‘Sing’ Trailer: These Animals Really Have Some Pipes
Illumination Entertainment has a couple of new animated movies hitting theaters this year. The first is the animal adventureThe Secret Life of Pets,arriving this summer. But just before Christmas, Illumination will get musical withSing. In what is basicallyZootopiameetsAmerican Idol, one koala (Matthew McConaughey) decides to put on a huge singing competition to save his theater, and some average animals with incredible pipes look at it as their opportunity for a better life. Of course, it’s all fueled by an endless array of popular songs from yesterday and today.
Watch the newSingtrailer after the jump.
This trailer starts to focus in on the main characters that we’ll be rooting for in Sing, includingReese Witherspoonas an overworked mother pig,Taron Egertonas a gorilla who doesn’t want to be part of a criminal gang,Seth McFarlaneas a hip little mouse,Scarlett Johanssonas a rockin' porcupine, recording aritstTori Kellyas an enthusiastic but nervous elephant andNick Krollas a funny, foreign pig.
Illumination Entertainment hasn’t exactly been consistent with their animated offerings.Despicable Mebeing pretty great, the sequel not quite as good andMinionswas a true disappointment. PlusThe Loraxdidn’t offer anything particularly memorable either. But Illumination’s offerings this year actually look pretty decent.
The soundtrack will really be a key player in the movie, and it reportedly packs a whopping 85 songs. So writer and directorGarth Jennings(Son of Rambow, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) has plenty of musical sequences in store for this animated family comedy. If you want to see more, you can watch the previousSingtrailerright here.
Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals,Singstars Buster Moon (Academy Award® winner Matthew McConaughey), a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist—okay, maybe a bit of a scoundrel—who loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Now facing the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition.
Five lead contestants emerge: A mouse (Seth MacFarlane) who croons as smoothly as he cons, a timid teenage elephant (Tori Kelly) with an enormous case of stage fright, an overtaxed mother (Academy Award® winner Reese Witherspoon) run ragged tending a litter of 25 piglets, a young gangster gorilla (Taron Egerton) looking to break free of his family’s felonies, and a punk-rock porcupine (Scarlett Johansson) struggling to shed her arrogant boyfriend and go solo. Each animal arrives under Buster’s marquee believing that this is their shot to change the course of their life.
