By Emilio Frenk
Directors: Garth Jennings and Christophe Lourdelet
Cast (Voice): Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Jennifer Saunders, Nick Kroll, Nick Offerman, Jennifer Hudson, Peter Serafinowicz and Rhea Perlman.
Rating: Excellent.
Illumination Entertainment, the studio who brought “Despicable Me”, followed by a second part, “The Minions” and “The Secret Life of Pets” brings “Sing” and again I was very surprised with the result of this film.
The movie tells the story of Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) an optimistic koala who runs “The Moon Theater”.
With foreclosure coming ahead and still with high hopes and dreams, Buster has an idea who shares it with his best friend Eddie (John C. Reilly) a suffolk sheep. The idea is to do the biggest singing competition n the theater and the winner will have a price of $100,000.
Thanks to the price millions of animals audition but the ones who are elegible are Johnny (Taron Egerton) a gorilla, Rosita (Reese Witherspoon) a female pig with huge aspirations of becoming a singer and dancer, Mike (Seth MacFarlane) a street mouse with a voice like Frank Sinatra, Gunther (Nick Kroll) a male dancing pig, Ash (Scarlett Johansson) a crested porcupine and punk rocker and Meena (Tori Kelly) an shy indian elephant with a remarkable singing voice.
Not only this will represent a chance for Buster to redeem himself but to continue he´s father´s legacy who previously own the theater.
From the minute “Sing” started I was delighted and I was always with a big smile on my face. The storyis very original and I loved the idea that this time this kind of ideas the characters we´re not humans and there were animals.
The script written by Garth Jennings was beautifully crafted and the way how he introduced the key characters was marvelous and works in every details. He´s direction was very good and precise and as well of his directing partner Christophe Lourdelet, which marks his directorial debut with “Sing”.
The use of voiceover from the members of the cast was really good and funny and one of the things that we´re very important in this film is that as a member of the audience you feel an immediate connection to all the characters and it´s one of the most important rules in this genre specially.
This is the last animated film of 2016 and like I mentioned before in this space this has been a fantastic year for animated films.
“Sing” just recently scored a Golden Globe Nomination for Best Animated Feature and it will go head to head with Disney`s “Zootopia” which is also a fantastic animated feature film and the favorite to win it all in next year`s award season.
The use of music and all the songs from the 70´s, 80´s, 90´s and most recent pop was nicely done and everything work.
Not only “Sing” is a touching and inspiring movie, but it´s a funny film that will make you laugh from beginning to end.
I am impressed with the quality of work that Illumination Entertainment has brought in the last three years. They have been doing a fantastic job and “Sing” proves it.
The cast by Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane and company were very good and hilarious and I really enjoyed this movie which has a strong message which is never giving up in your dreams and dream big always.
With that being said “Sing” is one of the years best animated films and I give it a huge recommendation.