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article2016 Reviews, articleAnimated Films,Can Illumination’s hour and a half long movie about a koala, his theatre and a singing competition beat Disney’s magnificent Zootopia?
Genre: Animation/Comedy/Music
Director: Garth Jennings, Christophe Lourdelet
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Taron Egerton, Scarlett Johansson, Gareth Jennings, Seth MacFarlane, Tori Kelly, Nick Kroll, Beck Bennett, John C. Reilly & Leslie Jones.
Run Time: 108 min.
US Release: 21 December 2016
UK Release: 27 January 2017
German Release: 08 December 2016
I need to confess, this movie was not even on my radar until recently, when I saw a trailer for it during the screening of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. As a big animation fan, I bought a ticket as soon as it came out and hoped for the best. Given the fact that we obtained a similar movie earlier this year, in which anthropomorphic animals inhabit the world, I had no choice but to compare Sing to Disney’s Zootopia with the outcome that Illumination Entertainment’s latest animation can’t compete with the brilliant buddy-cop drama, Disney bestowed on us. Sing suffers from a couple of very severe issues; first and foremost the fact that Illumination thought that it suffices to combine animals and popular songs to produce a good movie.
In a world inhabited by humanlike animals, koala Buster Moon (McConaughey) needs to find a way to preserve the theatre he is presiding over. His only plan to save his beloved theatre from the bank is to create a live singing competition, with the winner obtaining 1,000 dollars. At least that was his original plan because his secretary Miss Crawley (Jennings) accidently sets free fliers with the wrong sum written on it. Now Buster needs to deal with a horde of performers that expect to see 100,000 dollars if they win.
Much like The Secret Life of Pets, one of this animations bigger issue is that it lacks depth or better said; it suffers from an insufficiency of storytelling in general. The best way to describe Sing is by comparing it to an overlong episode of X-Factor (or any other casting-show) but instead of humans, the competitors and the jury are composed of a variety of animals. While I need to confess that it was fun to watch these animals try and replicate performances of popular songs, it was not able to fill the hole that the missing plot left and it started to get tiresome after 40 minutes of its runtime. Needless to say, this movie was bland and predictable.
It also had its good aspects, such as the important message it tried to convey: to never let go of your dreams and surpass your fears to reach them. Sadly it fails to reach the audience due to the thinly developed story that deafens the message. Compared to Zootopia, this is an O.K. and enjoyable one-time-watch film that will surely be liked by children, while adults may find it rather hard to sit through, even if it is mildly enjoyable.
Again, just like Illuminations first movie this summer, Sing suffers heavily from an overabundance of side characters and sub-plots and this time it is more noticeable as the movie feels more convoluted and disjointed. The audience is forced to care for all these personas in such little amount of time but since it is handled very sloppy, none of these animals get the emotional attachment they would have deserved especially main protagonist Buster or mountain gorilla Johnny.
Matthew McConaughey did a fine job and his character of Buster Moon is a funny looking koala. The problem though is that Buster is depicted in such an unlikeable way for about three-quarters of this animation, that once he changes you simply don’t care about him or his problems anymore. If the plot would have focused more on Buster’s emotional attachment and his motives for trying every crazy idea to save his theatre, rather than chopping up the story to make time for fifty other side-characters, his character might have come over more likeable.
Miss Crawley was my favourite character in this animation. The elderly chameleon, voiced by Gareth Jennings, is Buster’s clumsy secretary and the comedic anchor of this computer-animated flick. Although her jokes are based on slapstick humour, it was the combination of that style and her age that made it work very well. My least favourite character was Gunter, voiced by Nick Kroll. It hated the German accent this pig was given and the stereotypical portrayal of Germans, as over-the-top and exhibitionists, which is getting old and annoying. I wish they had tried out something different with that character.
The animation and stylistic effects used for this film don’t differ too much from those used in The Secret Life of Pets. Both films utilize more cartoonish representations of animals, compared to the typical big-eyed designs of Disney. Watching this movie gives a feeling as if a children's book had come to life, something I really appreciate as it gives Illumination its own style when it comes to their animated movies. The colour palette, though, differs from the studio's previous flick. While it does make use of bright and vibrant colours, the film also employs darker and rougher tones to depict the dangerous aspects of the plot; such as the criminal underworld that Mike the mouse visits.
The musical choice was the biggest complaint I had with this movie. Illumination took the cheap way out and used unspectacular pop songs that everyone knows, to reach a bigger mass audience. Personally, I thought that the movie might have reached a little more depth if it would have made use of an original playlist.
Verdict: Illumination tried to create something different with Sing and that is my best compliment I can give this animation. Sadly, the movie suffers from three big issues that drag it down into the pits of “forgettability”. For one, this animation is missing a vital component of movie making and that is the main story that holds the plot together. Sing jumps from one subplot to the next, without exploring a character thoroughly so that the viewer can bond emotionally with one of them. That brings me to the second issue it suffers from; too many subplots mean too many characters, meaning that the main character doesn’t get the amount of screen time he deserves. The third and last problem Sing has is its musical choice. Other than that it was a fun movie with well-voiced characters by big name actors, but it’s not enough to grant it a second view. I will give Sing a 6 out of 10.
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