Plot Arc Summary for Sing, the Movie

When the computer-animated musical comedy, Sing, came out in 2016, my kids watched it without me. They were 12 and 14 and loved it. Especially my daughter. Once it became available on Netflix, she watched it multiple times before I even saw it once, which is her typical movie-watching habit. 

So needless to say that when I finally got around to watching Sing too, I loved it just as much as she did. I even took notes so I could share the basic plot structure with you!

Summary

A group of talking animals enters a singing competition hosted by a koala who is trying to save his theatre.

 

Characters

This is not a list of all the characters, but it will give you a small idea of what kind of showstopper this is.

BUSTER MOON. The main character is a koala who is trying to save the run-down theatre he inherited from his father.

MISS CRAWLY. Buster's administrative assistant, an elderly iguana with a glass eye.

EDDIE NOODLEMAN. A sheep and Buster's best friend who doubts the future of Buster’s theater.

NANA NOODLEMAN. A sheep and Eddie's grandmother who was a famous singer back in the day.

ROSITA. A pig who gave up her music dreams to become a devoted wife and mother of 25 piglets.

JOHNNY. A teenage gorilla who wants to sing, despite his father grooming him for the family business (the mafia).

MEENA. A teenage elephant with an amazing voice, but she also has severe stage fright.

Plot

THE SIGNUP. Miss Crawley writes up the announcement for the singing competition and her glass eye pops out of her head and lands on the typewriter, adding two extra zeros to the amount of prize money up for grabs.

Without this plot point, there would be no story.

THE GUNSHOT. Mr. Moon (Buster) tells the cast members to get a good night’s rest, despite now knowing the error about the prize money amount.

Buster is in it for the long haul. He knows the risks and chooses to move forward with his plan.

THE HALFWAY POINT. Mr. Moon fixes up the theatre to make it awesome for Nana Noodeman, in an effort to gain her support and endorsement.

Buster makes progress, but then he hits “the wall.”

THE WALL. When the theatre floods, it completely collapses. The bank takes over the property. Buster moves in with his friend, Eddie, who is living in his parents’ pool house. All the characters are at an all-time low. 

Mr. Moon sees no way of saving his ruined theatre and accepts the fact that his life’s dreams are crushed forever. But wait...

THE FINISH LINE. Mina the elephant sings the finale at the newly refurbished open air theatre and the performance is packed.

Clearly, these are just the highlights. There’s a LOT of action that happens to get to each of these plot points. But seeing the structure in this story can help you pinpoint the five main plot points in your own stories. 

If you liked this post, you’ll also enjoy the other summaries in the Plot Arc Library. 

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