BUSTER MOON AND HIS FRIENDS COME BACK AND SEE THINGS BIG

Whether you are a child or an adult, do not miss the second episode of “Tous en scène” where our favorite animals live new adventures. to the sound of frenzied music.

In 2017, Garth Jennings introduced us to the adventures of the koala, Buster Moon, director of the Los Angeles theater. This film was inspired by the show “Pop Idol” in England, “American Idol” in the United States and “Nouvelle Star” in France.
In order to save the place where he discovered his vocation, Buster Moon organizes a singing competition, endowed with 100,000 dollars following a typing error. Following this, the number of applicants is no longer counted. Among them are the sow, Rosita; the female porcupine Ash; the elephant, Meena and the mouse Mike. After many setbacks and the help of the former singer Nana who bought the land, he ended up rebuilding the theater.

The main characters

“Tous en scène” (“Sing” in the original version) is an American-French-Japanese animated film. There is also a version in Quebec, “Chantez”. For the dubbing, we find the voices of American and French artists, including:

Matthiew Mc Conaughey / Patrick Bruel: Buster Moon
Reese Witherspoon / Jenifer: Rosita:
Seth Mc Farlane / Vincent Ropion: Mike
Scarlett Johaansson / Elodie Martelet: Ash
John C. Reilly / Mark Lesser: Eddie
Taron Egerton / Sacha Perez: Johnny
Tori Kelly / Chloé Renaud: Meena
Garth Jennings Gary Francq: Miss Crawly
Nick Kroll / Laurent Gerra: Gunter

The soundtrack

Joby Talbot produced the soundtrack for “Tous en scene”. The film contains 65 pop songs, the rights to which cost 15% of the $ 75 million budget. We recognize:

Happy Birthday; Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty); Crazy In Love (Beyoncé and Jay-Z); Jump (Van Halen); Anaconda (Nicki Minaj); Ride Like The Wind (Christopher Cross) Stay With Me (Sam Smith) !; Childhood Memories (Ennio Morricone); True Colors (Cyndi Lauper); Nessun Dorma! – Turandot, act 3 (Luciano Pavarotti); Faith (Ryan Tedder, s. Wonder and Francis Farewell Starlite); Under Pressure (Queen and David Bowie); Gimme Some Lovin (Spencer Davis Group); Firework (Katy Perry); Bad Romance (Lady Gaga); The Ketchup Song (Las Ketchup); Ben (Michael Jackson); I’m Still Standing (Elton John); Bamboleo (Gipsy Kings); Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Wham!); Hallelujah (Jennifer Hudson, Tori Kelly); My Way (Seth Macfarlane); Don’t You Worry ’bout A Thing (Tori Kelly); Faith (Steve Wonder, Ariana Grande)

The nominations

The film was a great success in the United States and in France. In 2017, he received several nominations:
Golden globes: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for “Faith” (Ryan Tedder, Steve Wonder and Francis Farewell Starlite).
People’s choice Awards: Best block boster of the end of the year.
Annie Awards: Best Music for Joby Talbot in an Animated Film.
Kids’ choice Awards: Best Animated Feature, Best Voice in an Animated Feature and Best Animal for Reese Whiterspoon, Best Soundtrack.
Saturn Award: Best animated film.

A suite

At the end of January 2017, a sequel is announced “Tous en scene 2” for December 25, 2020 but it will finally be released on December 22, 2021.

“Sing 2”

The continuation of the adventure of Buster Moon and his friends was eagerly awaited. It’s done since this second part arrived in France as a Christmas present on December 22, 2021.

Our animal stars are putting on a new show in the Crystal Tower Theater Hall in Redshore City. All the protagonists of the team return to center stage by fetching the king of rock, the lion Clay Calloway., Retired for 15 years. It won’t be easy for Buster to keep his promise to show biz wolf Jimmy Crystal. The latter takes the opportunity to replace Rosita with his own daughter, Porsha, in the leading role.
The choreographies of flamingos on roller skates and lemurs who tap dance punctuate the scenes. Good humor is always present thanks to the escapades of Miss Crawly, Buster Moon’s assistant. A big absentee, however, Mike the Mouse.

This second opus takes place in Red Shore City with new characters and another excellent soundtrack with Coldplay and 4 U2 titles including a new track entitled “Your Song Saved My Life”.
This episode is even better than the first. The actors of the original version perform their own titles although they are not trained singers like Scarlett Johansson or Reese WIitherspoon, Taron Egerton, Nick Kroll or Tori Kelly. who covered “Let’s go crazy” from Prince.

Great hits in the credits

Even more current great hits in this second part of the musical, still under the musical direction of Joby. In the original version, the actors cover the titles of big names in the song such as Billie Eilish, Drake, Elton John, The Weeknd, Prince, TaylorSwift, BTS, Cardi B, U2 or Coldplay, Dionne Warwick, Ariana Grande, Darlene Love, Pharrell .Williams …
We leave you with the surprise of discovering the titles and humming them during the session. Some clues, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” (Elton John), “Bad Guy” (Billie Eilish) or “I still haven’t find what i’m looking for” (U2)

More impressive dubbing

This time, we have newbies like Pharrell Williams, Bono, Halsey or Bobby Cannavale in the original version. We discover Gérard Lanvin, Camille Combal, Damien Bonnard, Lola Dubini and Fatoumata Kaba in the French version.
The voices of the main characters are:

Matthiew Mc Conaughey / Damien Ferrette: Buster Moon
Reese Witherspoon / Jenifer Bartoli: Rosita
Scarlett Johansson / Elodie Martelet: Ash
Taron Egerton / Camille Combal: Johnny
Bobby Cannavale / Damien Bonnard: Jimmy Crystal
Halsey / Laura Dubini: Porsha Crystal
Nick Kroll / Laurent Gerra: Gunter
Bono / Gérard Lanvin: Clay Calloway
Letitia Wright / Fatoumata Kaba: Nooshy
Pharrell Williams / Geoffrey Loval: Alfonso

Don’t wait any longer, and take advantage of the end-of-year holidays to go see this second part of “Tous en scène” with your family: Entertainment for young and old.
Considering the quality of this musical, we wish it success.

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