{"id":13278,"date":"2016-12-20T08:11:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=13278"},"modified":"2016-12-20T08:11:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:11:53","slug":"sing-hits-too-many-sour-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=13278","title":{"rendered":"SING Hits too many Sour Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?attachment_id=13282\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/24_0004_C-merged.png\" alt=\"24_0004_c-merged\" width=\"44\" height=\"45\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13282\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is a weird flick.<\/p>\n<p>Judging the cover, <em>Sing <\/em>should be at least decent. Great cast [McConaughey, Witherspoon, Johansson\u2026], a Christmas opening date and it\u2019s a cartoon about talking animals from the studio that brought you <em>Minions <\/em>and <em>Despicable Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good. But now let\u2019s discuss what it\u2019s about. There\u2019s this koala bear named Buster Moon (an excitable McConaughey) and he owns a theater. He needs a hit so he puts on a singing competition. Right there is the first major misstep. Singing competitions reached peak popularity about 7 years ago. Old news. So right out the gate, the film seems dated.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?attachment_id=13280\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/a2-300x176.png\" alt=\"a2\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13280\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo Buster holds auditions and if the sight of computer generated animals singing songs tickles your funny bone, this while get you rollin\u2019 in the aisles. I found it cute for a little while. But it gets old very quick. One note; one joke.<\/p>\n<p>Then we meet the ragtag group that makes the show. These subplots are completely disconnected from the central plot. You have the Mother Pig, Rosita (Witherspoon) who has 35 kids and an unsupportive husband. She sneaks away to singing practice by building giant Rube Goldberg machines to cook and clean for her family. Too much of a stretch and simply not funny.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s Johnny, the crooning gorilla who doesn\u2019t want to rob banks like father. There\u2019s Mike the mouse who cheats at cards so a group of Russian bears are trying to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>All of this feels out of sync. Pointless. Filler.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the kids. I would imagine most kids under 8 will not make it through this movie without some protest. The novelty wears off and at 1 hour and 50 minutes, <em>Sing <\/em>\u00a0is too long. Wait for the Blu-ray if you have to check it out.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?attachment_id=13281\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/a3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"a3\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a weird flick. Judging the cover, Sing should be at least decent. Great cast [McConaughey, Witherspoon, Johansson\u2026], a Christmas opening date and it\u2019s a cartoon about talking animals from the studio that brought you Minions and Despicable Me. Sounds good. But now let\u2019s discuss what it\u2019s about. There\u2019s this koala bear named Buster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}