60 Fun Facts About Sing 2

What is the title of the sci-fi stage musical that Buster's troupe mounts for Jimmy Crystal in Sing 2?

Out of This World is a title blurted out mid-audition, before a word of the show exists, and Jimmy gives the troupe three weeks to write and stage the whole thing.

What kind of animal is Ash, the punk-rock guitarist of Buster's troupe?

A porcupine, and the troupe's one true rocker: when Sing 2 opens she has left to play solo in a club, and Buster has to win her back before the trip.

What kind of animal is Buster Moon?

A koala, and a small one: when Jimmy Crystal loses his temper, he picks Buster up and dangles him over the edge of his skyscraper.

Where do Buster and his troupe travel to make an impression on the big-time entertainment world?

Redshore City turns them away at first: Crystal Entertainment's front desk refuses the troupe entry, so they sneak into the building and onto the stage uninvited.

Which talent scout is unimpressed by Buster's show at the start of Sing 2?

Suki Lane tells Buster he would never make it in the big leagues and leaves with his popcorn, yet she is the one who later sets him free when her own boss locks him up.

What kind of animal is entertainment mogul Jimmy Crystal?

A white wolf with a buzzer under his paw: by the time Buster's troupe gatecrashes his auditions, Jimmy Crystal has already sent a dozen acts offstage within seconds.

Who pitches the space-themed sci-fi musical that Jimmy greenlights?

Gunter blurts the idea out just as Jimmy is about to throw the troupe off his stage, and Jimmy only bites because the pitch promises songs by his favorite rock star, Clay Calloway.

What was the name of Clay Calloway's late wife, whose death sent him into seclusion?

Ruby died 15 years before the story begins, and Clay has shut himself away ever since, finding it too painful to perform without her.

Who voices Clay Calloway?

Bono was the only name on the director's list: an old lion who had lost his roar needed a voice nobody could mistake, and the singer took his first lead voice role to supply it.

How does Clay scare Buster's iguana assistant away on her first visit?

With a paintball gun, the reclusive rock star drives her off his property, and it takes a second visit from Buster's troupe to talk him round.

What phobia does Rosita reveal during rehearsals?

Acrophobia (heights) costs Rosita her lead role when she freezes before a high jump, yet in the finale she leaps to catch Buster when Jimmy drops him from a catwalk.

Who takes over Rosita's lead role in the space musical during rehearsals in Sing 2?

Porsha gets the part only because her father, Jimmy Crystal, insists on it; she proves such a wooden actress that Buster later offers to swap the roles back.

Which pop star voices Jimmy Crystal's daughter in Sing 2?

Halsey took the character's big number, a cover of 'Could Have Been Me', away to her home studio and sent back finished vocals within hours, the director said.

What is the name of the harsh choreographer hired to teach Johnny to dance?

Klaus Kickenklober is billed as the best choreographer in town, but he bullies Johnny so relentlessly that Johnny goes looking for another teacher.

Which street dancer takes over as Johnny's teacher?

Nooshy coaches Johnny after his official choreographer bullies him, cheers him through the finale from the wings, and leaves town with the troupe as one of its own.

What kind of animal is Johnny's street-dancer teacher?

A lynx who dances in the street for a living, she rebuilds the confidence that Johnny's official choreographer had drained out of him.

Meena falls in love with Alfonso, who sells what?

Ice cream is how they meet: he offers the tongue-tied Meena a cone outside the theater, and she keeps buying more just to stand near him.

Who voices Alfonso, the elephant Meena falls for, in Sing 2?

Pharrell Williams was already part of the studio's family, having written 'Happy' for Despicable Me 2, and said he was honored to act opposite Tori Kelly's Meena.

What kind of animal is Darius, the egocentric actor cast opposite Meena?

A yak, and a vain one: Meena has never been in love and cannot fake it opposite him, however many times they rehearse the scene.

The city where Buster's troupe tries to hit the big time in Sing 2 is modeled on which real city?

Las Vegas was new to the director, who admitted he only knew it from the movies, so he was sent to scout the Strip before the film's desert city of giant hotels was designed.

In Sing 2, whom does Johnny call to keep Jimmy's bodyguards at bay on opening night?

His father's gang, jailed in the first film, announce that they are the theater's security now and hold off Jimmy's bodyguards in the lobby while the show goes on.

