Sing 2 (2021)
Where will your dreams take you?
Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, he and his singers must sneak into the Crystal Entertainment offices, run by the ruthless wolf mogul Jimmy Crystal, where the gang pitches the ridiculous idea of casting the lion rock legend Clay Calloway in their show. Buster must embark on a quest to find the now-isolated Clay and persuade him to return to the stage.
In Sing 2, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic theater world”. The story fights on E8/E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing entertainment, ambition, creativity, exploitation, dreams.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Dumbo (1941)consciousness in animals · circus animal society
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)consciousness in animals · chipmunk pop industry
Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005)consciousness in animals · cartoon race show
Okja (2017)consciousness in animals · genetically‑engineered super‑pig industry
The One and Only Ivan (2020)consciousness in animals · mall circus
Shark: The Beginning (2021)consciousness in animals · reef metropolisSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)consciousness in aliens · ambition, exploitation
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)consciousness in monsters · ambition, exploitation
Xanadu (1980)consciousness carried elsewhere · creativity, dreams
The Muppet Movie (1979)consciousness in objects · ambition, exploitation
Minions (2015)consciousness in monsters · exploitation
Venom (2018)consciousness in aliens · exploitation
