Illumination double time as we now do Sing.

In animal world, Buster Moon runs the theatre he always dreamed of running, but many years of poor performances, building falling into disrepair and spiralling debts has led to it's near ruin until a last chance idea of running a singing contest tries to rebuild it's once glorious popularity with a promise of a cash prize for the winner.
The singers Buster plans to use are as follows.
Rosita: Over worked mother who gave up teenage dreams of stardom to become a housewife to 25 piglets.
Mike: An aspiring musician with a jerkish attitude to back up his talent, who often acts bigger than he looks.
Ash: An aspiring rock star in a difficult relationship.
Johnny: A teen caught up in his dad's crimes as a getaway driver.
Meena: The obvious too nervous to sing best singer of the group.
and we can't forget Gunter the overly flamboyant dancer in Rosita's performance.
While trying to setup it becomes more and more obvious that Buster Moon is playing with fire as a series of events leads to the theatre getting more and more ruined and the promise of prize money looking more like a pipe dream, even the singers start getting into trouble as Meena fails the audition, Johnny's dad and gang get thrown in jail, Ash breaks up with her boyfriend, Rosita feels out of her league working with Gunter and Mike gets into trouble with local mobsters which actually leads to the theatre being demolished.
On the verge of giving up and returning to his father's past time as a car washer, Buster Moon receives some inspiration from Meena and decides to have one last crack at it leading to the final concert.
Against Secret Life of Pets this is a much better showing of Illumination's abilities and turned a cheesy concept into a half decent movie, the characters are all likeable and Buster Moon while looking like a character desperately clutching at straws actually offers good advice to his singers which pays off massively when they all perform, there's no mean spirits about what he's trying to do either and he accepts it hard when it all comes crashing down, boundless optimism can kill a movie if done wrong but this is done well enough to use it as it's main strength and the pay off is sooo worth it at the brilliant concert at the end.
More films like Sing and less like Secret Life of Pets please Illumination.