![]() ![]() Sadly, those two fine performers don’t make Buster’s cut, and after they’re axed, Sing demands that we shift our attention to the actual finalists and the workaday problems they face when they’re not singing: Rosita ( Reese Witherspoon) is a beleaguered piggy homemaker and mom with an unappreciative husband (Nick Offerman) and too many little piggies to look after. Scores of animals show up for the big audition, and this is the picture’s finest scene, energetic without being exhausting: A water buffalo Barry Whites his way through Crazy Town’s “Butterfly ” a snail in a bowtie clings to the mic as he shimmies to Christopher Cross’ “Ride Like the Wind.” His elderly secretary, Miss Crawly (Garth Jennings), a shuffling lizard with an ill-fitting glass eye (she also happens to be the movie’s best major character), mistypes the amount on the advertising fliers, increasing it a hundredfold. He decides that a talent contest is the way to bring in bucks, so he announces one, offering a $1,000 prize, money he barely has. Matthew McConaughey provides the voice of show-biz impresario, theater-owner and koala Buster Moon, whose business is failing thanks to too many clunkers. How you feel about Garth Jennings and Christophe Lourdelet’s animated jukebox musical Sing depends less on your tolerance for watching animals warble, roar and croon pop songs for nearly two hours-and who doesn’t love that?-than on your patience for pinball-machine story mechanics and hyper-self-aware adorableness. ![]()
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