Review of Sing (2016) by Leopoldthebrave — 01 Apr 2017

I like this movie A LOT for some reason. I know it's only mediocre at best. But there's something that keeps making me come back to it. There's LOTS of positives, but a negative for each one.

For example, all the characters are very likable, but because there are so many, we barely get to spend a lot of time with them.

The movie is paced very well at the start, letting us get to know all the characters we'll be seeing throughout the movie. But it falls a bit at the end when it focuses a bit too much on Meena, the most generic of the lovable cast as she just plays the role of "The shy girl.".

The animation is fantastic. There's a wide variety in character design, and the environment looks great. You can really see yourself in the city or town where the movie takes place. But that's also a problem. While it's pretty, it has no creativity. You could replace all the animals with humans, and they could live in this world perfectly fine. While I do prefer this movie over Zootopia's overly forced message, predictability, and mediocre characters, they at least got the creativity in the animation correct.

Overall, I find Sing to be a very enjoyable movie, but I am aware of its flaws. I'd definitely recommend it over Secret Life of Pets, Zootopia, or any other talking animal movie that came out in 2016. (Except Kung fu Panda 3. Nothing beats that. Ever.) Without borrowing the plot of Toy Story like Secret Life of Pets, or a forced message that reminds you how sucky the world is for 100 minutes and makes you feel all melancholy like Zootopia, Sing is able to pull you into its happy world and distract you for a good bit. Not the kind of distraction that you'd sit your kids in front of to quiet them down for a while, but a good distraction that you'd enjoy watching with your kids to pass some time on a rainy day.