The animated comedy “Sing” has one big thing going for it: movie stars playing singing animals. There’s a second appeal if you follow such television shows as “The Voice” and “American Idol.” The ...

Music echoed through the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live Saturday evening for the premiere of “Sing,” the latest in star-studded, song-filled animated fare from Universal and Illumination Entertainment ...

Illumination Entertainment, the team behind “Minions,” has branched out into the world of all talking, dancing, singing creatures great and small, mashing that up with the wildly popular phenomenon of ...

A cute, colorful and faintly generic kids’ movie, the animated comedy “Sing” centers on a singing competition – a sort of “American Idol” performed by animals. Buster Moon (voiced by Matthew ...

Hey gang, let’s put on a show! We can save the (school, rec center, etc.)” That’s been the rallying cry of many a movie musical, going back to the “Our Gang” comedies right up to the recent charmer ...

It may help that I have now seen Illumination Entertainment and Universal’s wonderful new animated holiday entry Sing twice (at the Toronto Film Festival, and at last Saturday’s premiere), where both ...

"Sing" is the banana split of movies. While it's hardly haute cuisine, it's awfully enjoyable, and, if it won't ever surprise you, you'll have a hard time denying that it's remarkably sweet. The ...

One can imagine the pitch meeting: It’s “American Idol,” but animated, and everyone’s an animal. We’ll star a cuddly koala. We’ll get McConaughey, Witherspoon, some other A-listers. We’ll throw in ...

“Sing” gathers talented performers like Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson and John C. Reilly — Seth MacFarland MacFarlane is in there, too, if that’s your thing — but the mix ...