In Sing 2, who distracts hotel security so that Buster's musical can go ahead?

Norman and the piglets are Rosita's own idea: she phones her husband to set the children loose on the hotel, and the guards are too busy chasing them to stop the show.

What happens to Jimmy Crystal after the curtain call?

He is arrested by the police seconds after walking on stage to claim the credit for the show, and it is his own assistant who points the officers at him.

Who gives Clay the courage to finally take the stage?

Ash leading the crowd in his song is what unfreezes him: Clay had stopped at his cue, saying he was not ready, and walks out playing once he hears the whole audience singing it.

Which Sing 2 character is voiced by the film's writer-director, Garth Jennings?

Miss Crawly, Buster's elderly assistant with the glass eye, has the director's own voice in both films, and in this one she is sent alone to find Clay Calloway's hideout.

Which song does Meena sing in her love duet in Sing 2's finale?

I Say a Little Prayer only takes flight when Meena pictures her real crush, who is watching from the audience, in place of her vain stage partner.

Which American fashion label designed stage costumes for the animal cast of Sing 2?

Rodarte is the label of sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, who had dressed the ballerinas of Black Swan before turning to a cast of singing animals.

Sing 2 opens with Buster's troupe staging a psychedelic musical version of which children's classic?

Alice in Wonderland, set to Prince's 'Let's Go Crazy', packs the theater back home, yet the big-city talent scout in the stalls leaves before the second half.

Which band recorded 'Your Song Saved My Life', the original song written for Sing 2?

U2 built the song, which plays over the end credits, on piano and strings with hardly a guitar to be heard.

Who composed the score for the first two Sing films?

Joby Talbot had already scored Garth Jennings's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Son of Rambow, so the director brought his regular composer along to the animal kingdom.

Which actress voices Ash, the rock guitarist of Buster's troupe, in Sing 2?

Scarlett Johansson sings Ash's numbers herself, as she did in the first film, and kids voted the performance their favorite animated voice of the year at the 2022 Kids' Choice Awards.

How do Buster and his troupe get past the front desk of Crystal Entertainment in Sing 2?

Disguised as janitors, they roll past the receptionist on a floor polisher, with Meena at the wheel in overalls and a brush for a moustache, then mop their way into the audition room.

Which film was 2021's second-biggest animated hit, after Sing 2?

Encanto went to Disney+ after only a month in cinemas and finished far short of the $408 million that made Sing 2 the top animated film of 2021.

Which film kept Sing 2 in second place on its Christmas 2021 opening weekend?

Spider-Man: No Way Home, in its second weekend, took more than three times as much, yet Sing 2 beat two other big new releases, The Matrix Resurrections and The King's Man.

Which pop hit does Rosita sing during the space musical in Sing 2's finale?

Break Free comes with a rescue: when Jimmy throws Buster from a catwalk in mid-show, Rosita leaps out on her wire, catches him and picks the song back up in time with the music.

Sing 2 was the first animated film since which 2019 hit to earn $100 million at the US box office?

Frozen II had done it in late 2019, months before the pandemic emptied cinemas of families; no animated film managed it again until Sing 2 passed the mark in its third weekend.

Which cast member won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for Sing 2?

Letitia Wright won as the street dancer who takes over Johnny's dance lessons and leaves town as one of the troupe, beating her castmate Eric André, nominated in the same category.

What news halts Buster's departing bus at the end of Sing 2?

A theater wants their show: the Majestic has phoned the very talent scout who walked out on them at the start of the film, and she stops the bus to tell them the musical has a home.

Why does Jimmy Crystal's daughter storm out of rehearsals in Sing 2?

She thinks Buster has fired her when he only offers to swap her part, and once the 'firing' reaches the TV news her father hauls Buster in and dangles him over the edge of his tower.

Which actress voices Rosita, the troupe's harried mother of 25, in Sing 2?

Reese Witherspoon came with singing credentials: she learned to sing and play the autoharp for Walk the Line, the role that won her the Oscar, and she performs Rosita's numbers herself.

Which Sing 2 star's young daughter voices one of Rosita's piglets?

Matthew McConaughey told Jimmy Fallon that his daughter Vida, then 11, got a couple of lines as a piglet scuba diving in chocolate who declares it the best day of her life.

