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Sing

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Sing	comment	Sing is a 2016 computer-animated Jukebox Musical from Universal and Illumination Entertainment. The film was directed by Garth Jennings and Christophe Lourdelet, the former having previously directed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), with Jennings also writing the screenplay.Set in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, the movie centers around Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), an optimistic koala who plans on using a singing competition to save his struggling theater from being closed. The contest quickly attracts a big crowd of talented wannabes, such as the frazzled pig housewife Rosita (Reese Witherspoon), street musician mouse Mike (Seth MacFarlane), reluctant juvenile delinquent gorilla Johnny (Taron Egerton), teen punk girl porcupine Ash (Scarlett Johansson), and the ultra-shy elephant Meena (Tori Kelly). Buster is initially aided by his slacker sheep friend Eddie (John C. Reilly), but complicating things further is a typo in the original flyer: one that listed the award as $100,000 instead of Buster's meager $1,000...The film was released on December 21, 2016. A teaser can be found here.A sequel, Sing 2, was released on December 22, 2021. All the main voices return with the exception of MacFarlane and Reilly. And newcomers Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Pharrell Williams, Letitia Wright, Chelsea Peretti, Eric AndrÃ©, and Bono joined the cast.In April 2023, it was officially announced that a third film in the series is now in development.Not to be confused with Sing, a live-action short film also released in 2016.
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Sing / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Sing / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Rosita's husband, Norman, initially gives off a neglectful husband vibe, but the truth is that he's just a workaholic and he really does care for his family. During the climax, as Rosita is swarmed by her piglets after her performance, Norman bolts onstage to give her The Big Damn Kiss. Johnny and his father prove this is the case. While their relationship for the majority of the film is strained and argumentative at best, and downright resentful on Marcus' part after he and his gang are arrested, there's no denying Johnny's desire to please his father nor Marcus' desire to make amends after he sees Johnny singing on stage. It comes to a head when Marcus breaks out of prison and is pursued by helicopters as he goes to tell his son that he does love him, and he's really very proud of him, before giving himself up again. Mike's lady friend seems at first like she may only be interested in him because she thinks he's rich, but when he's in danger from the bear gangsters, she's genuinely distraught and races to his rescue.
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Sing / int_12b045	type	Winds of Destiny, Change!
Sing / int_12b045	comment	Winds of Destiny, Change!: Buster invokes this metaphorically when he waxes eloquent to Ms. Crawly regarding the show and what it will do for his and everyone else's lives... then it becomes literal as the wind blows in the open window, scattering the contest flyers all over the city and, through various contrivances, brings them to each of the main characters previously introduced.
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Sing / int_12e2a068	type	Alone Among the Couples
Sing / int_12e2a068	comment	Alone Among the Couples: Miss Crawly in the short Love at First Sight. After her various attempts at online dating fail miserably, she ends up wandering the streets alone, feeling dejected among various couples.
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Sing / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
Sing / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: Buster leaves his bicycle with the valet at the fancy restaurant, claiming "It may look old, but it's a classic". Before he even enters the restaurant the bike falls apart, leaving the valet holding the handlebars while the rest of the bike lies on the ground.
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Sing / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Sing / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Buster has one after the Moon Theatre collapses, where he lives with Eddie and never steps out of the house or ever wants to get out of bed. After losing his home, his place of business, and his father's legacy in one fell swoop, because of his own mistakes, Buster's self-confidence takes an enormous hit for a while until Meena and Eddie manage to pull him out of his funk..
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Sing / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Sing / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Several of the key dramatic points of the movie, like the major falling out between Johnny and his father, are spoiled by the third trailer, along with parts of the final show (particularly Rosita's act).
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Sing / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Sing / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Johnny confessing to his father Marcus that he was in the singing competition and Marcus initially rejecting him because of it can also be read as a Coming-Out Story. Especially since the song he performs at the climax of his arc is an Elton John cover.
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Sing / int_159e16f1	type	Misplaced a Decimal Point
Sing / int_159e16f1	comment	Misplaced a Decimal Point: The prize money was advertised as one hundred times the intended amount.
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Sing / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Sing / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: While Lance and Becky are singing "Love Interruption" together, the lyric they sing is "I want love to change my friends into enemies". Meanwhile, Ash is standing in the doorway, catching them in the act of essentially having an affair behind her back, quickly going from Lance's girlfriend to his girl-enemy.
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Sing / int_16e41bfb	type	Diegetic Musical
Sing / int_16e41bfb	comment	Diegetic Musical: The film has has nearly all of the songs take place on stage for a concert. The others are for auditions, and two characters sing to themselves in private.
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Sing / int_171e14be	type	London Gangster
Sing / int_171e14be	comment	London Gangster: Johnny's dad leads a gang of gorilla bank robbers with prominent East End accents.
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Sing / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Sing / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: In two separate instances, Ash in a fit of strong emotions inadvertently flings some of her quills around. Real porcupine quills do detach easily, but they can't actually shoot or fling them (they're basically specialized strands of hair).
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Sing / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Sing / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: When Meena walks onstage to perform her song at the climax of the movie, and Buster decides to give her one last bit of encouragement.
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Sing / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Sing / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers make it look like Mike is some kind of criminal or bad guy, when he's actually just a greedy street musician who gets into trouble after he joins the auditions. The trailers made Rosita's husband, Norman, seem like a neglectful husband, when in reality, he's just a workaholic and he really does care for his family.
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Sing / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Sing / int_1b122c5d	comment	Nana's glare and accompanying sung Scare Chord.
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Sing / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Sing / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Mike, who has a penchant for Frank Sinatra songs and other 1960's songs, is a mouse. Frank Sinatra was also a member of the Rat Pack, an informal term for a group of musicians (including Dean Martin) he was a part of.
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Sing / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Sing / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: When creating the publicity flyers for the competition, Ms. Crawly's glass eye falls out and hits the 0 keyboard twice, advertising a $100,000 grand prize instead of the intended $1,000. Ms. Crawly doesn't check to see if there's no typos before printing them out and retrieving her glass eye. Buster also doesn't get a chance to proofread the flyers before the fan blows them out the window and throughout the city. This means that they don't find out about the mistake until after the auditions are over. Then Buster decides to keep the contestants in the dark about it instead of confessing the typo because he thinks that he can somehow get a hundred grand together in time. This leads to several more problems down the line. When Meena returns home after an attempt to re-audition failed, she discovers a crowd of neighbors and her family waiting for her. When her grandfather asks if she made it into the show, she admits that she technically has a role. But before she can explain that Buster made her the stagehand, they all cheer for her thinking that she got an act. Then when she tries to explain the truth, her mother makes her promise not to speak at home in order to save her voice and only nod or shake her head. Unlike the prize money typo, however, it doesn't cause much problems; Meena does end up in the show after Pete ends up in the hospital, and presumably her family never found out about her being the stagehand.
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Sing / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Sing / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: A trio of "buns" (rabbits) sing a song about "buns". In addition to being thieves, Marcus and Johnny apparently run an auto repair shop as their day jobs, which would make them literal grease monkeys. While searching for Johnny's dad, one of the cops flying on a helicopter is a pig.
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Sing / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Sing / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: Several characters who are never actually named in the film are granted names in other sources. According to promotional materials for the film, Johnny's father, Big Daddy, is named Marcus. According to the script and the movie's end credits, the unnamed member of Big Daddy's gang is called Stan. According to the script, the lady mouse that Mike tries to woo is called Nancy. Additionally, the location this movie takes place in is a city called Calatonia.
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Sing / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Sing / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: One that doesn't take long to fire, but as he is speeding from the heist toward the rehearsal, Johnny causes two cars to collide with each other in what seems like a throwaway gag. When he tries to return to the spot where he is supposed to meet his father's gang, the cars are still there, their drivers are arguing with each other, and traffic is backed up so far that Johnny is unable to get back in time. Numerous times early on in the film it's made clear either how dilapidated the theatre is, how Buster is cutting corners to try and keep things going, that he is pinning all his hopes on producing a successful show so as to support the restoration work, or that the place has not been made as up-to-code and stellar as he keeps claiming it is. Adding all this up, it isn't hard to guess something is going to go very wrong with the theatre but none of that can really compare to what an utter disaster its' fate turns out to be. Early on the viewers get to see a flashback of the opening gala night for the Moon Theatre, as well as a black-and-white photo of the event on Buster's office wall, showing him and his dad surrounded by the various stage crew and performers for the show. Later on, there are also several shots where the singing contestants stand around Buster in a similar fashion, in some cases with their species lining up with those in the original photo. The film ends with the contestants and Buster's friends and benefactors recreating the picture in full, becoming another black-and-white photograph.
