![]() Thankfully, the comedy is still strong with this one. The performances, if they aren’t songs that had already been engraved in your head in 2016 (Cheap Thrills, Cake By The Ocean), float by in a quick montage. ![]() If anything, the only few parts where the film slightly saves itself is through the classic riff-off scene which gets behind you in the first 15 minutes of the film. ![]() She may have been the lead in the previous two parts, but here, she is lost in the crowd, found only at the very last song.īrittany Snow is still delightfully pathetic, just the way we like her, Anna Camp is still hopelessly miserable in her control-freak ways, Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins are still at it, giving lessons in your everyday sexism while practising it themselves. As if she knew the film would make money whether or not she gave it her all, she didn’t. It has always been easy to love her, despite her snobby better-than-you-nerds attitude, but this time, she fails to make a dent. ![]() More time for Rebel meant little time for Anna Kendrick. She wonders if the soldiers would visit more ‘bases’ with her, suggests ‘Nevermoist’ as the perfect band name for grannies, tells Hailee Steinfeld to shut up in a number of creative ways. Of course, Rebel does her bit well enough but her best punches still land only in the awkward humour propelled by her confident self. The storyline, added only to stretch out Rebel as much as they could, lets her use sausage nunchucks on thugs, emerging as the heroine who saves her girls. John Lithgow plays a cuddly, singing mobster father to Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) and drives a yacht all over Winston Churchill’s grave for a quick, easy buck. The challenge, in itself, should have been enough for Pitch Perfect 3 but another, more time-consuming storyline is added to the mix: Daddy issues. The bands are armed and loaded with guitars, drums and mix tables and the Bellas still only have their ‘mouth music’. And by what could not have seriously been the first idea to come up in the writers’ room, they decide to perform for the US troops and tour with DJ Khaled so he could choose one of the four music groups to open for him at concerts.Īt the tour, they meet the other three groups and their worst enemy: instruments. (when is it really, for anyone?!!) They are stuck tolerating bad singers, pretending to be dead singers, prodding cow guts and killing fake people in their flight tests.Ī Bellas reunion is what they need to feel important again. Life after college has not been the perfect dream for Beca (Anna Kendrick) or the rest of the Barden Bellas. What should have been the perfect send off to the singing dorks we fell in love with six years ago, ends up being a hodge podge of needlessly added action sequences and an inconsequentially extrapolated secondary character’s backstory. We don't have to wait long to see what they bring to the table since Pitch Perfect 3 is slated to arrive on December 22 this year.With the third part, the franchise scrapes the very bottom of the barrel only to land on a ridiculous story and a half a motivation to make it. We know all the Bellas will be back (though we haven't heard anything about the Treblemakers yet), and this time Ruby Rose and rapper Trinidad James will be joining the cast too. Hopefully this means the a capella performance side of the Bellas will offer more than the lackluster stage presence they had in Pitch Perfect 2, when they were showed up by everything Das Sound Machine had to offer.Īs someone who adored the first Pitch Perfect and came away supremely disappointed in Pitch Perfect 2, I'm really hoping that whatever Kay Cannon and Trish Sie came up with for this sequel gets the franchise back on track. Though we do know that School of Rock writer Mike White wrote the most recent draft.ĭirecting this time will be Trish Sie, who has some solid experience directing Step Up: All In, not to mention the instantly viral music videos for the songs "Here It Goes Again" and "Upside Down & Inside Out" by the band OK Go. Though the cast has been getting together for rehearsals and production begins soon, we know noting about the story that franchise writer Kay Cannon has come up with this time. Actually, pretty much everything about Pitch Perfect 3 is being kept under wraps right now.
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