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- Why is a cow just standing there when Ash asks Rick (her crocodile manager) why he is paying her half of what other guys get at a club she performed? Rick also looks at the cow when talking to Ash. Is he attracted to the cow or is it just further emphasizing how Rick has disdain towards women? Also, the cow looks very uncomfortable; so why doesn’t she move away from him?
I have so many questions about this.- I think you might be reading a bit too much into this, at least as far as his views on women go. He might be attracted to the cow, but since we don't actually know who any of the other acts are, assuming he has a disdain for women as opposed to just Ash is stretching evidence to the breaking point. Notice that Ash apparently knows what everyone else is making (though I'm curious as to how she came to know that) yet doesn't suggest that her getting shortchanged is because she's a girl, indicating that there are other female and/or mixed acts. This also seems to be an issue that has just come up, meaning that Ash either hasn't been working there for long enough to have been paid before or this is her first event big enough that she can compare herself to acts that are apparently getting paid twice what she is. So, basically, yes Rick is an overconfident jerk that thinks he can shortchange someone because there are few options, and him not paying that much attention to Ash is supposed to indicate that he thinks he holds all the cards and thus can push Ash around.
- How much time has passed between Sing 2 and the first movie?
- I wanna say at least over a year, taking into consideration the time it took to rebuild the theatre.
- It might be an over analyzation, but in the first movie, Johnny and Meena both lived with their parents, so they were probably around fifteen to seventeen. In the second movie, Johnny and Meena can both go on a cross-country road trip without any mention of their parents, so I would guess they are around eighteen or older, possibly in their twenties. Rosita's piglets don't seem to have grown-up that much, or at all, but they could have been age five, and are presently age seven or eight: still young and immature. Seeing as the theatre has been rebuilt and has consistently been putting on plays to gain a good local reputation, I would guess the movie takes place three or four years later. This would also roughly fit in with the release schedule. The first movie came out in 2016, the second was supposed to come out in 2020, but was delayed.
- I’d argue Johnny was already over 18 in the first film, since Vague Age brings up that when his dad went to jail there was no mention of social services or child protective services. You can still live with a parent(s) and be over 18. Also apparently in the first film there was an image of Meena wearing a cap and gown so I guess she had graduated high school unless that was for middle school or something.
- That is a good question. Rebuilding Buster Moon's theater at the end of the first movie would have taken a while, even with all of Nana Noodleman's money (and the usual liberties of a cartoon universe) speeding up the process. It also looks like our main characters have been putting on shows at the theater for a couple of months by the time we rejoin them in the sequel, long enough for them to get good reviews in the newspapers and attract the attention of a theater scout. But the fact that Norman and Rosita's children have barely grown at all implies that the Time Skip between the two movies is not that large. So a pretty plausible range would be twelve to sixteen months since Moon Theater flooded: "Sing" takes place in spring 2016 while "Sing 2" takes place in summer 2017.
- The Moon Theatre presents an Alice in Wonderland play at the beginning of the film, starring Meena as Alice, Rosita as the Cheshire Cat, Gunter as the Caterpillar and Johnny as the Mad Hatter. Shouldn't the castings of Rosita and Gunter cause an in-universe Questionable Casting case due to them wearing cat and caterpillar costumes? There are surely cat and caterpillar actors in the city (okay, the first film doesn't show caterpillars, but does show cats), but the theatre instead opts to have Rosita and Gunter, two pigs, play the roles. Couldn't this be an equivalent to Blackface in the Sing world?
- To be fair, cross-racial casting is not uncommon in theatre in our human world; it stands to reason it could be similar in the Sing world.
- When Jimmy Crystal contacts Clay Calloway's lawyer and accidentally exposes that Buster is putting together an expensive show using the name and likeness of a rock superstar without said star's knowledge or permission, why didn't Crystal Entertainment get hit with a cease and desist?
- They might have been. Jimmy Crystal didn't want the show to go on. Buster went behind his back to do it. Jimmy didn't see the need to go into the legal context of Buster's wrong doing when he was trying to throw Buster off a roof.
- Jimmy was willing to let the show go on at this point, he even said “If my daughter wasn’t in your show…” He only wanted to stop the show later.
- Why do Buster and everyone else insist that Porsha wasn't fired when she was indeed fired? Yeah, Porsha was asked to swap roles with Rosita, but this doesn't change the fact that Buster was firing her from the lead role so he could give it back to Rosita.
