SING
Directors: Garth Jennings and Christophe Lourdelet
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C Reilly, Tori Kelly, Taron Egerton, Nick Kroll, Nick Offerman, Garth Jennings, Jennifer Saunders
Rating: (G)
Three and a half stars (out of five)
Sing (Rialto and Reading) is set in a world of anthropomorphic animals. Our sort-of hero is Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a koala desperately trying to keep his theatre from going under.
In one last throw of the dice, he decides to hold a talent show to save the theatre. His creditors are unimpressed, but soon every animal in the city with dreams of stardom is queuing to audition. There is Rosita (Reese Witherspoon), an unappreciated mother of 20 piglets who would like something to be about her for once, Mike (Seth MacFarlane), an overconfident mouse, Johnny (Taron Egerton), a young gorilla whose father is tutoring him in the family business of bank robbery, Ash (Scarlett Johansson), a porcupine who sings backup in a band, and Meena (Tori Kelly), an elephant with a stunning voice who is too shy to sing in public.
Can this bunch of misfits come through for Moon?
- Christine Powley
