Fun Trailer for the Animated Musical SING with Matthew McConaughey
Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have released a fun new trailer for the animated musical film Sing. The movie will feature 85 hit songs that many of you will probably be familiar with. The movie has an incredible voice cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, and Tori Kelly.
The film’s story basically revolves around an American Idol-like singing competition… with animals. According to the film's tag line, this is a feature about “finding the shining star that lives inside all of us.” Here’s the synopsis:
Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (McConaughey), a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist—okay, maybe a bit of a scoundrel—who loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Now facing the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition.
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 was written and directed by Garth Jennings (Son of Rambow, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), and it will be released on December 21st, 2016.