'Sing' Lets Us Hear the Cartoon Animals Croon in New Extended Trailer
Illumination Entertainment is betting that the hours we all spend eyeing funny dog and cat videos (and a plot with echoes of Toy Story) will translate into a natural audience this weekend and beyond for The Secret Life of Pets — a shrewd gamble, if early reviews are any indication. This Christmas, they’ll be making a similar bet, counting on a soft spot for singing competitions — and rags-to-riches dreams — with another boisterous anthropomorphic adventure: Sing, which now has its second full-length trailer online (watch it above).
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This new preview, which runs nearly four minutes, gives away just about every major plot point we imagine is in the movie — save, that is, for which of the characters we meet ultimately wins the vocal contest staged by an industrious koala named Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) in an attempt to save his struggling theater. From a put-upon pig homemaker to a monkey with ties to a criminal gang, Illumination’s latest looks like a familiarly rambunctious feel-good effort, with a bevy of pop hits sung — absurdly, and amazingly — by animals, including Nikki Minaj’s “Anaconda,” Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” and Digital Underground’s “The Humpty Dance.”
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Set to Katy Perry’s soaring “Firework,” Sing’s second trailer doesn’t leave much to the imagination, and those interested in going into the film without having many of its prime jokes spoiled — including a centerpiece sequence involving some grocery store aisle dancing — will want to proceed with caution. Nonetheless, it certainly suggests that Illumination could have another hit on its hands when Sing — also featuring the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Tori Kelly, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, and Scarlett Johansson — brings its karaoke-style comedic craziness to theaters on Dec. 21.
Meet Kevin Hart’s rambunctous bunny from ‘The Secret Life of Pets’:
