‘Sing 2’ will put a smile on your face and get songs stuck in your head

Posted on January 7, 2022

By MARK VIOLA

When Illumination’s animated musical “Sing” hit theaters during the holiday season of 2016, it arrived with a winning formula: hit songs, an exceptionally-talented voice cast, a menagerie of animal characters we could all root for as they struggled against the odds to succeed, and a feel-good story that tied it all together.

Five years later, “Sing 2” arrives in theaters once again during the holidays, and it once again delivers a winning formula. In fact, it’s essentially the exact same formula, but I left the theater with such a big smile on my face, I didn’t care one bit. As Coca-Cola has to learn every few decades, sometimes you don’t have to mess with the ingredients.

The first “Sing” ended with our characters finding success and taking the stage of a rebuilt theater run by the overly-confident koala, Buster Moon (voiced by Matthew McConaughey). The sequel finds them still performing, but Buster and the others have bigger dreams, namely to take their small-town talent on the road to the bustling Redshore City (essentially Atlantic City) and put on a show in one of its glitzy casinos.

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