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Sing / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Sing / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: After discovering Mrs. Crawlyâ€™s typo when the prize money accidentally became $100,000, Buster states to Eddie that he will find a way to accumulate that money, as he in reality only has $1,000. However, he never ends up trying to gain $100,000 in time for the Liar Revealed towards the contestâ€™s competitors.
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Sing / int_23d6eccb	type	Non-Mammal Mammaries
Sing / int_23d6eccb	comment	Non-Mammal Mammaries: Averted. The animal bodies are shaped like animals, male or female.
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Sing / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Sing / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: While most of the contestants are friendly with each other from the beginning, through the trials of trying to put on a show they become as close as family.
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Sing / int_251bce7c	type	Cardboard Prison
Sing / int_251bce7c	comment	Cardboard Prison: It takes Marcus less than a minute to escape prison. He doesn't even need to plan, he just uses his Super-Strength on a window's bars.
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Sing / int_25f95cfe	type	Girl Group
Sing / int_25f95cfe	comment	A J-Pop Girl Group of red pandas who can only speak Japanese, which is very clearly inspired by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu as the two songs they perform ("Kira Kira Killer" and "Ninja Re Bang Bang") are covers of them.
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Sing / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Sing / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: While a hippo is being interviewed outside of the auditions at Moon Theater, a bear can be seen picking his nose absentmindedly in the crowd in the background, until he notices heâ€™s being filmed and smiles brightly for the camera. While Ash and Buster trade a bit of sass about her boyfriend Lance, Johnny smiles in amusement behind them. Within the same scene, the frog band starts to fight over the list of songs that Buster gave them, until one of them decides to run off with the sheet of paper, with the others in hot pursuit. As Rosita comforts Ash, she leaves her purse behind when going on stage for rehearsal and tells Ash to help herself to any gum or candy in there. When Rosita returns and is arguing with Gunter, Ash is chewing gum and even blowing bubbles. When Eddie closes the curtain after Gunter and Rosita's performance, Ms. Crawly is drumming on Johnny's back with drumsticks.
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Sing / int_27a40541	type	Furry Confusion
Sing / int_27a40541	comment	Furry Confusion: All of the squids are mutes. Except during the end credits, when they sing a pretty soulful number to close out the film.
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Sing / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Sing / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: The last time Mike is seen in the movie, he and his girlfriend seem to have successfully escaped from the Russian bears in Mike's car...when one of them is revealed to be clinging to the backseat. It's unclear whether Mike was able to escape or if he was legitimately Killed Offscreen, as he never appears again, not even in the group photo at the end of the movie nor is he mentioned in the sequel.
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Sing / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Sing / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The red pandas are actually speaking Japanese (albeit heavily accented). Buster later tries to talk to them in their language, but gets slapped for his efforts.
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Sing / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Sing / int_2978c012	comment	Stage Mom: One of the auditionees is a little female kangaroo who comes in her mother's pouch. After Buster chooses his acts, the mother kangaroo reassures her daughter that she will still be a star. For a kid, the girl is pretty good...
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Sing / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Sing / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Most of the contestants don't change their outfits for the whole movie until the final show. Johnny is never seen in clothes other than his leather jacket, jeans and green sweater. Buster is a more depressing case as it's implied that the red bowtie, blue blazer and slacks and white button-up are the only clothes he owns.
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Sing / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Sing / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: The Roc supermarket Rosita shops at is a play on the Giant Eagle supermarket chain.
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Sing / int_2b8a34a0	type	No Cartoon Fish
Sing / int_2b8a34a0	comment	No Cartoon Fish: Zigzagged. While there are shrimps who try out and squids who swim around in the tanks, finned animals are only briefly glimpsed during the scene where Buster is riding his bicycle (a whale with a hat swims under a bridge, and fish are seen swimming up a waterway on a stairway), and none of them have a major or supporting role.
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Sing / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Sing / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Rosita manages to build an elaborate contraption from things lying around her house to take care of her piglets while she's away at rehearsals. It works so well that none of her children or her husband appear to notice that she's not actually there. Mike is an insufferable jerk and incredibly confident in his skills, but he eventually realizes that he really does want to be recognized for his music, with or without the prize, and is capable of acknowledging that other people can be great singers too. Buster is a bit shady, what with how he sinks to stealing water and electricity from the neighboring buildings, writes paychecks that bounce, and keeps putting off talking to the bank representative through various excuses. He also takes Eddie out to dinner at a fancy restaurant he can't afford (and brings sandwiches instead) and deceives people about the prize money. But he's still trying to find the prize money, and his sole motivation seems to be producing great entertainment, saving his theatre, and helping people express their passion and talents because of his love of music and the theatre, as well as to make his dad proud.
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Sing / int_2ec219ee	type	Butterfly of Doom
Sing / int_2ec219ee	comment	Butterfly of Doom: Because her glass eye bounces onto the "0" key twice at a crucial moment, Ms. Crawly accidentally changes the advertised amount of prize money to $100,000 instead of the original $1,000, which kickstarts many of the film's conflicts. Ironically, Miss Crawly's mistake actually turns out to be very beneficial in the long run. All of the members of the Moon Theater troupe grow a lot as people, and their lives improve vastly, in ways that they probably never would have if Miss Crawly hadn't made that typing error. It's never outright stated, but it's heavily implied that what Buster really needed was someone to help manage his finances. For as good a showman as Buster is, and as good a job he does managing and inspiring his performers, he just can't keep the books balanced. Had he delegated those responsibilities to someone competent, he likely never would have found himself in the situation at the movie's start.
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Sing / int_2ef89a18	type	Fat Comic Relief
Sing / int_2ef89a18	comment	Gunter, the Fat Comic Relief pig, speaks with a distinct German accent.
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Sing / int_2f72ded5	type	Husky Russkie
Sing / int_2f72ded5	comment	Husky Russkie: The bears that Mike runs afoul of all have Russian accents.
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Sing / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
Sing / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Johnny tries to hide his love of music from his father Marcus, who pushes Johnny to participate as a lookout and a getaway driver in the heists Marcus' gang of gorillas commits. After Johnny misses a heist (due to having to practice for the show) and inadvertently causes Marcus and the entire gang to be arrested, Marcus dismisses Johnny as a failure and a disappointment. He has a change of heart though, when he sees Johnny performing on the broadcast of the talent show, and realizes that Johnny has a natural talent and a passion for music. Regretting the hurtful things he said to him earlier, Marcus breaks out of prison and shows up at the theater to reconcile with his son, apologizing and telling Johnny how proud he is of him.
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Sing / int_32956961	type	Explosive Breeder
Sing / int_32956961	comment	Explosive Breeder: Rosita has twenty-five kids, all around the same age (they appear to be six or seven years old). Truth in Television, since in real life pigs can produce litters that are quite large.
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Sing / int_355fde0e	type	National Animal Stereotypes
Sing / int_355fde0e	comment	National Animal Stereotypes: Red pandas (animals native to China) are portrayed as a Japanese girl group. Brown bears appear to be Russian gangsters. There's also Meena and her family who are African-American elephants. Downplayed with Gunter, being a fat German pig, sometimes Germans and Europeans are represented by pigs, and him being fat and jolly is a German stereotype. Overall averted. Buster is played by an American, not an Australian, and the gorillas have English accents, not African.
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Sing / int_35f57671	type	Minion with an F in Evil
Sing / int_35f57671	comment	Minion with an F in Evil: Johnny speeds off to a rehearsal instead of remaining at his post with the getaway car, which is what ultimately lands his father and his gang in prison.
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Sing / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Sing / int_36c64123	comment	Johnny is introduced in an alleyway, singing "The Way I Feel Inside" only to be interrupted by two cops walking by and his dad's gang crashing through the window of a bank they just robbed. He's chastised by his father for getting distracted on look-out duty and not wearing his mask. The scene serves to show Johnny's Gentle Giant status, and how it doesn't exactly coincide well in a Killer Gorilla gang.
