Director: Christophe Lourdelet & Garth Jennings
Release Date: 27th January 2017
Rating: U (UK), PG (USA)
From the pure standpoint that this movie is designed for children, Sing absolutely serves its purpose; however adult viewing sees a cliché, cringeworthy picture that leaves much to be desired.
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A clear cash-grab, with its release sandwiched between Moana and LEGO Batman (both awesome!), I deemed Sing very dull and obvious. The plots' reality-TV/talent show model didn't overly appeal to me, and I feel if it weren't for the characters being members of the animal kingdom, it wouldn't appeal to many others either; an unoriginal decision for an animated kids' movie.
Scraping together some sort of storyline, Sing trails Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a theatre-owning koala, whose attempts at staging a city-wide singing competition in order to try and save his business from bankruptcy go far from smoothly. Despite the title and premise, I was disappointed to learn how overlooked the dialogue was - the vast amounts of poorly-performed pop music covers saturated the almost-two-hour-long screening (seriously, they must have forked out a fortune on rights).
Each creature that enters Busters' show has an unoriginal backstory and there is minor storyline lead-up to their reasons for entering; the constant switch back and forth conveys fear of losing the viewers' interest. Johnny the Gorilla's (Taron Egerton) father is a robber and wants his son to be part of his gang, when all Johnny is obsessed with is singing; Mike (Seth MacFarlane) is a loud-mouthed mouse, living on the streets performing jazz and swing numbers; and Meena (Tori Kelly) is too shy to perform in front of anyone despite being an elephant. The list of yawn-inducing, eye-roll-worthy character profiles go on - not a single differentiator from many a children's movie before it.
The performances the actors give are barely of note, nothing provided was particularly engaging or enchanting at all - most gave it their standard presentation and nothing more; the voice-acting wasn't horrible, but it certainly wasn't great either.
On the other end, as far as animation quality goes, Sing is definitely up to scratch with the modern day; there was no point in the film where something looked unnatural in any way, so that can certainly be commended. Character movement and reactions are organic and fluid - the animation team are the ones to praise the most for this movie.
Scraping together some sort of storyline, Sing trails Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a theatre-owning koala, whose attempts at staging a city-wide singing competition in order to try and save his business from bankruptcy go far from smoothly. Despite the title and premise, I was disappointed to learn how overlooked the dialogue was - the vast amounts of poorly-performed pop music covers saturated the almost-two-hour-long screening (seriously, they must have forked out a fortune on rights).
Each creature that enters Busters' show has an unoriginal backstory and there is minor storyline lead-up to their reasons for entering; the constant switch back and forth conveys fear of losing the viewers' interest. Johnny the Gorilla's (Taron Egerton) father is a robber and wants his son to be part of his gang, when all Johnny is obsessed with is singing; Mike (Seth MacFarlane) is a loud-mouthed mouse, living on the streets performing jazz and swing numbers; and Meena (Tori Kelly) is too shy to perform in front of anyone despite being an elephant. The list of yawn-inducing, eye-roll-worthy character profiles go on - not a single differentiator from many a children's movie before it.
The performances the actors give are barely of note, nothing provided was particularly engaging or enchanting at all - most gave it their standard presentation and nothing more; the voice-acting wasn't horrible, but it certainly wasn't great either.
On the other end, as far as animation quality goes, Sing is definitely up to scratch with the modern day; there was no point in the film where something looked unnatural in any way, so that can certainly be commended. Character movement and reactions are organic and fluid - the animation team are the ones to praise the most for this movie.
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What Sing leaves us with is a movie which (most importantly) isn't very enjoyable. If I was forced to poke fun at the film in order to make my viewing time entertaining, there is certainly an issue with the film put before me. Watchable (barely) but hardly a classic.
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