Close out the year in movies with Spider-Man, The Matrix, and a slew of Oscar hopefuls – The A.V. Club

Theaters everywhere December 22

Entourage guest star Bono (no last name given) finally grabs the spotlight in Garth Jennings follow-up to his 2016 animated jukebox musical. Voicing a reclusive cartoon lion, the U2 frontman joins Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Nick Kroll, Taron Egerton, and more celebrities than you could ever hope to hear semi-belt their way through recycled versions of Coldplay, Ariana Grande, and, yes, U2 songs. For the sequel, Jennings has apparently added a few more actual singers to the mixHalsey and Pharrell Williams are both on tapas well as a plot that sees Johanssons punk-rock porcupine attempt to convince the Bono-lion to come out of retirement in order to appease a sinister lupine music exec (Bobby Cannavale, in what may or may not be the most improbable Vinyl callback ever.) All of those words were in English, we swear.

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