Sing (2016)

Movie
German title	Sing
Original title	Sing
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2016
length	108 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 ; JMK 6
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Director	Garth Jennings
script	Garth Jennings
production	Christopher Meledandri , ; Janet Healy
music	Joby Talbot
cut	Gregory Perler
synchronization

Sing is an American computer animation film directed by Garth Jennings , which premiered on September 11, 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival .

action

In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals , the Koala Buster Moon has to fight hard for the survival of his theater. To prevent closure, he tries to make money by holding a singing contest . The winner is said to receive $ 1,000, but Buster's assistant Matilda Crawly, due to a mishap, writes a prize money of $ 100,000 on the leaflets that are distributed across the city by a gust of wind.

On the day of the audition, there are many more interested people in front of the Moon Theater than expected, including the stressed house sow Rosita, the arrogant and game-addicted white mouse Mike, the punk rock singing porcupine girl Ash and a gorilla named Johnny who would rather sing than to follow in the footsteps of his criminal father. They all got their hands on the leaflet and are dreaming of winning the competition. Rosita is supposed to perform in a duet with her singing partner Gunter, who can dance better than sing. The shy elephant girl named Meena, who had actually failed the audition, unexpectedly gets a job on the show and operates the stage technology of the theater.

When Buster learns of the typo made by Miss Crawly, and a bank employee also urges the outstanding debt to be paid immediately, the koala has to think of something new. He takes his best friend, the sheep Eddie, by surprise , and presents his idea of the show to his very rich grandmother Nana Noodleman, who was once a great singer herself and who also appeared on the predecessor of the Moon Theater. Buster hopes that the diva will then help him out of his financial hardship. Even if she's not really enthusiastic about Buster's idea, she agrees to attend a performance before the actual big show.

Everyone is preparing for this opportunity to show off their talent, and Buster comes up with a spectacular feature on stage. He is building a huge aquarium in which fluorescent squids are supposed to swim, which lights up the stage from behind. When Miss Noodleman comes to the performance, everything seems to be going well at first, but then the glass front of the aquarium cracks and the theater is completely destroyed by the resulting tidal wave, after fortunately all animals have been flushed out of the building.

The media is talking about a fiasco that is Buster's fault. The bank takes the theater away from him, and the koala who stayed with Eddie falls into a serious crisis. But even his promising singers, who believe that their singing career has now ended, feel a void in their lives after the sudden end of the casting show. Buster doesn't let the encouraging visit get him out of his depression, but when he hears Meena sing for the first time, his enthusiasm for the show returns. He wants to put on an open-air show in the ruins of his theater, where everyone should show what they can do. A makeshift stage is built and the event, which is televised, is a resounding success. Miss Noodleman buys the property back from the bank and has the theater rebuilt, which will soon be reopening.

production

synchronization

Matthew McConaughey lends his voice to the koala Buster Moon in the film, John C. Reilly to the Suffolk sheep Eddie, Reese Witherspoon the domestic pig lady Rosita, Nick Offerman her slightly idiot husband and Nick Kroll her dancing and singing partner Gunter, who is a strong one in the original film has a German accent. Seth MacFarlane lends his voice to the mouse Mike, who tries to sing like Frank Sinatra and feels like that and therefore seems a bit arrogant. Scarlett Johansson speaks the porcupine lady Ashley, who had previously sung in an alternative rock band, Beck Bennett her lover, Tori Kelly speaks the shy elephant girl Meena, who is plagued by stage fright, Leslie Jones his mother, and Taron Egerton plays the role to hear from Johnny, the English gorilla whose father (voiced by Peter Serafinowicz ) does not support his project to become a singer, but has planned a criminal career for him. Director and screenwriter Garth Jennings can be heard as Matilda Crawly, an old green iguana who works as Buster's assistant and gives piano lessons to the gorilla Johnny, and Jennifer Saunders lends her voice to Miss Nana Noodleman.