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Sing / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Sing / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: The movie is about a singing competition. Meena is voiced by Tori Kelly, and the young Nana Noodleman, as seen in Buster's flashback at the start, is voiced by Jennifer Hudson, both of whom also has a certain history with singing competitions. This isnâ€™t the first time Taron Egerton has played a character who forcibly broke his way out of a flooded room It's mentioned in the prologue that Buster initially wanted to become the first koala in space. Maybe in this life, he didn't become an astronaut. But in a previous life, he went above and beyond. Johnny's shirt also has a prominent lighting bolt on it, possibly as an allusion to his voice actor whose first name 'Taron' is a misspelling of 'Taran'—which is Welsh for 'thunder'. Possibly a coincidence, but Lanceâ€™s new girlfriend is named Becky. Lance himself is voiced by Beck Bennet. Gunter's voice is the same voice Nick Kroll used for The European on the Kroll Show. At one point during Gunter's performance of "Shake It Off" with Rosita, Gunter dances similarly to how Douche, another character Nick Kroll played, dances in the scene where he's introduced, and both characters did this dance while in a box. Mike exclusively sings classic pop songs, reflecting Seth MacFarlane's love of Rat Pack-era music.
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Sing / int_3dfdc686	type	Time-Passes Montage
Sing / int_3dfdc686	comment	Time-Passes Montage: There's a very short one showing the line of auditions outside the theater taking all day to shrink. This is also played with when the ending shows the theater being rebuilt from scratch; however, none of Rosita's piglets grow in size so it must have still been a short time overall.
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Sing / int_3f3964dd	type	"Gaining Confidence" Song
Sing / int_3f3964dd	comment	"Gaining Confidence" Song: Meena is a painfully shy elephant with a gorgeous singing voice. When it's time for her on-stage debut, she freezes up before slowly starting to sing "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing". Her performance is initially slow and almost ballad-like, but as she sees the crowd enjoying it, her pace picks up and she gains more confidence to sing louder and more passionately until she literally brings the house down by collapsing the wall behind her with her jumping and powerful voice. But instead of suffering from stage fright from this mishap, she simply shrugs it off and continues singing to thunderous applause.
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Sing / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Sing / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: An example that's more sweet than bitter. Moon Theater is completely destroyed, but thanks to Nana Noodleman buying the property from the bank, it's slowly rebuilt from the ground up until it's fully restored to its former glory. In addition, the contestants have all gotten a chance to change their respective lifestyles and come into their own as singers / musicians, under Buster's tutelage. However, there's no telling how long Johnny will be separated from his father and the rest of his clan while they're in prison, and it's never revealed whether or not Mike and Nancy managed to escape the bear gangsters who wanted them dead (even if they did, they had to skip town just to evade the bears' wrath).
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Sing / int_4345806d	type	Black Comedy Burst
Sing / int_4345806d	comment	Black Comedy Burst: During Johnny's getaway driving training, a sudden and unexpected bit of dark humor is sprang upon the audience. While Johnny vents about his father's constant criticism, he gets distracted at the wheel and comes up on Marcus before he knows it. He slams on the brakes and spends a few moments thinking he might have ran over his father, before Marcus startles him with a Jump Scare, revealing he's perfectly fine and happy that Johnny managed to beat his last record. Johnny, on the other hand, is not amused in the slightest bit.
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Sing / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Sing / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: A J-Pop Girl Group of red pandas who can only speak Japanese, which is very clearly inspired by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu as the two songs they perform ("Kira Kira Killer" and "Ninja Re Bang Bang") are covers of them. Gunter, the Fat Comic Relief pig, speaks with a distinct German accent.
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Sing / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
Sing / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: While it makes sense for the news station to cover the debut of Buster's talent show (which is particularly newsworthy after the destruction of the theater), there's no justification for them to broadcast it in its entirety. Even assuming there were absolutely no other newsworthy events anywhere that evening, the lack of commercial interruptions makes no sense whatsoever. Especially given there should have been breaking news over Marcus' escape from jail mid-show, as he rushed to make amends with Johnny. There was a manhunt on but the show was still airing.
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Sing / int_45eed9a5	type	Not This One, That One
Sing / int_45eed9a5	comment	Not This One, That One: When Buster is making a big speech to Eddie about why he has a bucket in his office, the sheep thinks he is talking about the one they use to catch water from the leaking roof. Buster points out the actual bucket for that, then points to the one he meant and goes on with his story.
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Sing / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Sing / int_469e3e2f	comment	According to everyone, including Buster himself, the shows put on at his theatre are never any good. Yet, when he's working on the singing competition he proves to have an eye for talent, works with the contestants the exact way a good manager should, and his In-Universe Executive Meddling proves to benefit their acts. Then, his comeback show manages to impress Nana Noodleman, and this was when he was working in a mostly destroyed theatre with amateur (but undeniably talented) singers.
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Sing / int_4733c4f1	type	The Song Remains the Same
Sing / int_4733c4f1	comment	The Song Remains the Same: Zig-zagged in the Japanese dub: Rosita sings exclusively in English, since her voice actress is fluent in that language, but everyone else sings Japanese covers of the Western songs, rather than leaving their original songs in English with their original singers, probably for the sake of consistency. Oddly enough, the Japanese J-Pop-singing red pandas remain in Japanese without any change in language, despite most of the humor of that scene coming from Buster being unable to speak Japanese at allnote In fact, for the scene where he attempts to read from an English-to-Japanese dictionary to communicate with the red pandas, he inexplicably tries to speak to them in English. Another odd scene in this dubbed version is when Ash sings along with Buster "Set It All Free" while rehearsing in English, despite the song itself being sung in Japanese when Ash plays it live, likely because Buster's Japanese voice actor didn't know "Set It All Free"'s Japanese lyrics and he only knew the English ones. Played mostly straight in the Mexican Spanish dub, when all the songs remain in English (with the sole exception of Ash's "Set It All Free", due to it being an original song that she wrote) despite most of the cast consisting of professional singers as well, and totally straight in the Spaniard dub, where all the songs remain.
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Sing / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Sing / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: The gorilla gang Johnny's father runs wear bunny masks during their heists. Tiny, look-like-they-were-cut-from-a-paper-plate masks. Johnny is chastised for not wearing his, and pulls one on when he goes to steal the money from Moon's office.
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Sing / int_493a162d	type	Bioluminescence Is Cool
Sing / int_493a162d	comment	Bioluminescence Is Cool: The squid characters glow in the dark, and when there's a large enough group of them they can create the kind of pulsating light show that one would expect to see in a night club. Buster tries to take advantage of this to create a stunning rehearsal show for Nana Noodleman, and fails when his hastily crafted squid tank falls apart. However, he doesn't give up on the idea entirely, because when Moon Theater is rebuilt at the end of the film, a brand new (professionally built) squid tank is added to the exterior of the building.
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Sing / int_4ee61c1f	type	Liar Revealed
Sing / int_4ee61c1f	comment	Liar Revealed: When the bears show up and demand the chest of prize money, Buster agrees to give them the chest, but the bears then demand that Buster open it. Buster tries to stave off revealing the prize money isn't $100,000 by saying he doesn't have the key, but the bears just smash the chest open with a baseball bat, revealing that the prize money isn't real. Mike then shouts that Buster lied (although to be fair, the typo on the flyer was Ms. Crawly's doing, Buster is only guilty of keeping this a secret, rather than outright telling a falsehood).
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Sing / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
Sing / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: Buster fails to notice Ash's disapproval when he asks her to sing "Call Me Maybe". It is also implied that he's just pretending to be this, so he can get what he wants without getting into an argument (or he only understands it in certain situations). In the scene where he asks for Nana's support, he seems to clearly get Eddie's sarcasm.
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Sing / int_50f50a5e	type	Donut Mess with a Cop
Sing / int_50f50a5e	comment	Donut Mess with a Cop: When we first see some police rhinos, they clearly have a box of donuts.
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Sing / int_51974a43	type	Storefront Television Display
Sing / int_51974a43	comment	Storefront Television Display: Towards the end where all of the main characters are performing, a crowd of kids are seen watching Rosita and Gunter's, and later Mike's performances on multiple TV screens in a storefront. One of them is Mike, who, goaded by the audience's reaction, goes back to show them what real singing is.
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Sing / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Sing / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: At the start of the film, Buster, Buster's father, Eddie, Miss Crawly, and a bunch of other animals pose together for a group photo, to commemorate the grand opening of Moon Theater now that its in Buster's possession. At the end of the movie, Buster, Eddie, Miss Crawly, Ash, Meena, Johnny, Rosita, Gunter, and the talent show contestants' respective family members pose together for a similar group photo, to celebrate the grand re-opening of the New Moon Theater and the start of a new era for the venue.
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Sing / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Sing / int_55af5099	comment	Rube Goldberg Device: After Rosita lands herself a spot in Buster's singing competition, she's faced with a dilemma. She needs to be able to spend all day away from home, practicing with the other animals, while also maintaining her usual routine. So she decides to create an elaborate contraption built out of household objects, to take care of her home in her stead.
