It’s a lot of fun, it’s easier than live action,” he said. 21, he’s a cash-strapped koala, Buster Moon, who stages an amateur singing competition as a last-ditch effort to save his floundering theater. “Nobody was hiring me for about four years and then I got a call. So I’d watch animated films with them, and I was like, ‘You know what? I want to make an animated film, do some voice work.’ In an interview on This Morning, he said, “I got tired of answering the question, ‘So what film have you made that is your kids’ favourite?’ I looked at my last 10 years and I hadn’t really done one that they could see. Matthew McConaughey with wife Camila Alves McConaughey at an event. He made the decision to seek out an animation while watching a film with them but he had to wait four years for a part to be offered to him. McConaughey has three children, sons Levi (8) and Livingstone (4) and daughter Vida (7) with his wife Camila Alves. McConaughey said he was desperate to be involved with a family film because he realised he hadn’t starred in anything for years that was suitable for his children to watch. McConaughey voices koala Buster Moon (left) in the musical cartoon film, which also features Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton, Reese Witherspoon and Seth MacFarlane. The 47-year-old actor voices koala Buster Moon in the new musical cartoon film, which also features Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton, Reese Witherspoon and Seth MacFarlane. Actor Matthew McConaughey with daughter Vida at McConaughey’s star ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard.(Shutterstock) Plus, the snail should have won.Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey has revealed he wanted a role in the animated movie Sing because he wanted to appear in a film that his kids could watch him in. The color scheme is bright and cheerful, the fur and scales and eyes of the animals look super-realistic, and a few of the musical numbers are mildly rousing, The best may be Rosita/Witherspoon’s rendering of Taylor Swift’s no-flies-on-me anthem “Shake It Off.” (She’s joined by Nick Kroll, who voices the character of her song-and-dance partner, a porker in a tight, spangly jumpsuit named Gunter.) But Sing, like its yearning-for-validation characters, mostly just radiates desperation. ![]() This movie suffers from almost exactly the same problems as those two do: It jumps around from song to song, and from plot point to plot point, unable to trust in the attention spans of modern children, or even just modern human beings. Sing is the latest from Illumination Entertainment, which also brought us the double bummers The Secret Life of Pets and Minions. Director: Garth Jennings Release Date: DecemMPAA Rating: PG Starring: Matthew McConaughey (Buster Moon), Paul David Hewson (Clay Calloway), Pharell Williams (Alfonso), Taron Egerton (Johnny), Halsey (Porsha Crystal), Scarlett Johansson (Ash), Tori Kelly (Meena), Nick Offerman (Norman), and more Our Rating: A Since the release of Sing 2, the highly anticipated sequel to. Meena (Tori Kelly) is an elephant with self-confidence issues. Mike (Seth MacFarlane) is a slick Sinatra-esque mouse with a rat-sized gambling debt. Ash ( Scarlett Johansson) is a punky, spunky porcupine, in a plaid mini-kilt, who’s suffering through a breakup with a bad boyfriend. ![]() Sadly, those two fine performers don’t make Buster’s cut, and after they’re axed, Sing demands that we shift our attention to the actual finalists and the workaday problems they face when they’re not singing: Rosita ( Reese Witherspoon) is a beleaguered piggy homemaker and mom with an unappreciative husband (Nick Offerman) and too many little piggies to look after. ![]() Scores of animals show up for the big audition, and this is the picture’s finest scene, energetic without being exhausting: A water buffalo Barry Whites his way through Crazy Town’s “Butterfly ” a snail in a bowtie clings to the mic as he shimmies to Christopher Cross’ “Ride Like the Wind.” His elderly secretary, Miss Crawly (Garth Jennings), a shuffling lizard with an ill-fitting glass eye (she also happens to be the movie’s best major character), mistypes the amount on the advertising fliers, increasing it a hundredfold. He decides that a talent contest is the way to bring in bucks, so he announces one, offering a $1,000 prize, money he barely has. ![]() Matthew McConaughey provides the voice of show-biz impresario, theater-owner and koala Buster Moon, whose business is failing thanks to too many clunkers. How you feel about Garth Jennings and Christophe Lourdelet’s animated jukebox musical Sing depends less on your tolerance for watching animals warble, roar and croon pop songs for nearly two hours-and who doesn’t love that?-than on your patience for pinball-machine story mechanics and hyper-self-aware adorableness.
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