Sing 2 4K 2021 Ultra HD 2160p

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It's hard to be a producer when you're a koala and have paws. It's even harder when your faithful assistant is older than a typewriter. And it's fun when your cast is a nonstop dancing chubby boy, a prickly punk girl, a shy schoolgirl, a big-ass gangster, and a mother of many children whose kids are piglets in the literal sense of the word. The recipe for success is simple: rush to the entertainment capital of the world, recruit a legendary rock musician, and blow up the stage with a new show.

Review 4K Movie

The first part of Zveropoy came out in 2016 on a wave of hype for the very enjoyable Zveropolis. There is only one problem: Zveropolis was made by Disney, which has always moved the plot and worked out the key characters, while the development of Zveropoy was done by Illumination, which has branded itself with banal and empty works. The cartoon was not a revelation, gathering plenty of plot flaws that killed the interest of the story. However, by absorbing a lot of popular songs and famous actors and presenting them in the format of a large-scale show, it was able to grab the niche of films-attractions, not striking the content, but entertaining action. After the theatrical release, the animated film has gathered albeit different, but on average pleasant feedback from the target audience, exclusively for whom Illumination studio works, which predetermined the imminent appearance of the second part. At the end of 2021, it was released in theaters...

Plot. The second part actually starts with the finale of the first, which automatically deprives the plot of exposition. Yes, you have to watch the first part to watch the second one, because it at least somehow reveals the characters and describes the world in which they exist. The plot hinges on the fact that the theater cast we already know wants to audition for the largest Las Vegas beastly playground. Expectations are immediately dashed, as they don't even pass the previews with 'low-level' arguments. The heroes don't lose heart and decide to go to the meeting with the main producer, where they only get what they want by lying: Buster Moon promises to invite to his show an idol of all generations, rock lion Clay Calloway, who 15 years ago became a recluse because of the death of his wife. It's just a matter of getting to know him and convincing him to return to the stage...

Don't forget that the main element of the cartoon is the spectacular show, which eats up a large chunk of the timing. This leads to a disastrously small amount of time for the plot to unfold and advance. And, given the target audience of 6+, stretching out the show's time is very dangerous, children can get tired. Hence the lack of exposition, cut scenes explaining the action, and the primitiveness of the narrative. But it's the characters that suffer the most...

Characters. The first part, though it omitted some moments, still lucidly explained what the characters needed the flowing action for. In this part, however, no one needs the show! 'What have we got to lose!' and onward into the world of adventure. Whereas before someone was saving the theater from ruin, someone was getting rid of routine, someone was fighting stereotypes, and someone was fighting stage fright, now everyone is involved simply because. The cartoon takes well-known characters and, without endowing them with new motivation, throws them into the thick of it in the hope that it will get away with it. It didn't...

There are only four new faces, but they are painfully cartoonish. An evil rich man, the rich man's smug daughter, a veiled do-gooder helper who tries to protect the heroes from the villain, and a saddened hermit. No one gets a decent reveal. Why is the villain angry? Why does his daughter act in defiance? Why does the helper decide to help? Why did the death of his wife so sadden the rocker that he became a recluse? These details you'll have to figure out for yourself, the film just doesn't have time to show it all. It will make a splicing, before it was bad and after it was good. At the cost of motivations, but in the name of spectacle and a happy ending!

Soundtrack and voiceover. The musical content of the first installment was highly striking with a variety of recognizable tracks. There was Sia, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Kanye West, Wham!, Queen, Taylor Swift, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Elton John, Michael Jackson and not only. And there were played quite famous hits, which were on the ears of the audience. The second part decided not to spend a lot of money on copyrights. Here you can hear occasionally Coldplay, The Weeknd, Prince and SOAD, but the headliner of the cartoon was the band U2, whose lead singer takes part in the dubbing. Yes, that brutal hermit rocker riding a bike is Bono. In the Russian dubbing, if I recognized correctly, Vladimir Zaitsev, the voice of The Witcher and Tony Stark, growled for the lion, but at the end of the cartoon the lion sang in the original voice, and all that brutality faded away. Nothing against Bono and his work, but I did have a breakdown.

The show. It is in the show part that the magic of Illumination happens. Despite the huge plot holes, you get a smile on your face during the show. All the events hint that a happy ending is inevitable, but when you see it, you still smile. I don't know how it works, but maybe you don't have to. After all, it does work!