It was 2012.
“Pitch Perfect” was released at the height of the “singing competition” genre, one that had been popularized (and quickly run into the ground) by “Glee” — itself a thin satire riding on the coattails of popular reality shows like “American Idol” and “The X Factor.” Even by the time the first “Sing” movie hit theaters in 2016, the sing-off movie was starting to grow stale, harkening back to a simpler time when fresh covers of pop hits were a source of joy and not a product of a viral clip-making machine run by Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show.” But the first “Sing” was…The post Sing 2 Review: Let’s Close the Curtains on Sing-Off Movies appeared first on /Film.
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