{"id":11058,"date":"2017-08-21T22:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T02:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2017-08-21T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T02:10:02","slug":"sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/sing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Behold the very first stage lit entirely by squid power!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sing<\/strong>, released in 2016<\/p>\n<p>Buster Moon owns a theatre but his productions haven&#8217;t done well lately. In fact, the bank is about to foreclose on him. He comes up with one last idea &#8212; a singing competition. He was going to make the prize $1000 but due to an accident the ads say the prize is $100 000. He has some terrific singers, but they all have their own problems they&#8217;re worried about.<\/p>\n<p>This is a charming and amusing movie. It&#8217;s about good old fashioned values like being true to yourself and working together.<\/p>\n<p>The plot isn&#8217;t anything new but the characters and songs are delightful.<\/p>\n<p>Stars the voices of Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon. Directed by Garth Jennings (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/movies-i-really-dont-want-you-to-see\/\"><strong>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/strong><\/a>) and Christophe Lourdelet (story artist on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/despicable-me-2\/\"><strong>Despicable Me 2<\/strong><\/a>). The soundtrack is filled with songs you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Behold the very first stage lit entirely by squid power!&#8221; Sing, released in 2016 Buster Moon owns a theatre but his productions haven&#8217;t done well lately. In fact, the bank is about to foreclose on him. He comes up with one last idea &#8212; a singing competition. He was going to make the prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,9,6,5],"class_list":["post-11058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11058"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11064,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions\/11064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}