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Sing / int_58db779e	type	Letting the Air out of the Band
Sing / int_58db779e	comment	Letting the Air out of the Band: During the dress rehearsal, the bears' sudden arrival corresponds with the background music (Kanye West's "Flashing Lights") slowing to a crawl.
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Sing / int_592fa231	type	Acquired Error at the Printer
Sing / int_592fa231	comment	Acquired Error at the Printer: The prize money was supposed to be $1000 (or at least, that's what Buster claimed it was), but Ms. Crawly's Glass Eye slips out of her socket and hits a couple zeroes, and well... This unwitting typing error goes on to cause a lot of trouble for both her and Mr. Moon for the remainder of the movie.
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Sing / int_5a1018da	type	Funny Octopus
Sing / int_5a1018da	comment	Funny Octopus: Theater manager Buster Moon hires two hundred deep-sea squid to add their bio-luminescence to his stage and backdrop to create a living light show. Of course, Buster soon learns why it's a bad idea to enclose several thousand gallons of water with ordinary window glass.
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Sing / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Sing / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: Moon Theater is introduced early on with Nana Noodleman's beautiful musical number, "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight", and a Dark Reprise of it later underscores the destruction of the theater during the film's Darkest Hour. Nana's song is heard one last time, reaching brand new majestic heights of euphoria, when Nana herself arranges for Moon Theater to be rebuilt, and Buster's place of business is fully restored to its former glory.
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Sing / int_5e7e75dc	type	Furry Female Mane
Sing / int_5e7e75dc	comment	Furry Female Mane: Averted with Rosita, and played straight with Meena who has tiny pigtails on top of her head. Inverted with Richard, the male buffalo with brown fur and a black pompadour.
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Sing / int_612b48bd	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Sing / int_612b48bd	comment	Nearly Normal Animal: The squid butlers who light up the stage.
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Sing / int_61814b8f	type	Jukebox Musical
Sing / int_61814b8f	comment	Jukebox Musical: The film boasts no less than eighty songs from The '40s to The New '10s, ranging from "Venus" to "Kiss from a Rose" to "Anaconda" though most are only one or two line snatches.
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Sing / int_61d054a0	type	Animal Stereotypes
Sing / int_61d054a0	comment	Animal Stereotypes: Gunter, the pig who Buster pairs up with Rosita, hogs the spotlight and is the largest ham ever. Johnny the gorilla's father is a brutish gangster, alongside his fellow thieves. Johnny himself averts this, being a Gentle Giant. Of course, Mike the rodent is going to be singing Rat Pack songs. And he manages in several places to terrify Meena, despite her being exponentially bigger. Rosita goes to great lengths to keep her house clean and orderly, which is in line with how pigs act in real life. On the other hand, her workaholic husband Norman and her twenty-five kids can be real slobs like stereotypical pigs. Justified in the latter case since they are pretty young kids. One of the cops on a helicopter that's looking for Johnny's dad is a pig, a slang term for a cop.
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Sing / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Sing / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Played with; while surnames are given for some characters (Buster Moon, Miss Crawly, the Noodlemans), most of the characters are only ever addressed by their first name — Mike, Rosita, Ash, Johnny, Meena, Gunter, Lance, Stan, etc. This becomes noticeably cumbersome when Buster introduces characters for the next upcoming act.
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Sing / int_67267414	type	Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks
Sing / int_67267414	comment	A trio of "buns" (rabbits) sing a song about "buns".
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Sing / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
Sing / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: The three Russian bears who relentlessly hunt down Mike, and try to swallow him alive multiple times, have absolutely no lighthearted tendencies to their names, and the mood plummets when they appear. This is most noticeable when they barge into the theatre during the dress rehearsal with Mike in tow and demand Buster give them the one-hundred thousand dollars that Mike owes them. The casual way they threaten to murder Mike on the spot in broad daylight is chilling, and of course it's this confrontation that ends up ultimately destroying the theatre which leads to the biggest Darkest Hour of the whole film.
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Sing / int_6a60948a	type	Expressive Ears
Sing / int_6a60948a	comment	Expressive Ears: Buster has big koala ears that droop a bit when he gets depressed over the destruction of the theater. Mike's ears perk upwards when he is amazed. Rosita's usually perked up ears droop when Buster says that he wrote in his notes on her audition that she was "boring to watch" Meena's elephant ears are perpetually folded inwards due to her timidity. However, they fold outwards when she becomes more confident in singing in front of other people.
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Sing / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Sing / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Judith from the bank is humorless and unfeeling towards Buster's dreams and feelings towards the theater. However, she makes two very good points. First off, the theater's business has been so bad that Buster has been forced to steal electricity and water just for rehearsals. She's well within her rights to repossess it due to unpaid bills. She's also legally correct in that the comeback performance is technically trespassing on bank property without permission. As abrasive and arrogant as Mike is towards the others, there are moments where he's correct, albeit rudely. He has a point that Meena freezing up during the auditions is holding up the line for the other contestants, and he's the first to get angry at the revelation that Buster didn't tell the truth about the real prize money amount.
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Sing / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Sing / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Buster—not by the creditors, the bank, or the city and people at large (it takes the comeback show at the end to earn that, with some critical outside assistance), but by the contestants (sans Mike). After The Reveal that the $100,000 was fake and the destruction of the theatre that could have killed them all, they're only concerned about him a day later, they want to make sure he's all right, they point out that at least they all survived unscathed, and they still want to put on the show. One can guess that Ms. Crawly's presence among them means she explained about her error offscreen, but it's also likely simply seeing Buster's reaction in the ruins took a lot of the anger and resentment out of them. They also easily forgive him for how he acts during his Heroic BSoD, although since it's when he's once more enthused about doing the show which they had yearned to be a part of regardless of the money, they're likely too happy to perform to give it much thought. And Meena is such a kind person it makes sense she'd quickly forgive Buster for lashing out.
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Sing / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Sing / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "You know what's great about hitting rock bottom? There's only one way left to go, and that's up!" Also, "Don't let fear get in the way of doing what you love." After Moon Theater is destroyed as a result of Buster's recent mistakes, and all of his fatherâ€™s hard work for decades seemingly goes to waste, the koala showman starts to drown in his own depression and self-loathing. When he hits his lowest point and resigns himself to his fate of washing cars for a living like his dad (exactly the sort of life his father didn't want for him), Buster quietly mutters to himself that heâ€™s glad his father isn't around to see his failures. At the end of the film, after Buster has finally managed to put together a spectacular show and watched his talent contestants soar as newfound stars who are loved by all, the overjoyed koala walks back his previous statement and instead wishes that his father could have been around to enjoy the show.
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Sing / int_6e6b8ca7	type	Tertiary Sexual Characteristics
Sing / int_6e6b8ca7	comment	Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Downplayed with Ash. While she wears a plaid skirt and makeup, she otherwise looks almost indistinguishable gender-wise from her boyfriend and fellow porcupine, Lance. It's lampshaded by Buster at one point, who asks which one is the girl. Her "very funny" response implies they get this a lot (it helps that she also dresses in a very tomboyish manner). This is also downplayed for Rosita, the House Wife pig. While she has slightly longer eyebrows and bigger Hartman Hips than the two male adult pigs in the movie, she doesn't have any other overtly feminine visual markers (makeup, accessories, girly clothes, etc) to slap the audience in the face with her femaleness.
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Sing / int_6fbfa62f	type	Air Guitar
Sing / int_6fbfa62f	comment	Air Guitar: Ash can be seen briefly doing this in one of the offstage cuts during Meena's performance.
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Sing / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Sing / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Buster pulls this twice on Eddie, first when he suddenly appears at the side of Eddie's pool while he's swimming, and then popping up next to him while he's visiting Nana.
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Sing / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Sing / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: The Bears are the main villains as they cause the destruction of Moon Theater and try to murder Mike twice, but Judith the bank owner becomes the Big Bad of Buster's story though she isn't nearly as malevolent as the Bears.
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Sing / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
Sing / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: Rosita has an impressively large number of twenty-five children, and up until recently, she's put her musical ambitions on hold to care for them.
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Sing / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Sing / int_7870735b	comment	When creating the publicity flyers for the competition, Ms. Crawly's glass eye falls out and hits the 0 keyboard twice, advertising a $100,000 grand prize instead of the intended $1,000. Ms. Crawly doesn't check to see if there's no typos before printing them out and retrieving her glass eye. Buster also doesn't get a chance to proofread the flyers before the fan blows them out the window and throughout the city. This means that they don't find out about the mistake until after the auditions are over. Then Buster decides to keep the contestants in the dark about it instead of confessing the typo because he thinks that he can somehow get a hundred grand together in time. This leads to several more problems down the line.
