9/12/2023 0 Comments Matthew mcconaughey buster moonThanks to his best friend, a llama named Eddie, financing hasn’t been a problem until now. Unfortunately, all of Buster’s funds were spent on buying the theatre, forcing him to seek investments from others for the actual productions. Non-stop, production after production comes and goes, with each show introduced by the diminutive koala dropping down from the rafters nestled within a gold crescent moon. Using his father’s life savings, Buster does indeed buy himself a grand old theatre harkening to the Broadway and vaudeville palaces of days gone by. Enthralled and entranced it became his dream to become a world famous impresario and own his own theatre and put on world class productions. At the young age of six, Buster fell in love with musical theatre thanks to seeing a performance by none other than the world renowned diva, Nana Noodleman. And a koala voiced by Matthew McConaughey? Perfection. SING is pure WOW and will have you floating on air and grinning from ear to ear. ![]() What a film! One song after another after another, SING is a greatest hits soundtrack of your life covering everything and everyone. Boasting perhaps the best soundtrack of the year (something I anticipate saying in 2017 with “Guardians of the Galaxy”), there aren’t enough praises to sing about SING! To borrow from “Jerry Maguire”, SING had me at Paul McCartney. The folks who brought us “Despicable Me” and “The Secret Life of Pets” now ventures into the world of the animated musical with an engaging story, entertaining animal characters and some of the most recognizable musical hits of the past few decades, all put together by writer/director Garth Jennings. Plus, the snail should have won.As if the world isn’t already drinking in enough Technicolored musical cheer with “La La Land”, hot on its heels is an animated musical treat to make your Christmas or Hanukkah brighter than bright – SING! Move over Pixar, Walt Disney Animation and DreamWorks, there’s a new kid on the block who’s climbing the charts – Illumination Entertainment. The color scheme is bright and cheerful, the fur and scales and eyes of the animals look super-realistic, and a few of the musical numbers are mildly rousing, The best may be Rosita/Witherspoon’s rendering of Taylor Swift’s no-flies-on-me anthem “Shake It Off.” (She’s joined by Nick Kroll, who voices the character of her song-and-dance partner, a porker in a tight, spangly jumpsuit named Gunter.) But Sing, like its yearning-for-validation characters, mostly just radiates desperation. This movie suffers from almost exactly the same problems as those two do: It jumps around from song to song, and from plot point to plot point, unable to trust in the attention spans of modern children, or even just modern human beings. Sing is the latest from Illumination Entertainment, which also brought us the double bummers The Secret Life of Pets and Minions. Meena (Tori Kelly) is an elephant with self-confidence issues. Mike (Seth MacFarlane) is a slick Sinatra-esque mouse with a rat-sized gambling debt. Ash ( Scarlett Johansson) is a punky, spunky porcupine, in a plaid mini-kilt, who’s suffering through a breakup with a bad boyfriend. Sadly, those two fine performers don’t make Buster’s cut, and after they’re axed, Sing demands that we shift our attention to the actual finalists and the workaday problems they face when they’re not singing: Rosita ( Reese Witherspoon) is a beleaguered piggy homemaker and mom with an unappreciative husband (Nick Offerman) and too many little piggies to look after. Scores of animals show up for the big audition, and this is the picture’s finest scene, energetic without being exhausting: A water buffalo Barry Whites his way through Crazy Town’s “Butterfly ” a snail in a bowtie clings to the mic as he shimmies to Christopher Cross’ “Ride Like the Wind.” ![]() His elderly secretary, Miss Crawly (Garth Jennings), a shuffling lizard with an ill-fitting glass eye (she also happens to be the movie’s best major character), mistypes the amount on the advertising fliers, increasing it a hundredfold. He decides that a talent contest is the way to bring in bucks, so he announces one, offering a $1,000 prize, money he barely has. Matthew McConaughey provides the voice of show-biz impresario, theater-owner and koala Buster Moon, whose business is failing thanks to too many clunkers. How you feel about Garth Jennings and Christophe Lourdelet’s animated jukebox musical Sing depends less on your tolerance for watching animals warble, roar and croon pop songs for nearly two hours-and who doesn’t love that?-than on your patience for pinball-machine story mechanics and hyper-self-aware adorableness.
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