Matthew McConaughey speaks Buster Moon
Reese Witherspoon speaks to Rosita
Scarlett Johansson speaks to Ashley
Tori Kelly speaks the elephant Meena
Taron Egerton speaks the gorilla Johnny
Nick Kroll speaks the domestic pig Gunter

The synchronization was commissioned by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Berlin . For dialogue book and - directing was Nana Spier responsible.

role	English speakers	German speakers	animal
Buster moon	Matthew McConaughey	Daniel Hartwich	Koala bear
Rosita	Reese Witherspoon	Alexandra Maria Lara	Domestic pig
Mike	Seth MacFarlane	Klaas Heufer-Umlauf	mouse
Ashley	Scarlett Johansson	Stefanie Kloß	Common porcupine
Eddie Noodleman	John C. Reilly	Olli Schulz	Suffolk sheep
Meena	Tori Kelly	Maximiliane Häcke	Indian elephant
Johnny	Taron Egerton	Patrick Baehr	Mountain gorilla
Gunter	Nick Kroll	Christian Gaul	Domestic pig
Norman	Nick Offerman	Olaf Reichmann	Domestic pig
Karen Crawly (English) Matilda Crawly (German)	Garth Jennings	Katharina Thalbach	Green iguana
Big daddy	Peter Serafinowicz	Tilo Schmitz	Mountain gorilla
Nana Noodleman	Jennifer Saunders (old) Jennifer Hudson (young)	Iris Berben (old)	Suffolk sheep
Lance	Beck Bennett	Nicolas "inscope21" Lazaridis	Common porcupine
Meena's mother	Leslie Jones		Indian elephant
Meena's grandfather	Jay Pharoah		Indian elephant
Meena's grandmother	Laraine Newman		Indian elephant
Judith	Rhea Perlman	Heike Schroetter	lama
The three frogs		Prince Damien , Luca Hänni and Lukas Pratschker	frogs
Boss Bear		Waléra Kanishcheff	bear

Film music

The film music was composed by Joby Talbot . The soundtrack for the film was released on December 9, 2016. The song Faith , sung by Stevie Wonder and Ariana Grande , was released by Republic Records in early November 2016, and Set It All Free, sung by Scarlett Johansson, at the end of November .

In December 2016, the soundtrack was included in the list of candidates (longlist) at the Academy Awards 2017 in the category Best Film Music , from which the members of the Academy will determine the official nominations. The songs Faith and Set It All Free contained on the soundtrack were included in the longlist for Best Film Song .

publication

The film premiered on September 11, 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival . In October 2016, photos were published in which the characters appearing in the film can be seen together with their respective speakers. The film celebrated its European premiere on November 27, 2016 in Cologne. The film was released in German cinemas on December 8, 2016 and in US cinemas on December 21, 2016. The film was released on DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K UHD on April 6, 2017.

reception

Age rating

In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK without any age restriction. The release certificate says: “The film has a cheerful mood, the characters are friendly and positive. Occasionally there are fast-paced tension and action scenes, which are always balanced out by calm and cheerful passages. Short appearances by a criminal gorilla gang and some mafia bears do not have a lasting effect due to the light and cheerful overall mood. "

Reviews

So far, the film has won over 72 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics . The consensus states: " Sing offers colorful, animated and happy entertainment with solid singing and a warm - albeit familiar - storyline that lives up to its title."

About the musical range that the film has in store, vienna.at explains , among the around 60 songs, from Elton John , from the Beatles and Queen to Taylor Swift , Carly Rae Jepsen and Sam Smith, there is something for parents and children alike. Günter H. Jekubzik from the Augsburger Allgemeine says about the integration into the film and the performance of the pieces of music : “All these small private dramas and the great battle for the old music theater offer plenty of action alternating with the original singing of US stars like Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Scarlett Johansson. Frenzied animation flights increase the pace, but luckily the conventional finale takes time for whole songs and round resolutions of all the stories of the colorful animal characters. "

Gross profit

In France, Spain, Portugal, Australia and Japan, the film landed at number 1 on the cinema charts after its launch. The film has worldwide revenues of $ 634.2 million, making the film 137th among the world's most successful films of all time. So far, the film has recorded 2,475,963 visitors in German cinemas, making it tenth among the films launched in 2016 (as of August 13, 2017).

Awards

Annie Awards 2016

Nomination in the category Music in an Animated Feature Production

Golden Globe Awards 2017

Nomination for best animated film
Nomination for Best Movie ( Faith - Ryan Tedder , Stevie Wonder and Francis Farewell Starlite )

Hollywood Music In Media Awards 2016

Award for the best overall musical concept - film ( Jojo Villanueva )
Nomination for Best Song - Animated Film ( Faith , sung by Stevie Wonder and Ariana Grande )

Kids' Choice Awards 2017