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Sing / int_7886d4d0	type	Decemberâ€“December Romance
Sing / int_7886d4d0	comment	Decemberâ€“December Romance: In the short Love at First Sight, after Miss Crawly's attempts at online dating fail, she meets an elderly lizard named Herman whom she hits it off with.
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Sing / int_7c889239	type	Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal
Sing / int_7c889239	comment	Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: The entire cast, except for the invertebrate background characters (shrimps, spiders, snails, squids) who qualify as Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal instead.
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Sing / int_7d36715f	type	Gasshole
Sing / int_7d36715f	comment	Gasshole: Richard, the buffalo who auditions with "Butterfly", is initially among the auditionees put through by Buster, but is let go when he turns out to fart too much.
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Sing / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Sing / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: A malicious example between Lance and Becky, except Ash walks in on them.
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Sing / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
Sing / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: Some of the contestants are ambiguous when it comes to their age, particularly the younger ones - Ash, Johnny, and Meena. They are either called or implied to be teenagers but none of them are seen attending school, the existence of which is demonstrated by Rosita's piglets getting on a school bus. Ash is called a "teenager" multiple times throughout the film but seems to live without parents, whom are never even mentioned, and is looking for work with her boyfriend until they broke up, so she is probably around eighteen or nineteen. Johnny lives with his father and is referred to as a teenager in the script, but is designed to look and sound like a young adult. Furthermore, when his father goes to prison, there is no mention of child services or social workers. Meena is also labeled as a teenager in the script, lives with her maternal relatives, and acts like a younger teenager (thirteen to sixteen), but a picture held up by someone at a party suggests she has graduated from high school. Furthermore, Meena's singing ability surpasses what is normally expected from an adolescent.
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Sing / int_7fe29ba6	type	Symbolism
Sing / int_7fe29ba6	comment	Symbolism: The movie opens on the Moon Theater towering over the neighboring buildings, as though establishing it as the metaphorical "Broadway Giant" of its times. Years later, when Buster owns it, the existing buildings beside it are notably as tall as the theater. This marks how the Moon Theater is no longer the biggest thing in town, both literally and metaphorically. After Marcus says his final, bittersweet goodbye to Johnny, he backs away from the boy and the shadows casting on him from overhead briefly resemble the bars of a jail cell - signifying how, even though he's started to mend his bond with his son, there's still going to be a lot of distance between them in the days to come, as a consequence of his other actions throughout the film.
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Sing / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Sing / int_7febc23b	comment	Eddie Noodleman shares his Establishing Character Moment with Buster's second one. Their scene in the fancy restaurant shows that Buster knows the rough state the theatre is in but adheres to the phrase "for every cloud a silver lining" a little too much, and Eddie's family has a long history of funding his failed shows. Meanwhile, Eddie himself has been playing The Lancer to Buster for a while, and immediately shoots down the idea of a singing competition being a success.
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Sing / int_8071af62	type	Don't Think, Feel
Sing / int_8071af62	comment	Don't Think, Feel: This is Gunter's advice for Rosita in how to dance, feeling the music instead of trying to memorize the steps. She puts it into practice during the supermarket scene. It's also the advice Buster gives Meena, essentially, to help her get past her Stage Fright, and since the Aesop is one that underlies his whole raison d'etre in running the theatre, it's pretty much the heart and center of the movie.
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Sing / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Sing / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Gunter, no pun intended (by us; we can't speak for the author). The German pig is a very flamboyant and eccentric performer who enjoys chewing a lot of scenery whenever he's singing and dancing onstage.
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Sing / int_8341ccb1	type	World of Funny Animals
Sing / int_8341ccb1	comment	World of Funny Animals: All animals are anthropomorphic in this world, from gorillas and chickens to snails and shrimp. Still, nearly all named characters are mammals.
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Sing / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Sing / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Mike, an actual mouse, ends the movie owing $100,000 to both a bank and the Russian bear mafia, and one of the bears clinging to the back of Mike's car. It's actually quite literal here; Mike exits the movie still in danger, and never returns, not even for the "happy ending" photo; he isn't even mentioned in the sequel.
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Sing / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
Sing / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: According to the film's crew, the city of Calatonia was modeled after Miami, Florida, as well as various different locations in California.
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Sing / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
Sing / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: Inverted without bordering so much on Darker and Edgier; the film isn't without its' humor and lightheartedness, but it's more grounded in reality and less zany compared to Illumination's prior works.
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Sing / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Sing / int_8d718b9e	comment	Brown bears appear to be Russian gangsters.
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Sing / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Sing / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: After Meena fails her first audition, she kicks a nearby tree, causing all of the leaves to fall out. When she passes the tree after the theater is destroyed and the show is cancelled, she sees that new leaves have started to sprout. When Meena's singing literally brings down the house near the end of the show, instead of a regular open-air stage with the theatre's signature crescent moon the audience (both in-story and out) is left with a view right into the clear night sky, with a full moon front and center. Following from the above, after being rebuilt the theatre is rechristened at the end as the New Moon Theatre.
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Sing / int_9350a0b9	type	The Tape Knew You Would Say That
Sing / int_9350a0b9	comment	The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Rosita's mornings are so predictable that she builds a Rube Goldberg contraption that takes care of all twenty-five kids, sends them to school, and tells her husband where his keys are - and it works for all of the rehearsals until the final one.
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Sing / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Sing / int_9438e550	comment	Rosita's husband, Norman, initially gives off a neglectful husband vibe, but the truth is that he's just a workaholic and he really does care for his family. During the climax, as Rosita is swarmed by her piglets after her performance, Norman bolts onstage to give her The Big Damn Kiss.
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Sing / int_94be6b61	type	Coordinated Clothes
Sing / int_94be6b61	comment	Coordinated Clothes: The J-Pop red pandas all wear matching but differently-colored outfits.
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Sing / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Sing / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: A downplayed example (at first)—Buster keeps the bucket his father used to wash cars not as a memorial so much as a reminder of all of the hard work and sacrifice his father put into supporting Buster's dreams. But after the theatre collapses and he finds it buried in the rubble, it becomes a genuinely heartbreaking example, as he feels he has failed his father as well as himself. It's also what he uses when he's forced to go into washing cars himself, but here it becomes more positive again once Eddie joins him.
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Sing / int_9ae69919	type	Indignant Slap
Sing / int_9ae69919	comment	Indignant Slap: Buster tries to speak to several red pandas in Japanese, but ends up insulting them by mistake. One of them gasps and slaps him before they all storm out in a huff.
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Sing / int_9af54b9d	type	Double Take
Sing / int_9af54b9d	comment	Double Take: When Eddie is near the outside gate of his his grandmother's house to visit her, he suddenly gets a phone call from Buster, where he comments on the jacket Eddie's wearing. Eddie says "Oh, thanks", before realizing he's talking on the phone. That's when he realizes Buster is standing right next to him.
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Sing / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
Sing / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: "Firework" by Katy Perry underscores Rosita's introductory scene (and is the same song she later sings during her audition). It's a song about someone who feels unfulfilled in their life and is constantly overlooked by the people around them, before they decide to set themselves free and reach their full potential. It not only reflects Rosita's desire to pursue her dreams and be recognized as a good singer by her family, but it also foreshadows how brightly she'll shine as a star in the climax of the movie. The toads in the audition sing "Jump". Ray the snail sings "Run Like Wind". Poor little thing. Rosita sings "Shake it Off", which is about a girl who keeps dancing and having fun without caring about what other people think of her. Rosita was pretty self-conscious about her dancing skills until the last act of the movie, when she learned to just let go and enjoy the experience of channeling the music through her. Johnny sings Elton John's "I'm Still Standing", a song about someone who moved forward and discovered their own inner strength after breaking up with someone who was a negative influence on them. Johnny was filled with guilt for having unintentionally let his dad's gang be arrested, his father shunned him for it, and he saw his dreams collapsing with the theater. After going through so much, it would make sense if he stopped singing, but Johnny promptly rejoined the theater gang to help rebuild the stage and sing with all his heart. Best of all, his passion and his singing makes his dad realize how much of a jerk he had been and motivates him to do everything in his power to make amends, instead of "fading away" like the protagonist's lost lover in the song. "Set It All Free" is a pretty straightforward example: it's an original song written by Ash about her relationship with Lance. The song tells the story of a girl who discovered her inner strength and reclaimed her sense of self-worth after she had a bad break-up, and she realized her ex-boyfriend had been holding her back from reaching her true potential for years. The ultimate message of the song is about stepping out of someone else's shadow and being your true authentic self, which obviously reflects Ash's new lease on life going forward. Mike sings Frank Sinatra's "My Way". It's about a man who at the end of his life admits that he made a lot of mistakes, but still, he's proud of the life he had and he's ready to go out with dignity. Mike is a selfish Jerkass who bet a lot of money he didn't have, causing the bears to destroy the theater and almost kill Buster and his team. He's full of gambling debts, he may be caught and killed by the bears at any moment since the show is being broadcast on TV, but he decides to go through with his act anyway and pulls it off in great style. The verse about regrets and doing what had to be done also cuts away to Johnny reconciling with his father, who regretted turning his back on his son earlier and broke out of jail to make things right with him. Meena sings "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing", a song about casting aside your worries, your troubles and your fears and living in the moment. The message of the song reflects what Meena has learned from Buster and the rest of her new friends, as she finally comes out of her shell, overcomes her stage fright and embraces her true passion onstage.