- It seems the way Porsha took it was that she was fired completely from the show, not just getting demoted.
- Buster is usually good at reading people and telling them things in a way that flatters them. He should have caught on to Porsha's self-centeredness very quickly, so why did he not frame the role change to her as "You know, I know you're enjoying the astronaut role, but Rosita just isn't working in the alien role; you have the talent I need to really bring out the importance of the alien, so I am removing Rosita and I need you to bring the alien to life for us"?
- Buster is also impulsive, isn't always the most sensitive koala, and isn't perfect under stress. It's not like we haven't seen him do silly things in the first movie either.
- Why was Jimmy still so eager to kill Buster once he found out that Out of This World not only had Clay Calloway on board, but his daughter in a prominent role? His Villainous Breakdown was sparked by him finding out Buster lied about knowing the former and coming to believe he'd fired the latter, so you'd think seeing those two problems assuaged would make him content to let the show go on and try and take undue credit afterwards.
- If you recall how he talks to Buster, Jimmy said it was because he'd humiliated him, referring to the talk show talking about how 'Jimmy Crystal fired his own daughter'. Jimmy obviously has a thing of wanting to seem like the strongest, most competent person, so a story about his own offspring not being as good as he is AND him firing his own child callously does not reflect good on him.
- During the show, why is Meena allowed to break character to talk to Alfonso? Yeah, his presence helped her to kiss Darius and not ruin the performance, but it's out of place to talk to people while in the middle of the performance. Doesn't it ruin the show?
- Either the audience was too busy applauding Darius and Meena's performance to notice, or they noticed, but were having so much fun with the show that they didn't give it a second thought.
- Also, they did the performance for free if I remember correctly. What would the audience do, ask for their money back? It probably seen as just a fun performance so everyone just sort of went with it.
- What happened to Ruby Calloway? I noticed in picture of her and Clay at a party while she was in a wheelchair.
- How did Jimmy Crystal think that trying to take credit for Out of This World would work? He'd just appeared on a talk show blasting the Moon theater group as a bunch of talentless amateurs who didn't belong in his theater and he couldn't have possibly thought Moon or any of his performers would back up his lie after his attempt to drop Buster to his death. For that matter, how did the talk show host come to believe Jimmy was behind the Out of This World show when it was her show he was on when he was doing all that badmouthing?
- Crystal has an ego the size of the moon and evidently believes he can make everything go his way using threats or financial coercion.
- Also, honestly, the talk show host didn't appear to be the brightest.
- Damage Control. Crystal is all about protecting his ego and image. He's not going to admit to a theater full of people that the guys he fired illegally seized his theater and set up several traps to stop him from interfering, including recruiting ex-cons to assault him and his bodyguards and trapping him under the stage. It was better for his image to pretend that he was in on it all along. As for why he thought they'd go along with it - there may have been a level of mutually assured destruction, at least from Crystal's understanding, because what Buster and his friends did was definitely illegal (even if Crystal was the only one that got arrested).
- The host might have believed it to be a publicity stunt in good faith. Crystal blasting Moon on tv to create a small-city underdog so that the grand opening would be a surprise story and have a comeback feeling is weird, but it is less implausible to imagine than Moon somehow managing to get the whole production going under Crystal's nose anyway, so she probably took that (and the presence of Porsha led her to believe that Crystal was in on it). She also was tight on time, she wanted to be first one reporting, so she jumped at the story. As for Crystal himself, as said above it was a desperate attempt to try and salvage his reputation, likely believing Moon would have played along not to reveal he had done everything illegally, plus he didn't really have a choice, he couldn't admit to having been made a fool of, so the only chance was to play along and hope for the best.
- I might have missed something, but what was Crystal arrested for? To clarify, I'm not questioning the actions, I'm questioning the evidence, he seemed to have only sycophants around when he tried to outright murder Moon, except for Moon himself who doesn't appear to be the one who called the cops, so how did they manage to get him?
- So what happens to Crystal Entertainment now that its former head has been arrested for attempted murder and his daughter has joined the Moon Theatre Troupe?
- A new CEO would likely step up, one with a completely different attitude. In regards to Porsha, I never got the impression that she was going to inherit Crystal Entertainment.
