Movie Review: SING
Movie Synopsis:
Sing is a 2016 American computer-animated musical
comedy-drama film produced by Illumination Entertainment. It was directed and
written by Garth Jennings, co-directed by Christophe Lourdele and starring the
voices of Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett
Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, and Tori Kelly. The film is about a
group of anthropomorphic animals that enter a singing competition, hosted by a
koala hoping to save his theater.
Movie Review:
When the trailer for SING
was released back in 2016, I had been amused. But I didn’t think much of it.
Neither did I go out of my way to catch the movie in theatres. I wish now,
however, that I had. For some reason I was listening to Elton John’s Still
Standing Glee cover. I chanced upon a comment that said the SING cover by Taron
Egerton was better. So I immediately had to check that out…and long story
short, I ended up watching the whole movie this afternoon. (Yes - perks of working
from home and knowing how to manage your schedule!)
SING chronicles the story
of koala bear, Buster Moon, who has spent his whole life churning out
less-than-hits theatre productions. Under pressure from the bank to get rid of
his precious theatre, Moon comes up with a plan to hold a singing competition for
all the humanoid animals in their city. His best friend, Eddie Noodleman, the
sheep is less than thrilled about this venture, because he is sure this wouldn’t
work either.
A typo in the flier
offering $1,000 as prize money is changed to $10,000 and attracts the attention
of a large group of animals. Among them is the reluctant to follow in his
criminal father’s footsteps gorilla, Johnny, a frustrated housewife pig,
Rosita, a flamboyant pig, Gunter, shy elephant, Meena, a rebellious teenage
porcupine, Ash and a mouse that seems to always be in trouble, Mike.
With this group of
misfits, Buster Moon attempts to put on a show that unlike any the city has
ever seen before. The only problem is he needs to come up with the prize money
and save his precious Moon theatre from being seized by the bank as well.
I loved this animated
movie where deep down all the characters just want to break loose and sing. The
songs produced for the movie where also really well done. Personally, I am a
fan of Johnny and would love to see the sequel of this movie which is scheduled
for release in 2020. In the 1 hour and 47 minute run time, they also show you
amazing character development. The characters are all left at much better
places at the ending, since the time we had first met them. Watch this movie –
if not for the cute plot but for the amazing number of singles they have
managed to churn out for one movie!
