Clearly, Illumination Entertainment wasn’t messing around when they decided to name their upcoming animated effort “Sing.” Firstly, even though the movie isn’t due until the end of the year, the marketing campaign is well underway, and why not when you’ve got celebrity voices like Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, and Taron Egerton in reserve. And secondly, when you’ve got 85 songs in the movie, what else are you gonna call it?
Directed by Garth Jennings ( “Son of Rambow,” “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”), the plot revolves around a singing competition that’s launched in order to help save a historic theater from being demolished:
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.
“Sing” opens on December 21st. Watch the new trailer above.