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Sing / int_9ebc36bc	type	It's the Same, Now It Sucks!
Sing / int_9ebc36bc	comment	It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Discussed In-Universe; after Buster decides to put on the singing competition, Eddie's response is "Who wants to see another one of those?" Buster argues that the reason why singing competions always work is that there's real talent that comes from real life and it gives anybody a chance at being a star.
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Sing / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Sing / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight" could be one for the Moon Theatre. It's heard during three key scenes in the film: the initial scene that clarifies how Buster fell in love with the world of musical theatre, the aftermath of the Moon Theatre's destruction, and the final scene, in which Nana buys the Moon Theatre and has it restored to its former glory.
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Sing / int_a0d93946	type	The Queen Will Be Watching
Sing / int_a0d93946	comment	The Queen Will Be Watching: To get funding for his singing competition, Buster Moon sets up a dress rehearsal among his contestants to be seen by Nana Noodleman, one of the most famous and influential theater performers in history. If they can put on a good enough show, she'll financially support the endeavor so Buster can actually pay the $100,000 grand prize unintentionally offered.
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Sing / int_a10d8339	type	The Show Must Go On
Sing / int_a10d8339	comment	The Show Must Go On: The final number is full of this: When Judith unplugs Ash's guitar and orders the show to stop, Ash just takes it as the chance to rally the public and start her song unplugged. Next song, when a police chopper threatens to blow him away, Mike fights against the winds so he can finish his song, which gets him to realize he really does love music more than the money. In the last song, when Meena's act literally brings the house down, she takes less than a second's pause to look at the ruined stage, then keeps singing as if nothing had happened, with the night sky and the moon as her backdrop.
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Sing / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Sing / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When Moon Theater collapses, leaving behind nothing but a pile of rubble and dust, Buster is absolutely shattered by the sight. His late father worked hard for thirty years to buy the place so his son could live out his dreams, and when it seems like all that effort was for nothing because of Buster's poor decisions, the poor, guilt-ridden koala is devastated. Johnny's dad, who originally shunned his passion when the gorilla gang was sent to prison because of it, is impressed when he sees him performing on TV and proudly declares him his son, before immediately remembering what he said to him before and feeling sad and remorseful over it. He breaks out of jail just to apologize to Johnny and tell him how proud he is of him.
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Sing / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Sing / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The vengeful Russian bears try to kill Mike three times in the film. During the first two instances, Mike just barely manages to escape with his life, but after their final encounter, his fate is left a lot more ambiguous.
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Sing / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Sing / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Played with for Mike. Although the movie ends with him on the run from the Russian bear mob for cheating at cards, he also got away with an impressive live television performance, a sports car bought with borrowed money that he probably won't repay, and a sexy female mouse who's proven herself to be a loyal companion. All things considered, he ended up rather well despite his Jerkass tendencies. Since Johnny had been raised by a criminal gang, he did pull off some subtly criminal acts like being an accessory to burglary, being a getaway driver for criminals, and when he tries to pull a heist while performing at the theater, he speeds through city streets and causes a T-Bone accident and yet suffers no repercussions despite committing these crimes.
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Sing / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Sing / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Buster's reaction when he learns that his singing contest has been advertised with a hundred grand cash prize - money he does not have. Also, the collective reaction of those attending the dress rehearsal for Nana Noodleman when they look at the glass panels of the giant fish tank and realize that it's cracking right under their feet.
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Sing / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Sing / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Ash has a few moments of being this with Buster. Johnny also has a few moments.
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Sing / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
Sing / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: According to everyone, including Buster himself, the shows put on at his theatre are never any good. Yet, when he's working on the singing competition he proves to have an eye for talent, works with the contestants the exact way a good manager should, and his In-Universe Executive Meddling proves to benefit their acts. Then, his comeback show manages to impress Nana Noodleman, and this was when he was working in a mostly destroyed theatre with amateur (but undeniably talented) singers. A more downplayed example; after Johnny performs "All Of Me" while playing the piano (which he hadn't played since he was a kid), Buster reacts to his playing as though it were atrocious. But from what we see, aside from a few sour notes, his playing was decent.
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Sing / int_af8dad6b	type	Beautiful Singing Voice
Sing / int_af8dad6b	comment	Beautiful Singing Voice: Sing features some some genuinely engaging vocalists: Ash the rocking porcupine, Mike the crooner mouse, Johnny the tenor gorilla, Rosita the sonorous pig, and Meena the glorious elephant. This talent pool is so good that the audience doesn't seem to mind that the theater is a shambles.
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Sing / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Sing / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Johnny comes very close to burglarizing the chest where the "prize money" is, but changes his mind when he sees Buster's notes on his profile - namely, the "Natural born singer" part. Bonus points in that not only does he make this decision whilst no one is watching, but he does so despite the assumption that $100,000 lies within in that chest.
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Sing / int_b61b755f	type	Tomboy
Sing / int_b61b755f	comment	Downplayed with Ash. While she wears a plaid skirt and makeup, she otherwise looks almost indistinguishable gender-wise from her boyfriend and fellow porcupine, Lance. It's lampshaded by Buster at one point, who asks which one is the girl. Her "very funny" response implies they get this a lot (it helps that she also dresses in a very tomboyish manner).
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Sing / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Sing / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: A comedic example During their rehearsals, Gunter watches Rosita trip and fall on her face and then when Buster asks "Are you okay?", he assumes the koala must be talking to him. Although with the context of the scene, it can also be read as him trying to defuse the atmosphere. Mike has shades of this; he is so confident he's going to win the singing competition (and the "$100,000" prize) that he near-constantly trash-talks the other acts and takes out a massive loan to buy a high-end car to impress Nancy. In his defense he's an excellent performer, singing Frank Sinatra's "My Way" with a helicopter circling above him. Ash's boyfriend Lance, who insists on being the lead singer and songwriter of their band despite Ash's obvious talent, and will stop any song or quit any gig when it seems like she'll get more attention than him. When she gets picked for the singing competition instead of him, he tries to pressure her to quit since he's not the one in the spotlight. Later, he cheats on Ash with another girl porcupine because Ash was "never around," despite the fact that she was working to win $100,000 for both of them. Ash calls him out on it.
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Sing / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
Sing / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: After Meena returns home from the theater and tells everyone that she technically made the cut, her mom tells her this word to word. After being moved by Johnny's performance on TV, Marcus breaks out of prison to give Johnny his approval by telling him how proud he is of him, while also apologizing for shunning him earlier.
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Sing / int_bd9a2438	type	Exploding Fish Tanks
Sing / int_bd9a2438	comment	Exploding Fish Tanks: The glass stage full of bioluminescent squid breaks when the bears smash the chest open to get the prize money, causing the theater to flood and eventually collapse.
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Sing / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Sing / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Eddie's grandmother has the name Nana Noodleman.
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Sing / int_c01db132	type	Messy Pig
Sing / int_c01db132	comment	Messy Pig: Some of Rosita's children can be sloppy. Justified due to their age.
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Sing / int_c099ca1a	type	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses
Sing / int_c099ca1a	comment	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Subverted with Ash. She wears a plaid skirt for most of the movie, but doesn't appreciate Buster's assumption that she'll enjoy being in a frilly sparkly dress because she's a teenage girl. Her final performance has her in a Pimped-Out Dress with a leather jacket on top.
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Sing / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Sing / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: After Johnny's absence from the gorilla gang's greatest ever heist causes them all to be imprisoned and exposes their secret identities to the police, Marcus is furious with him. When Johnny also admits that he doesn't want to be in his gang at all and would rather be a singer, he bitterly declares him to be a disappointment.
