Illumination’s animated movies Sing and Sing 2 are about as harmless, inoffensive, and servicey as they come: They’re “Let’s put on a show!” movies where animals voiced by celebrities (Matthew McConaughey, Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon, Nick Kroll, Tori Kelly, Bono, and a whole bunch more) have small problems and anxieties, which they lay to rest by singing pop-music covers for enthusiastic audiences. There’s a lot of running around, things fall down and go boom, then there’s a big finale as they all sing together. Netflix’s new short Sing: Thriller does all that in 10 minutes, with fewer emotional arcs, fewer celebrities, and just one pop cover: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
The short is mostly just a check-in on the sprawling cast of the two movies after the events of Sing 2: They now have a successful theater that puts on sold-out musical revues, the latest of which is a horror jukebox musical
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