Movie Review
Review Pitch Perfect 2
The college acapella group the "Barden Bellas" are riding high following their national championship win in the first film. They are performing to POTUS and the first lady when tragedy strikes in the form of a wardrobe malfunction of the worst kind by Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson). As a result of "Muffgate", the Bellas are personae non gratae on the singing circuit, and their only way back is to win the worldwide championships in Copenhagen – something no American group has ever done because "they all hate us". Besides anything else, standing in their way is the brilliant but bombastic Das Sound Machine whose militaristic take on Acapella makes them formidable opponents. And priorities for Beca (Anna Kendrick) are elsewhere as she is trying to impress her way into the music business as an intern for a professional recording studio.
Pitch Perfect 2 was just really, really disappointing.....not smart, not funny, not cute, not edgy and the music was not memorable.....not like the first.
The sad thing is there was hope for just a moment then you knew this movie lacked intelligent story and was pandering to us thru the 'FAT GIRL ONE LINERS' Rebel Wilson seems to force out. All of the Bellas act 'UN-Bella' like and you can even hear what Lilly actually says (I liked it better when I couldn't).
Pitch Perfect 2 lacked quality and originality of music, set, dance, costume, photography, directing and creativity for the entire show. I didn't care about these characters because it was obvious they didn't either. Costumes looked like Fredrick's of Hollywood knock offs!
4 of the 8 main Bellas were completely one dimensional and static characters. What makes it worse, despite Fat Amy proudly championing how ethnically diverse their 5/8 Caucasian group was, the non-flat half of the group were all white.The other half of the characters could all be summed up in less than 5 words: pretty and promiscuous, weird and creepy, black butch lesbian, Hispanic from dangerous country. This is something I noticed early on in the film. I asked myself if any of these 4 characters would show a personality outside of these one-note traits. The only bits of dialogue from them that didn't fit neatly into the single trait characterization was filler exposition like "Why are we here again?" or "Who is that over there?" which could be said by any character.
What was good? The Germans were good, just because DSM had the best songs and solid performances. The Bellas didn't wow me at all. I just didn't like the original song, 'you're my flashlight to get me through the night'? Nope.
Anyway do you I recommend it? The answer is well up to you cause I don't know there is ups and downs in the movie.
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