can't believe the hate out there.

If you have problems with the Beatles & Sinatra, then you must be both taste & hearing impaired.

I don't care if somebody doesn't like the Beatles or Frank Sinatra. It doesn't mean they're hearing impaired, they may just got different tastes. It doesn't mean their tastes are bad.

Just a lovely little summer breeze (when it's winter out!) of a movie & yet stunned to find one turns to read here so much vitriolic rhetoric. Really? You kidding me?

Okay, it looks like you can't see other peoples' point of views. Some people just don't like Illumination. Maybe their films are too silly or childish for them. I disliked Sing because of the amount of stereotypical characters it had. It also thrown in some unnecessary characters who don't contribute much to the plot and do nothing but wild antics. Add in an arrogant mouse who shows off too much. If they had had characters who wanted to change the characters for the better or if they were legit villains in the first place, I would've enjoyed the antagonistic characters more.

That alone tells me EXACTLY what's wrong with this world.
People!!!
Must everything be SO overly digested, analyzed & ripped to shreds??! It's NOT trying to achieve anything other than what it does so perfectly.

This movie is not supposed to be thought-provoking. Who was thinking that this movie raised questions for you to analyze?

I think all you angry persons out there should run fast to make appointments for serious mental therapy already.

But who was ruining this movie? I don't get it. Just because somebody despises a movie doesn't mean they need therapy.

I was exceptionally entertained as was the audience there with me (have not heard applause at the end of a film since the first Rocky! And I see many movies at the show so that's been a while. Or for that matter, honest laughs also found here that came as nice surprise too).

My audience clapped after Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me, I think. Are you serious about this?

And for the record, I rooted for ALL the them (even the snotty little mouse) so you can care about animated characters. Zootopia was ALSO great, true, but why must everyone feel compelled to compare everything?
You see animals & feel ALL movies must measure up exactly as that other did (not that I found it lesser, I did not).

Zootopia and Sing are both animal movies. They may not be similar in plot, but they both came out the same year. I do care about some animated characters as long as their legit likeable enough. And by likeable, I mean having traits such as sweet, persuasive, maternal etc. while also balancing them out with negative traits like insecure, indecisive, or even serious to keep them from being wholesome characters.

Seriously, bears repeating!! THIS board here perhaps is simple measure to exemplify what is wrong with this world.
Relax a bit people, don't take a sweet little film & rip apart like it's "War & Peace" or "To kill a mockingbird"--it is not but also, because it absolutely GREATLY achieved what it set out to do.

It's not supposed to be as complex as To kill a Mockingbird. You don't have to repeat all of a sudden, I understand.

Then again, I LOVE music. Absolutely adore it. Transforms our brains you know (and frankly most of this music isn't MY generation. Doesn't matter! It SO works!)

I love music too but I still couldn't get into this film.

Maybe you shouldn't see it if you can't FEEL music. That's just plain sad for you!

I do feel music. It can be catchy, it makes me dance and some music makes me cry and some music makes me want to listen to it over and over again.

The thing is all in all, the film probably makes some people angry because this was a movie behind the creators of Despicable Me. It was a great movie to some of us and it was disappointing seeing them come out with something as Sing, Minions, Secret Life of Pets etc.. It's like Illumination is dying. And some of the characters in this film are annoying, and by annoying I mean the showy mouse, the aggressive Japanese animals, and the wild piglets. And nobody is there to reprimand them or anything. They just let them get away with it and that's not how the real world works.

Wake up, wake up, wake up, it's the first of the month.

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I haven't seen the movie, I will probably like it. However, I do find your post sanctimonious and belittling, you should probably work on the way you get your opinions across.

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If you liked that's great. I love musicals and animated films, but I found this one a little boring and too drawn out.

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Well, I'm not sure what you're perceiving as hate vs. fair criticism, but I'll give you my take while trying not to "over-analyze" it.

The film's biggest flaw the film has is, what I would consider to be, amoral characters in the main cast. Specifically the Koala, the mouse, and to a lesser degree the gorilla.

I normally don't care if characters are morally ambiguous, but this isn't that type of movie. "Sing" is clearly aimed at very young, and impressionable children. I think it's irresponsible for film makers to have these characters be the leads in this type of film. These are the characters you're supposed to relate to and root for, and should they do anything bad there should be a consequence. The characters need to grow through their actions, that's basic story telling.

This film has everything work out for the main characters regardless of their morals because they really wanted to sing. I don't think it's wise to show impressionable children that it's ok to lie, steal, cheat, and trepass (I'm not exaggerating, the characters literally do these things) without consequence.

The other issue is the pacing, this movie should've been 20 minutes shorter. There's no reason for this simple story to be almost 2 hours long. I felt every minute of the film.

Those are my big qualms with the movie.

I have other nit picky stuff that doesn't kill the film, but would've been nice if that had taken the efforts. This kind of stuff would be something like me feeling that the film was lazily animated/rendered when compared to other similar efforts from other studios. Pixar, Disney Animation Studios, Dreamworks etc... have far more detailed and vibrant worlds than what Illumination gave us with "Sing".

This isn't to say it offends me if people enjoyed the film, but I just wanted to present that having criticism is not the same as hating something.

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