In the first Sing film, what was the name of the city where Buster's theater stood?

Calatonia gets papered with Buster's misprinted flyers when an office fan blows the whole stack out of the window, and by morning a long line of hopefuls is waiting outside the theater.

Which Michael Jackson music video inspired the 2024 Netflix short that reunited Buster Moon's troupe?

Thriller fits the plot: the troupe turns up at Clay Calloway's Halloween party to find that a mysterious ooze has turned the old rocker and his guests into dancing monsters.

In Sing (2016), what prize does Buster Moon intend to offer before a typo inflates it?

$1,000 is the prize Buster dictates, but his assistant's glass eye pops out onto her keyboard and adds two zeros, and the $100,000 flyers blow out of the window before anyone reads them.

What does Rosita build to mind her 25 children?

A machine: in the first film she builds it overnight when no sitter will take on 25 children, and it runs the mornings so smoothly that for days her husband does not notice she has gone.

Which street-musician mouse cheats a group of bears at cards in the first Sing film?

Mike wins big by cheating, but the bears track him to the theater to get their money back, and their swing at Buster's prize chest ends with the glass stage shattered and the building flooded.

What kind of animal is Judith, the banker who threatens to repossess Buster's theater in the first Sing film?

A llama from the bank, she seizes the lot once the flooded theater has collapsed, then turns up to shut down the outdoor comeback show and fails.

In the first Sing film, Buster rebuilds his stage as a glass tank lit by what?

Luminescent squids light the water-filled stage for exactly one preview: the glass gives way under a baseball bat and the weight of the whole cast, and the flood brings the theater down.

Which duo recorded 'Faith', the Golden Globe-nominated original song from the first Sing film?

Stevie Wonder and Ariana Grande's single was brand new, in a jukebox film that licensed some 65 existing songs, but the Golden Globe went to 'City of Stars' from La La Land.

Which Elton John hit does Johnny perform at the piano in the first Sing film's finale?

I'm Still Standing was Taron Egerton's own vocal, and three years later he sang it on screen again, this time playing Elton John himself in Rocketman.

How does Buster Moon earn a living after his theater collapses in the first Sing film?

Washing cars, with himself as the sponge: Buster and his friend Eddie strip down to swimming trunks, and Buster scrubs each car by sliding across it while Eddie buffs the glass.

What keeps Meena from singing at her audition in the first Sing film?

Stage fright silences the best voice in the building, so she takes a job as Buster's stagehand instead, and only sings for an audience once the theater itself has fallen down.

Which Sinatra standard does the street-musician mouse sing in the first Sing film's finale?

My Way, sung by Seth MacFarlane himself, goes out live on television, which is how the bears he cheated at cards spot him and set off for the theater.

The Sing films were animated in which European capital, home to Illumination's animators?

Paris is where Illumination's animators work, an ocean away from the company's Santa Monica headquarters, and the two offices have always traded footage and notes over video links.

Which Taylor Swift hit does Rosita perform with her dance partner in the first Sing film's finale?

Shake It Off wins over the one viewer who never noticed her: her husband, who barely registers her at home, rushes the stage and sweeps her off her feet with a kiss.

Which song does Meena sing alone in the ruins of the theater in the first Sing film?

Hallelujah carries across the street to a defeated Buster, who climbs the rubble, finds her singing along to her headphones, and decides to stage one more show on the spot.

Which Absolutely Fabulous star voices Nana Noodleman, the retired theater star, in the first Sing film?

Jennifer Saunders plays the grand old diva, but in the flashback to Nana's glory days the voice soaring through the Beatles' 'Golden Slumbers' belongs to Jennifer Hudson.

In the first Sing film, what is Johnny's job on the heist that lands his father in jail?

Getaway driver, and he leaves his post: he slips off to rehearsal, gets stuck in traffic on the way back, and Big Daddy and his crew are caught while waiting for their ride.

What kind of animal is the harsh choreographer hired to teach Johnny to dance in Sing 2?

A proboscis monkey, he takes another dancer's place in the finale to show Johnny up in their staged duel, loses in front of the whole audience, and ends by bowing to him.

Which song does Johnny sing at the piano in the finale show of Sing 2?

A Sky Full of Stars opens with Johnny alone at a piano and builds into the stick-fighting dance duel he had spent the whole film struggling to learn.