Neither seem to have any idea if their arc is supposed to be funny or not, nor do I. (Granted, this most recent film is far less egregious than the second installment.) Even still, that not-at-all-cohesive crew is much easier to root for than Beca herself, and Pitch Perfect 3 struggles most when it tries to make us care about her music career, and it tries a lot.Įven more curious is the material given to Rebel Wilson’s Fat Amy, who had become a full-on caricature in the last film and now is being asked to carry a long-lost-dad plot opposite John Lithgow. (Beca’s into real music, like David Guetta.) The movie makes you warm up to the squeaky-clean arrangements and improbable riff-offs alongside Beca, who inevitably realizes that the Bellas are indeed her tribe.īut once the question of whether or not Beca is a Bella is resolved, what are we left with? A still-kind-of-snotty Kendrick, whose unfortunate defining characteristic is her standoffishness, and the rest of the Bellas, who, aside from (the very good) Brittany Snow’s hapless try-hard Chloe, are nothing but a canvas on which to throw any gay and/or fat and/or Asian jokes that come to the writers’ minds. Our surrogate was not any of the existing aca-alphas or a striving wannabe Bella, but a surly skeptic who thought she was too good for all that harmonizing and sisterhood. The first Pitch Perfect movie worked because it was essentially a sports movie that had a sense of humor about its game - it realized how ridiculous so many aspects of competitive a cappella are, but also let the characters create a little magic with their supremely dorky art. (Whatever Universal paid their punch-up writers, it was too much.) Their competition is fierce: among them, an all-girl rock band called Evermoist and a DJ that goes by the stage moniker DragonNuts. Competing against bands with instruments for the first time, the group must defend their musical legitimacy. Sick of her talents going to waste, she quits her job, then joins the Bellas on a USO/reunion tour (!) that’s also a battle of the bands (!!) where the prize is a record deal with DJ Khaled (!!!). This means we’re treated to an early “ain’t rap a goof?” scene in which a Riff Raff type takes umbrage over Beca “improving” his track with her Bath & Body Works production sensibilities. Unfortunately, I couldn’t have been more wrong: Pitch Perfect 3 finds the original Bellas adrift post-college, and our central protagonist Beca (Anna Kendrick) struggling with the realities of her dream career as a music producer. At least this series doesn’t still think it’s about being a musician, I thought. When Pitch Perfect 3, the supposed final installation of the series, opens on the latter, I breathed a sigh of relief. If the primary point of these films has been to produce sparkling autotuned a cappella renditions of some of the most relevant pop songs of the day, then I don’t really care if the Barden Bellas are singing at regionals or the Coachella main stage or an evil billionaire’s yacht in the French Riviera. 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.You are not going to find me complaining that the Pitch Perfect films have officially gone to cuckoo land. 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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