I’m pretty sure the success of Glee
is the reason this movie got made. Having seen exactly 2 episodes of
Glee, but an entire season of The Sing Off I figured I would give
this movie a try. Worse case scenario I'd have new songs to add to
one of my playlists on Spotify.
Pitch Perfect tries to grab you from
the gate with the College a cappella championships where 2 teams from
the same school are competing, sure its all singing and dancing but
then they totally throw in a vomit comet you don't see coming and yes
its pretty gross. Cut forward to the 1st day of school at
Barden University where we get to meet Beca (Anna Kendrick) incoming
freshman, who wants to be a music producer and move to LA but her dad
is a professor at Barden and so she has to go. The two a capella
groups are there with all the other clubs, the Bellas led by Aubrey
and Chloe (Brittany Snow) after the fiasco at last years championship
can't convince anyone to try out. They are old-school, tired and
look just like they walked out of a Mad Men episode, the Treblemakers
on the other had have their pick and are approached by Jeese (Sklyar
Astin) who wants to score movies when he gets out of college and
Benji who has an insane level of fandom for Star Wars and magic, both
can sing but of course Bumper, the leader isn't going to want the
weird kid.
The movie truly doesn't get going till
we meet Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) every screen she's in is comedy gold,
I was in tears with the sandwich screen, but she is clearly the main
reason to even want to see this movie. The singing is good as to be
expected, the audition where everyone sings Since You've Been Gone,
the scene with the riff-off where all the a capella teams have a
round robin sing-off based on the given category unless they get
clapped out was very enjoyable. The only other times you really will
enjoy are during the competitions, the announcer team of John (John
Michael Higgins) and Gail (Elizabeth Banks) keep up the smiles while
trading the insults. Its a total win just with their banter.
I give this movie a Redbox. Its
entertaining, its catchy but its not amazing. I enjoyed myself but
all I can think about is what will Fat Amy do next while the rest of
the movie was cute as much as I like potty humor the barf jokes were
way unnecessary. I’m just as content to follow the movie's Tumblrpage which is more entertaining.
Pitch Perfect is Rated PG-13.
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