Review: Not Even Talking Animals Can Save Jukebox Musical Sing

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. Matthew McConaughey provides the voice of show-biz impresario, theater-owner and koala Buster Moon, whose business is failing thanks to too many clunkers.