TORONTO – Sometimes you just can’t hate a movie. It may annoy you. It may make your eye rolls a bit, but eventually you just succumb to the sheer entertainment of it all. That’s the case with Garth Jennings’ “Sing” which had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival Sunday afternoon.

The Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment production is Jennings’ first animated feature after critical and cult favorites “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Son of Rambow.” His strong eye serves him well here as he purposefully has the camera zig and zag around the animated landscape of a San Diego-like city filled with talking and walking animals (“Zootopia” who?) and throws in a slew of creative visual ideas you don’t expect here and there (many of which should simply not be spoiled).

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