This review is a bit later than I intended, though a delayed review is pretty fitting for a movie with a delayed UK release. And on the subject of delayed UK releases one of the trailers was an old one for the upcoming Minions movie with the amusing details of “next year” followed by “2021”. I guess they ran out of footage they felt comfortable using in the trailer, which is amusing considering the trailers for the Sing movies.
This is better than the first movie. As I said in the opening paragraph it still has the problem of showing the beginning and end of all the character arcs in the trailer but that’s more of a marketing problem than a fault of the movie, the arcs themselves are decent and there’s still at least some details that don’t make it into the trailers. The interaction between characters is still limited as most stick to the characters relevant to their own arcs but they do have more of a dynamic now as they’ve been working together more between movies and aren’t competing against each other anymore.
One detail about this film I did find interesting is its answer to a question I didn’t think to ask about the first movie but is a good question. In a jukebox musical set in a world of anthropomorphic animals that is knowingly a jukebox musical who sang the original songs in that world? Their answer is to cast the original singer as a character with Bono’s character Clay Calloway being the one who wrote U2 songs in this universe. It’s certainly a more interesting answer than making an animal pun of a singer’s name.
If you liked the first Sing you’ll probably like this one but if you’re not a fan of Illumination it’s not exactly going to be the movie to change that for you either. That said as Illumination movies go I do think it’s probably one of the better ones I’ve seen, still not as good as the first two Despicable Me movies though. I do plan on making a ranking image for Illumination’s films later this year when the Mario movie comes out along with one for just the Despicable Me movies when the new Minions movie comes out.
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