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Sing / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Sing / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Buster repeatedly fails to convince the J-Pop Red Pandas that they weren't selected as contestants, but when he finally decides to add them to the show after the Boy Band frogs can't get their act together his poor choice of phrases from a Japanese-English phrasebook unwittingly insults them, resulting in one of them slapping his face and all leaving in a huff.
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Sing / int_c4d293c4	type	Let's See YOU Do Better!
Sing / int_c4d293c4	comment	Let's See YOU Do Better!: When Mike sees Rosita and Gunter performing on TV, he quickly laughs them off. Another viewer taunts him with this, which wounds his pride enough for him to go back and actually sing.
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Sing / int_c675d08c	type	Compliment Backfire
Sing / int_c675d08c	comment	Compliment Backfire: Buster cheerfully tells Nana Noodleman that she doesn't look "a day over 90".
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Sing / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sing / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Judith's arrival is heralded by a few pan flute notes from Once Upon a Time in America. Several of the shots during the destruction of the theatre are rather reminiscent of Titanic (1997). When the water first bursts through the backstage area resembles a similar iconic moment in one of the ship's hallways, and when the contestants struggle up above the water near the top of the auditorium and are clinging to pillars around the chandelier, it's quite similar to the passengers below the ship's Grand Staircase dome. The female porcupine that Lance cheats on Ash with is named Becky. Nana's introduction, butler, and the design of her mansion bring to mind Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard. Meena's grandfather is dressed like Babar. Ash getting a bit too wrapped up in her performance of "Set It All Free" and ending the number with a knee slide, only to discover she's stunned her audience into silence, is a nod to the "Johnny B. Goode" scene from "Back To The Future". Unlike Marty McFly however, Ash does get a roaring applause from the crowd, after it becomes clear that her song is over.
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Sing / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Sing / int_ce9f550c	comment	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: After some of Buster's initial chosen acts drop out of the show, he decides to give the Japanese red panda Girl Group another chance, and tries telling them so in Japanese... only to get slapped as the red pandas storm off.note What he says roughly translates to, "Your feets' toenails are very smelly."
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Sing / int_d24c0700	type	The Foreign Subtitle
Sing / int_d24c0700	comment	The Foreign Subtitle: In Brazil, the film is known as "Sing - Quem Canta Seus Males Espanta". The subtitle is a common Brazilian idiom which translates to "those who sing scare away their demons". In Argentina, the film was released as "Sing - Â¡Ven y Canta!". The subtitles means "Come and sing!" in English.
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Sing / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Sing / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Lance goes to the auditions, but when only Ash is selected, he immediately decides that entering the contest would be selling out. Then, when Ash complains about Buster trying to change her image, he tells her to go along with it if she wants to win, apparently feeling she's not selling out enough. Worse, he had berated her for singing in the tiki-restaurant and glares at her when Ash gets carried away during the audition; but he seems to happily enjoy singing his duet with Becky.
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Sing / int_d5a060a8	type	Interchangeable Asian Cultures
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Sing / int_d5c3da0c	comment	This is also downplayed for Rosita, the House Wife pig. While she has slightly longer eyebrows and bigger Hartman Hips than the two male adult pigs in the movie, she doesn't have any other overtly feminine visual markers (makeup, accessories, girly clothes, etc) to slap the audience in the face with her femaleness.
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Sing / int_d6787152	type	Help, I'm Stuck!
Sing / int_d6787152	comment	Help, I'm Stuck!: The flood pushes Meena into the ticket booth window, and the force of the water got her stuck inside it and caused the water inside the theater to build up. Rosita and Gunter tried to get her unplugged but they were unsuccessful until Johnny helped out; if it weren't for him, Meena would have drowned.
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Sing / int_d67e900a	type	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
Sing / int_d67e900a	comment	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Buster resorts to washing cars after the theater collapses and the property is seized by the bank.
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Sing / int_db0ffe92	type	Follow in My Footsteps
Sing / int_db0ffe92	comment	Follow in My Footsteps: Johnny the gorilla is faced with this dilemma. His father wants him to join the gang he runs, but Johnny just wants to sing.
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Sing / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Sing / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Pete. He's among the contestants Buster picks for rehearsals, but he's later knocked unconscious in an accident involving Ms. Crawly's glass eye, having to go to the hospital. This also applies to the trio of frogs, as while Buster initially picked them as a group act, they break up due to two of them complaining that the third is an "intolerable egomaniac".
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Sing / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Sing / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Nana Noodleman, the sheep songstress singing at Buster's backstory. She's Eddie's grandmother, and the one who ends up saving the theater. Also the three Russian bears that go into the club that Mike is performing outside of. They seem inconsequential, until Mike eventually gets into the club and cheats them out of a lot of money in a poker game. Then they end up unwittingly causing the flooding and destruction of the Moon Theatre and the subsequent Darkest Hour.
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Sing / int_de0df7a0	type	Stock Scream
Sing / int_de0df7a0	comment	Stock Scream: The Wilhelm scream is heard when Ray the Snail is crushed underneath Richard's foot, to the shock of everyone around him.
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Sing / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Sing / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Eddie. He doesn't have a job because his family is extremely wealthy, and the only reason why Buster's theater wasn't shut down years before was because Eddie's family funded his shows, but have since decided not finance another of Buster's flops. The only time he's seen doing anything that resembles work is when he decides to help Buster wash cars during his Heroic BSoD, and at the end when he is in charge of the background music and lighting.
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Sing / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Sing / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: Despite having several subplots that tie into one main plot, this film does not seem to have any specific Big Bad. The only thing close to an antagonist is Judith, however she is just doing her job.
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Sing / int_e116fedc	type	Play-Along Prisoner
Sing / int_e116fedc	comment	Play-Along Prisoner: Johnny's father is strong enough to tear the wall of his prison cell down with his bare hands, but because he knows he'll just be captured again, he has no reason to, until he decides to make amends with his son, that is.
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Sing / int_e2993dab	type	Four-Legged Insect
Sing / int_e2993dab	comment	Four-Legged Insect: The cephalopod variant - the bio-luminescent squids have four arms each.
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Sing / int_e3edc213	type	The Show Must Go Wrong
Sing / int_e3edc213	comment	The Show Must Go Wrong: All of the poor decisions the main cast have made throughout the movie (specifically Buster and Mike) converge at the special dress rehearsal for Nana, which ends with the entire theater in ruins.
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Sing / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Sing / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The plight of the Moon Theater, and the fact that one of the underlying reasons for the contest is to repair and save it from being repossessed so it can be restored to its former glory, is inspired by the Atlanta Fox Theatre—from there being someone (in this case Joe Patten) who had an apartment right in the theater while trying to save it, to musicians coming together to raise support for it, and even the detail that donations were taken from people all over the city in buckets. While the real theater never actually collapsed, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, saved from demolition to become a parking lot, and remains a monument and the home of the Summer Music Festival to this day.
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Sing / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
Sing / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: The Moon Theatre's destruction. It's set off by the bears bringing their extra significant weight up on the glass stage, then by smashing the chest. The glass develops cracks, letting the water out in a huge cascade through the auditorium. Then because Meena becomes stuck in the ticket seller window, the water has nowhere to go, causing it to back up and flood the whole place, which only gets worse when the pressure makes the pipes themselves burst. Cue the collapse of pillars and balconies, and ultimately the entire theatre when Meena is eventually unstuck by Johnny and the water can escape.
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Sing / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
Sing / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: Ash takes a pair of scissors to the hemline of the "pop princess" dress Buster tries to make her wear, winding up with an especially badass glittering accessory to her red leather jacket in her final performance.
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Sing / int_e5fb3d1f	type	Hey, Let's Put on a Show
Sing / int_e5fb3d1f	comment	Hey, Let's Put on a Show: This is the main premise of the film. Buster Moon's theater is in a state of disrepair and his business is about to be foreclosed, so he decides to put on a singing competition, as a last-ditch effort to save the building and promote Moon Theater to the people of Calatonia.
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Sing / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
Sing / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: Meena the elephant is one of these, at least when it comes to singing in front of other people.
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Sing / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Sing / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Played with for Mike. Although the movie ends with him on the run from the Russian bear mob for cheating at cards, he also got away with an impressive live television performance, a sports car bought with borrowed money that he probably won't repay, and a sexy female mouse who's proven herself to be a loyal companion. All things considered, he ended up rather well despite his Jerkass tendencies.
