Review of Sing (2016) by 43In2014 — 22 Dec 2016

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What's it like?: It is like a combination of the backstage stories to reality TV singing competition shows such as American Idol and the written stories of TV series such as Glee, but with animals… much fewer animals than what was advertised in the trailer. It’s not original. Children and teenagers could be fooled into liking it due to its numerous pop songs, but there is insufficient story and there are not enough good laughs. As a results, adults would find it middling.

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Cons: >.

1. For much of the film, it seemed like there was nothing special going on and that the film was merely propped up by the numerous recognisable pop songs. The last 20 minutes was much better, but even then there were only covers of pop songs apart from one new original song. Even so, that original song was not memorable.

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2. One would think that the film would cover the long story behind each season of a reality TV singing competition show, but the potential number of ‘contestants’ were chopped down drastically at the first cut, to just seven acts! That seemed too few and too lacking in variety and talents. It was as if there was insufficient budget to get enough famous voice actors to voice for the animals! >.

Pros: Cons #2 ends up being a master stroke. There could have been too many acts if the format of American Idol was followed. More is not always better. More could end up stalling the film by having one pop song come after another. With fewer ‘contestants’, the end of the film felt sharper and sooner, which is good. >.

How would the different age groups rate it?

Children: Excellent.

Teens: Good.

Young adults: Average.

Medium age adults: Average.

Old adults: Average.

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My rating: 3/5 (no half scores). Save you money and watch it on TV.