The Animated Film SING Shows Some of Its Talents in Five Funny Audition Videos

The computer-animated musical comedy Sing already got my attention when I found out that Matthew McConaughey was going to star as a koala that runs a theater. Now Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have released five new clips that show different animal contestants' talents and voices.

Here’s an official synopsis.

Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (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 theatre 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 is directed by Garth Jennings and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy. It will hit theatres on December 21, 2016, containing more than 85 songs.