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Sing / int_ebe5d89c	type	Disco Dan
Sing / int_ebe5d89c	comment	Disco Dan: Some of the characters are fond of notably dated music. Mike is a prominent example, since his character is modeled heavily after Frank Sinatra and he sings several of the late musician's songs throughout the movie.
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Sing / int_eeb2d092	type	Killer Gorilla
Sing / int_eeb2d092	comment	Johnny the gorilla's father is a brutish gangster, alongside his fellow thieves. Johnny himself averts this, being a Gentle Giant.
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Sing / int_ef20d7bc	type	A Minor Kidroduction
Sing / int_ef20d7bc	comment	A Minor Kidroduction: The opening starts with a young Buster being introduced to the world of musical theater, when he attends one of Nana Noodleman's shows with his father.
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Sing / int_f174d8e8	type	Trying Not to Cry
Sing / int_f174d8e8	comment	Trying Not to Cry: Ash while singing "Call Me Maybe" and remembering her boyfriend cheating on her the previous night. She fails and completely breaks down in tears in front of her fellow contestants.
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Sing / int_f1e0c442	type	Rock is Authentic, Pop is Shallow
Sing / int_f1e0c442	comment	Rock is Authentic, Pop is Shallow: Buster tries to make punk rocker Ash into a pop princess, giving her the peppy "Call Me, Maybe" to sing. Ash resents this, so for the final performance she sings her own song instead, the personal, hard rocking "Set It All Free", and brings down the house.
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Sing / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
Sing / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: Buster and Ash briefly sing "Call Me Maybe" together when Buster presents the porcupine rocker with an upbeat pop song that she thinks is way too cheesy for her tastes. Ash provides a far more depressing rendition of the song later in the film, when she's heartbroken about Lance betraying her and she's trying her best not to break down in tears. Moon Theater and Buster's love for it is introduced during the musical number, "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight", that's performed by Nana Noodleman during the film's opening scene. When Moon Theater falls to pieces in front of the entire cast later in the movie, a somber, muted and melancholy reprise of the song underscores Buster's heartbreak over the loss of his home, his business and his father's legacy.
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Sing / int_f5289c99	type	Shaking the Rump
Sing / int_f5289c99	comment	Shaking the Rump: The bunny trio do this twice: once as part of their song and again during the final performance, when they're cheering Meena on.
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Sing / int_f5f79e56	type	Hard-Work Montage
Sing / int_f5f79e56	comment	Hard-Work Montage: When Buster, Eddie, Miss Crawly, and the talent show contestants gather together in the ruins of Moon Theater to prepare for their upcoming show, all of their diligent efforts to clear away the rubble are shown in a montage as they work hard throughout the day together.
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Sing / int_f75cf3bd	type	Terrible Interviewees Montage
Sing / int_f75cf3bd	comment	Terrible Interviewees Montage: Invoked, though the humor doesn't come from poor performances so much as the incongruous juxtaposition of each artist with their chosen material (a snail singing Ride like the wind, for example). The majority of acts end up being quite good with a few just being silly despite the goodness and only a handful being outright bad.
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Sing / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Sing / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: According to her voice actor, this is Rosita's character arc. She wants her dreams to be recognized, but her piglets aren't mature enough to take it seriously, and her Workaholic husband is too drained to give more than a halfhearted response.
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Sing / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Sing / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: Twice. The first one is focused on Rosita, Ash, and Johnny. Rosita can't manage to dance well in spite of Gunter's help and is close to giving up. Ash breaks up with her boyfriend after discovering he has cheated on hernote professionally, by working with another musician, though possibly more as they were clearly about to kiss before Ash interrupted and left her brokenhearted. Johnny indirectly causes his father (and his entire gang) to get arrested, is harshly rejected for it afterwards, and tries to steal the "$100,000" prize money to pay his bail. Thankfully, they all rebound from it. The second one is when the theatre is destroyed. Not only do the contestants have to go back to their lives, with Mike, Johnny and Ash having lost something along the way, but Buster, who until then was unfailingly optimistic and go-getter, is completely annihilated and just gives up on everything.
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Sing / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Sing / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Ms. Crawly's glass eye constantly popping out of her socket. "Has anyone seen my glass eye?" The red pandas constantly show up and start dancing. Ash's quills flying off her body. Ms. Crawly's inability to deliver a drink without messing it up. Nana's glare and accompanying sung Scare Chord.
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Sing / int_fa4c90cb	type	Split-Screen Phone Call
Sing / int_fa4c90cb	comment	Split-Screen Phone Call: Parodied. Buster calls Eddie when the latter is on his way to visit Nana Noodleman, and they are shown in split screen. However, Buster suddenly comments on the jacket Eddie is wearing, and the split in the screen disappears to reveal to both Eddie and the audience that they are standing right next to each other.
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Sing / int_fb378c33	type	Oktoberfest
Sing / int_fb378c33	comment	Downplayed with Gunter, being a fat German pig, sometimes Germans and Europeans are represented by pigs, and him being fat and jolly is a German stereotype.
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Sing / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
Sing / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: Mike is threatened at one point in the final performance by a helicopter that nearly draws him into its rotor. A hovering helicopter would create a downdraft, not an updraft.
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Sing / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Sing / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Some of the auditionees, such as the bunnies, Ray the snail, and Richard the buffalo, return to watch, cheer and sing along during the show at the end. Also, Pete the camel is in the group photo along with the other contestants at the Grand Re-Opening of the theater. After Ash catches Lance with another singer and kicks them out, the other girl tries to go back in to get her sunglasses, but is stopped by Ash slamming the door. Later on, when she performs her song "Set It All Free", she puts on those very same sunglasses before tossing them into the crowd halfway through her number. She also makes some killer alterations to the pop princess dress Buster keeps trying to push on her. In their introductory scene, Ash and Lance are turned down for a gig because their punk-rock music is inappropriate for the venue (a tiki bar). Later on, after their breakup, Ash sees Lance and Becky performing at the very same venue. When Eddie is introduced telling Buster he should just give up on the theater if he's falling behind on bills and they can do something together instead, Buster snarks "You mean sit around and play video games all day?". Later on, when Buster visits Eddie at his pool, they end up doing just that. At multiple points throughout the film, the frog band is shown having trouble working together and getting into fights over the lead singer's egomania. Eventually, after one last argument, they decide to drop out of the competition entirely, with the lead singer storming away in tears.
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Sing / int_ffb70786	type	Abominable Auditorium
Sing / int_ffb70786	comment	Abominable Auditorium: Moon Theater is of the Non-Functioning variety. In its glory days, it was a highly successful venue; now it's falling apart, its owner Buster Moon has to scrimp to make ends meet (stealing electricity from the building next door, for example) and the bank is threatening to repossess it. The singing competition that makes up the plot of the film is Buster's last ditch attempt to raise enough money for restorations, and he manages to make enough to upgrade the stage, but an accident during rehearsals causes a catastrophic flood that destroys the theater. After the contestants do their performances in the ruins regardless and it becomes a sensation, Buster finally gets enough money to restore the theater better than before.
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Sing	hasFeature	Laid-Back Koala / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	London Gangster / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Massive Numbered Siblings / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Misplaced a Decimal Point / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Moe / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Musical World Hypotheses / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	National Animal Stereotypes / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Non-Residential Residence / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	One-Word Title / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Parents as People / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Performance Anxiety / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Police Pig / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Preview Piggybacking / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Prickly Porcupine / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Production Foreshadowing / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Reality Has No Subtitles / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Repeating Ad / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Ridiculously Cute Critter / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Rock is Authentic, Pop is Shallow / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Rule of Personification Conservation / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Russian Bear / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Sapient Eat Sapient / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Sequel Non-Entity / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Sexy Silhouette / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Shell Backpack / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Ships That Pass in the Night / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Short-Distance Phone Call / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Showgirl Skirt / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	So Proud of You / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Species Subversives / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Split-Screen Phone Call / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Stage Mom / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Stock Scream / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Storefront Television Display / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Street Musician / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Technician Versus Performer / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Terrible Interviewees Montage / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	The Cake Is a Lie / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	The Napoleon / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	The Queen Will Be Watching / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	The Rock Star / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	The Show Must Go On / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	The Show Must Go Wrong / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Time-Passes Montage / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Trailer Joke Decay / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Uncertain Doom / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Uncle Pennybags / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Unwillingly Girly Tomboy / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Vague Age / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Wake-Up Call / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	White-Dwarf Starlet / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	World of Funny Animals / int_ec2c627b
Sing	hasFeature	Awesome Art / Sugar Wiki / int_ec2c627b

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