SING Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Judges AMERICAN IDOL For Animals
Illumination Entertainment has The Secret Life of Pets coming up this summer, but the studio already has another animated film on the way that returns to the world of animals once again. This time, though, they're not pets going wild when their owners are away: they're anthropomorphized creatures participating in an American Idol-style singing competition judged a koala named Buster Moon (voiced by Matthew McConaughey). Appropriately enough, the film is called Sing, and the new teaser features a showcase of different animals crooning to different pop hits. This looks like it could be fun.
Sing hits theaters on December 21st, and it has a great cast that includes McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, Tori Kelly, John C. Reilly, Nick Offerman, and Taron Egerton.
Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Academy Award winner Matthew 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.