Welp. Sing is looking a lot less good.

Rating: 2/10 (17 July 2016)

Seriously, if Universal cannot handle animals and humans, how do you think it's going to handle animal-human hybrids, let alone human-animal hybrids that sing?... Sorry, I got sidetracked. *ahem*.
Much like Daddy's Home and The Road Chip, I was held against my will to watch this train-wreck. Right when I entered the theater, I had set the bar so low to the ground only an ant would be able to limbo underneath it. So clearly someone in the movie had a pet ant, because it limbo'd underneath it in spectacularly lazy fashion.
The story is predictable and boring. Many times over I groaned at some line of dialogue and put my face in the palm of my hand. I can only point out maybe two scenes that got a chuckle out of me, and even then they were lame compared to other things that came out of this year. The little white dog Gidget has a crush on our main character? Well, she's gonna get him by the end of it! Never mind that he has no idea she even exists... okay, that's a bit of a stretch. They talk to each other, but Max (the main character) never looks at her and just kinda stares into the distance. So when Max goes missing and Gidget decides to recruit pets to save him, while making a speech proclaiming her true love. It was at this point I whispered to person next to me "he has no idea you exist", which in turn got a laugh out of them.
Let's talk more about the characters. They're bad. I think the only decent one is Snowball (Kevin Hart? What's he doing in a PG movie? I thought he was busy with Central Intelligence!), and even then that's really not enough to warrant good characters. Quite frankly, Max is unlikable. Duke tries to have a tragic backstory but it's completely forgotten about within the the next minute. Chloe is alright I guess, but still only barely. I already talked about Gidget, who is probably the worst character. Every other character they have serves little to no purpose and is either there for being a certain animal or for just existing.
The only reason I gave this a 2 out of 10 and not a 1 out of 10 is because the animation is tolerable. But other than that, this movie is not good.
And before you use the "Oh it's just a kids movie" or "The kids loved it so I loved it" excuses, let me say this. I watched Finding Nemo day one, and I keep coming back to that masterpiece 13 years later. And apparently, that's just a dumb kids movie as well.