Sing

While not especially deep, the combination of a star-studded cast and an equally star-studded music catalogue make for a fun time.

Sing is by no means the first animation to incorporate the talent-show format into its narrative, but it's certainly the most successful.

It helps that unlike the TV talent shows that inspired it, Sing hangs on to the popular, gifted contestants instead of sticking with the hot, marketable ones.

A modest family feature that offers more than empty flash.

It's good fun.

Perfectly likable stuff of the sort that's harder to create than critics realise. But nothing all that memorable.

The songs function as hinges, but it's clear they were imposed to be the engine of the script and not the other way around; Each musical number is tedious... [Full review in Spanish]

It possesses a cheery disposition that's downright infectious.

It remains low on substance, but all concerns about a lack of smart subtext fly out the window when you're enjoying the spectacle of a 
pig vamping to Taylor Swift 
while dressed as some sort of disco Batgirl.

While beautifully animated is too concerned with being a crowd pleaser to be about much of anything.