Troll 2

Story:

The Norwegian monster movie Troll 2 was written by Espen Aukan and directed by Roar Uthaug in 2025. Kim S. Falck-Jørgensen and Mads Sjøgård Pettersen reprise their roles in this Troll sequel, which also features Sara Khorami, Jon Ketil Johnsen, Gard B. Eidsvold, Aksel Almaas, and Trond Magnum. It narrates the tale of Nora Tidemann, Andreas Isaksen, and Kristoffer Holm, who band together to battle Jotun, another enormous troll, and make friends with another enormous troll who assists them in doing so. When Netflix instructed the team to produce a follow-up to Troll, work on Troll 2 got underway. In 2024, Uthaug and Aukan returned as directors and writers, respectively, and principal photography got underway. In January 2025, a teaser was made public. Troll 2, which was shot in Budapest, Trondheim, Maridalen, and Jotunheimen, is the biggest movie ever made in the Nordic region. On December 1, 2025, Troll 2 was made available on Netflix. Critics gave the movie conflicting reviews.

Plot

Tobias Tidemann tells his daughter Nora that trolls and humans used to coexist peacefully until the Christian King Olaf drove away the majority of Norway’s trolls by exposing them to the sun, then imprisoned the Troll King and his progeny underground.

Three years after her meeting with the Troll King, thirty years later, Nora resigned from her position researching trolls for the Norwegian government and now lives alone in a distant hut. Andreas Isaksen pays her a visit and requests her assistance in handling a recent find. They fly to Vemork and infiltrate Marion Rhadani’s top-secret underground research centre, which is home to ancient records penned by Olaf and a hibernating troll known as “Jotun”.

Nora approaches the sleeping Jotun while singing a song that Tobias taught her as they reunite with Professors Møller and Wangel. Møller departs with a sample from Jotun, but Jotun awakens and breaks free, murdering Wangel and leaving the institution.

When Nora, Andreas, and Marion meet with Norway’s Prime Minister Brichmann and Major Kristoffer Holm, he gives the order to kill the troll in spite of Nora’s concerns. Using two helicopters outfitted with potent UV lights, the three persuade Kris to include them in his operation. Before Kris’s men arrive, Jotun assaults a ski resort, killing a large number of victims. The UV lights work, but before leaving, Jotun kills Kris’s companion Amir by destroying one of the helicopters.

At Nora’s suggestion, the group goes back to the mountain cave in Dovre Municipality where the Troll King first appeared and locates the subterranean pit where he was previously trapped. Another troll, the now-adult child of the Troll King, is lured out of hiding by Nora. She calls the young troll “Beautiful” and uses the same song that woke Jotun to calm him. In an effort to avoid any confrontation, she recommends that they try to get Beautiful to speak with Jotun.

The two trolls converse after Nora and the group are able to reunite Jotun and Beautiful, but Jotun strikes Beautiful and sends him plummeting into a deep fjord, causing the group to escape. A sorry Nora admits that she had already found Beautiful and spoken to him as the team reassembles. Marion concludes that the resentful Jotun is travelling to Trondheim, the former capital of Olaf, via an old pilgrimage path.

The group finds Olaf’s secret tomb in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. They discover a missing fragment of an old document within, revealing that Olaf had a change of heart and chose to provide a refuge where the trolls could live in peace. However, Olaf was slain at the Church’s command so they could keep eliminating the monsters. Nora also discovers that the trolls may be defeated with holy water, and the group enlists several residents of Trondheim to assist in setting up a trap for Jotun.

After entering Trondheim and moving towards the cathedral, Jotun eventually overcomes the team’s defences despite taking considerable damage from their new holy-water weaponry. But Beautiful also shows up and confronts Jotun, starting a fight between the two trolls that ends with Jotun winning. While Andreas sacrifices himself by plunging into Jotun’s mouth with their final holy-water bomb, which explodes within Jotun and severely injures him, Nora and Marion divert Jotun with holy-water rockets. After that, Beautiful rips out Jotun’s heart and punches through his torso to kill him.

Later, in a new sanctuary created for Beautiful, Nora, Kris, and Marion now reside with Andreas’s wife Sigrid and their daughter Uhura. Møller is surreptitiously examining a newborn troll that was raised from one of Jotun’s DNA samples in a scene during the credits.