Oct 24, 2023

Sing 2

Saw Sing 2.  Oh my god it was ridiculous.  It's not very good but in a campy, minions-style way: the whole thing is so ephemeral, it's harmless.  It has all the dumb entertainment of a reality TV show but with the rapid rhythm of a scripted cartoon.  It's a film that lives for the unrealistic bliss of catharsis achieved in the middle of a musical act: the audience singing and clapping along, the klieg lights glaring, and the main characters maybe learning a little something about themselves.  So silly!  I was sort of interested by the idea of an act within a piece of media: you can see the stage scaffolding (and the klieg lights) and somehow it makes it more realistic, this visual clutter of artificial behind-the-scenes.  Very strange!  It's all a cartoon anyway, why not make it just a fantasy, like they do in (I dunno) the climax of Madagascar 3?  I have opinions about funny-animal cartoons.

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