Sing — Teaser Trailer

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added: Mon, Feb 15th '16

Illumination Entertainment, the animation studio that brought you "Minions," Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax," the "Despicable Me" films, and this summer's "The Secret Life of Pets," are back at it again with a new animated and animal-themed musical, simply called "Sing."

Written and directed by acclaimed British filmmaker and former music video helmer Garth Jennings (Son of Rambow, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), "Sing" centers on a singing competition that practically has every type of animal crawling out of the woodwork for a shot at fame.

The film, which will feature the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton and singer Tori Kelly, won't be released until the end of the year (on December 21st in the U.S. and on January 27th in the U.K.), but Universal has unveiled an early teaser trailer. Watch it above.

synopsis:
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.

 

directed by   Garth Jennings

starring   Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly

release date   December 21, 2016 (US), January 27, 2017 (UK)

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