The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
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From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general...
Bear Bottom
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In the seventh novel in New York Times bestselling Stuart Gibbs’s FunJungle series, Teddy Fitzroy...
The Boy Who Drew Monsters
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror...
Troublemakers: How a Generation of Silicon Valley Upstarts Invented the Future
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THE GRIPPING TALE OF THE EARLY FRONTIER DAYS OF SILICON VALLEY FROM ACCLAIMED HISTORIAN LESLIE...
Henry VI Part Two
Stanley W. Wells, William Shakespeare and Michael Taylor
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The second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the...
The Storm Before the Calm
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Something happened in early 2011 that hasn't happened in decades, perhaps centuries - and we didn't...
The Twelve Jays of Christmas
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The cast of Donna Andrews’ New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series is back for an...
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of...
RəX Regent (349 KP) rated Sing (2016) in Movies
Feb 19, 2019
Illumination studios have managed to rack up a “Stinker” on this blog with The Lorax (3D) (2012), which was filled with songs which did not seem to go with the movie and maybe that was in my mind when I first saw the trailer for this, but I must admit, that I was wrong.
The story focuses around a Koala Bear (Matthew McConauhey) who owns his dream theatre in New York, but it is about to fail big. He ends up setting up singing contest in order to try and save it and a verity of animals from this this Zootopia styled world inhabited solely by animals, are entered into the competition.
The writing was good, strong and simple. The characters had enough depth, the song choices were good and the antics surrounding Matthew McConauhey’s efforts to keep his theatre open against the odds were genuinely funny.
It was also nice to see that several character tropes were not pandered too, such as the house wife pig (Reese Witherspoon) goes to elaborate lengths to take part, by automating her house to get her litter of piglets to school and her middle management husband to work, all of whom take her for granted so much that they fail to even notice that she is not there.
But instead of attacking her housewife status and saying that she was being hampered by this “boring” life and should be a singer and follow her dreams as many films would suggest, this simply asks for a balance. That impressed me… a lot.
Well worth a watch and defiantly one for the whole family.
The Essential Louise Hay Collection
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Internationally bestselling author Louise L. Hay is a metaphysical lecturer and teacher with more...