‘SING’ Trailer Encourages Everyone To Raise Their Voice

These guys listen to auditions in SING. Courtesy of Universal Pictures.

Courtney Howard // Film Critic

Did you get my clever allusion to Hilary Duff‘s 2004 movie RAISE YOUR VOICE in the above slugline? I bet you did, smart readers. Anyways, SING is a movie I think we will all be singing its praises when the film debuts in December. You’ve probably seen the slew of the audition teases over the weekend. However now, they are put together in one handy, dandy place – in the trailer below.

Take a looksie!

Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Academy Award® winner 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 theater 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.

The music-driven film features 85 songs and a killer cast. We’ll show up for this one. Will you?

SING opens on December 21, 2016.

Courtney Howard

Courtney Howard is a LAFCA, CCA, OFCS and AWFJ member, as well as a Rotten Tomatometer-approved film critic. Her work has been published on Variety, She Knows and Awards Circuit.