Sing

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Sing, a Sting to New Animation Sing is about a city of humanoid animals, and a hustling theater producer. Koala Buster Moon is attempting to save his theater with a singing competition. The competition becomes grander than he prepared for and Buster is willing to anything to preserve his theater. After having an audition, Buster chooses five contestants. Those contestants are Mike, a mouse who sings smoothly as he cons, Ella, a timid teenage elephant who has an enormous case of stage fright, Rosita, an overworked, mother pig who takes care of a litter of 25, Johnny, a gangster gorilla who would rather sing than be part of his families felonies, and Ash, a teenage, punk-rock loving porcupine that wants a solo career. All of these animals take …show more content…

Americans are known for having a rich theatrical history and the entire movie is about Buster trying to preserve that history and not letting his theater get destroyed. Also, most of the movie is about a singing competition. Sing is like an American- Idol style singing competition, but with talking animals. Singing competitions are a big part of American culture. When Buster decides to hold a singing competition, his friend Eddie sarcastically says,“Singing Competition? Who wants to see one of those? Buster, that’s a terrible idea.”(Sing). That is a very obvious sarcastic remark because in reality a lot of people, particularly Americans enjoy watch singing competition shows. Ordinarily, music is part of American music. The movie is quite impressive for including over 85 hit songs. Including songs like Stay with me by Sam Smith, Bad Romance by Lady Gaga and not entirely appropriate for children, cute bunnies singing Anaconda by Nicki Minaj. The way the movie relates to music and American is a redeeming quality, but not enough to oversee the fact that the movie was …show more content…

The movie follows the typical story that dreams always come true. Yes, that is true, sometimes, but movies like these send the same messages about how dreams and ambitions can be fulfilled. Why teach children the same concept again and again? Also the movie did not differentiate from any other animation about talking animals. It was very similar to a recent animation, Zootopia, released by Disney in 2016. Consequently, the story was very cliche I do not think it is not worth spending money for because there are very similar to other movies. The only positive about the movies was that you didn't drag on it was straight forward. Most movies are very long, especially children movies and I liked that it was straight to the point with the idea that dreams can come true as long as you work hard and never give up. Determination and being hopeful is very important to children, but there is so much more children need to be taught. Today, children movies just seen repeated and they are not as entertaining as they used to

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