals. The heroes fail to destroy the seals, and the ritual is completed, thus the Titans, each controlled by a different member of the order, have been awakened.

The heroes split up. Claire leads a team (consisting of Blinky, Douxie’s familiar Archie, and Archie’s father Charlemagne) to Hong Kong to acquire the Krohnisfere from a new Trollmarket, where the artifact is at the hands of the leader of the TrollDragons, Zong-Shi; Krel, fellow alien Stuart, Steve, and Eli set off to retrieve Excalibur, while the rest of the heroes try their best effort to defeat the Titans. Both Strickler and his fellow changeling Nomura are killed in battle against the Titans, but Claire’s team manages to acquire the Krohnisfere, as a result Zong-Shi being killed. Jim’s team (consisting of Aja and Toby) arrive in Hong Kong after receiving no contact from Claire’s team. Akiridion General Varvatos Vex, inside a gigantic robotic suit of Gun Robot (a character from a fictional movie series in the franchise), arrives and fights off Bellroc's titan from collapsing the bridge and trapping Claire's team. Despite his best attempts, the suit is destroyed by Bellroc’s Titan, though Vex escapes to safety. Claire’s team manages to escape the Trollmarket, but both Archie & Charlemagne stay behind, trapped by the collapsing of the magical entrance.

The heroes reunite and Douxie restores Nari’s freewill. When asked of the Krohnisfere, Nari tells Jim that "Time unfolds differently, like a flower. Only the Trollhunter will know" before using her Titan to battle and kill Skrael in his Titan, killing herself as well. Bellroc’s Titan is still marching to Arcadia Oaks, because Blinky accidentally skipped a page Merlin's grimoire, but the heroes arrive at the town before them. Jim finally realizes that the ninth configuration is meant to represent him and his friends, who place their hands on the stone which holds the sword, enabling Jim to finally pull Excalibur out of the stone. The heroes come face to face with Bellroc, who proves to be too powerful for the heroes to handle. As Jim is left alone to face Bellroc, he comes to accept that the amulet never made him a hero, he already was one. Jim’s newly improved amulet (created with Akiridion technology, from the original blueprints from which Merlin had used when he first built the amulet and the hilt stone from Excalibur) begins to respond to Jim and flies towards him, giving him a magic/Akiridion armor which can empower Excalibur with greater power. Toby, after remembering the anti-magic radiation generator from their first encounter with the Arcane Order, uses it on Bellroc, giving Jim the opportunity to strike Belloc with Excalibur. Jim finds a fatally hurt Toby, who has been crushed by debris and gave his very last breath to thank his best friends for all of their times together before succumbing, leaving all of the remaining eight heroes in great sorrow.

Remembering Nari's words and realizing that the Krohnisfere is meant for him to travel back in time and prevent any tragic events that happened to him and his dearest of friends, Jim decides to use to return to the very beginning. He gives an emotional farewell and travels back to the morning where he found the mystical amulet. To prevent his longtime best friend’s death, he decides to give the mantle of the Trollhunter to Toby, who finds the amulet under the canals.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The idea of having a movie based on Tale of Arcadia is quite awesome which encourage fans to watch this movie what's happening.
 * 2) The graphics are really a nice step up. (even for 2020s standards) As you could see a great shades of the designs from DreamWorks.
 * 3) You can now see that the badge that Jim holds an amulet shattered in pieces while the man fixed Jim's amulet to get his power back.
 * 4) there's a funny jokes & moments where Toby Domzalski finds a penny on the orientation panel room.
 * 5) The deaths of Toby Domzalski was really heartbreaking due to to the facts he lost too many weights as he was in before.
 * 6) There was a cool & memorable moments where a tale of Arcadia's teams activate The Secret Weapon named Gun Robot which it hips the audiences.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The endings must be the biggest offender to some audiences due to the facts that it ends in a biggest cliffhanger.
 * 2) The deaths except Toby Domzalski while heartbreaking, is wasn't that happy which is just a boring mess & becomes the most biggest plot holes in this movie.
 * 3) The scene where the teams got arrested & got sent into a police department was kind of unfair & dark to some audiences.
 * 4) There's some cruel & sad moments such as The Secret Weapon's Gun Robots getting splatted over by the one of the titans & the scenes where the bridge collapsed.

Reception
Den of Geek reviewed Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans, stating that "Though brimming with stakes, Netflix's final movie installment of Guillermo del Toro's Tales of Arcadia rationalizes rather than justifies its conclusion."

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of eight reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.90/10.

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