Sing Review

Sing Review:

Of all the musical based movies that came out in 2016 this is by far the worst. It is a boring, uneventful and borderline unintelligible piece of cinema that feels like an advertisement for the vocals of the people at the center of it.  The Story focuses on a failing theater koala who stages a singing competition, one of the worst forms of entertainment in existence, to try and save his business. While the primary story focuses on the competition a few I found myself feeling like I was watching the special features for American Idol on YouTube. Well they are not similar but I'd imagine that the mundane lives of the American Idol contestants would provide more entertainment than this.

The generic use of modern music, it felt like a karaoke night at a bar was recorded and edited into a film so that kids could have yet another sing along to enjoy, lacking any thematic or emotional depth for anyone old enough to drive a car. of the minor story-lines focus on boring family drama and uneventful relationships. When movies focus on multiple story-lines at once they sometimes get overbearing and it becomes increasingly annoying to try and follow, and while the supporting story-lines were not difficult to follow, I must add that they felt like the background stories of a sitcom being added to a feature length film.

Seth McFarlane was by far and away the most annoying animated character I dealt with all year when it came to drawn cinema, and that is a hard feat to match, considering that chicken from Moana. Hell, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has a better singing voice than half the cast of the movie. Also, I really wish they would stop trying to make singers, actors, as the idea of someone like Tori Kelly becoming an actual cinematic presence is cringe inducing, as her voice acting in this movie was terrible and uninspired. There is not much more I can say for this film, as it lacked anything that made it worth my while. It is sad that Matthew McConaughey has hit this point in his career after the alleged reconnaissance he was working towards recently.

Rating: 1.5/4 Stars