Bouncy and well-animated, but otherwise clearly aimed at a younger audience, Sing is a toe-tapping romp that will most likely bore adults with its stereotypical characters and shopworn plot. A showman koala must put on the variety show of his life to save his aging theater. The shy girl elephant with an angel’s voice, the sensitive boy gorilla breaking rank with his thuglife family, the self-important jerk mouse, the punky girl porcupine finding her own way, and the bumbling incompetent iguana secretary are all characters we’ve seen before and the ultimate reality show premise is tired, but again little ones will giggle through while adults yawn. In a country where arts and culture are being degraded by reality entertainment garbage, to make a movie that so closely parallels the arc of said reality trash as a kid’s film is unnerving at best. But, hey, why not? Let the band play on…
(Highland Theater)