I was also not keen on the way both films had the lesbian character constantly scamming on her friends. Sex jokes often come with a nice side of slut-shaming, and while I think you could talk about that with teens, my experience with the pre-puberty set is that they have trouble with the nuances of having a healthy sexuality. She'd just get the sterotypes out of the situation. But I know that this would just go right over my 10 year-old's head. It's meant to call attention to the Princess-y character's constant over dramatization of her first world problems. The new hispanic Bella is constantly making sarcastic quips about life as an immigrant. Some of the humour is just too subtle for the tween crowd. But these themes are more hidden than in the first film. There are some good messages about learning to trust your friends, and perserverance. But we're all enjoying the soundtrack, which is pretty decent. I ultimately decided "no", for the reasons below. I saw the first one with my friends when it came out (and, admittedly loved it.) My first instinct was to say "no," but I decided to go see Pitch Perfect 2, and think about it a bit more. We don’t know where to focus our attention in the montages, and it always feels like the movie is trying to catch up to the musical performances rather than guiding them.My 10 year old asked to see the Pitch Perfect movies. Banks and editor Craig Alpert can’t find the rhythm of either. But even more frustrating is how Banks handles the montages and singing. In addition to moving between plotlines with no real rhyme or reason, the Bumper/Amy stuff could have been left on the editing room because even though their scenes are good, they don’t further the overall narrative. But since Pitch Perfect 2’s riff-off scene is really good (and features amazing cameos), I don’t really mind that from a storytelling perspective it only reminds us that the Das Sound Machine leaders are really good and really condescending.īanks, unsurprisingly, has a knack for comic timing and character relationships, but her feature debut has a serious editing problem both in terms of the overall narrative and within the musical performances. In Pitch Perfect 2, the riff-off scene exists mostly to top the one in the first movie rather than advance the plot. There’s very little momentum in Pitch Perfect 2, but it’s not so bad since the individual scenes are so entertaining.įor example, the riff-off scene in the original is not only a highlight because the movie does a cappella mash-ups so well, but also it’s significant to the plot because Beca starts to assert her authority, which puts her at odds with Aubrey ( Anna Camp). But they’re all stacked on top of each other, and the film will veer from its main plot to one of the subplots for no particularly reason. Beca’s story gets a great assist from Keegan Michael Key, who plays a music producer Emily’s story is kind of sweet and sets up the importance of finding your own sound and Wilson and Devine are good together. When taken piecemeal, every plotline is fine. Beca ( Anna Kendrick) is hiding her internship at a music production company because she doesn’t want to offend the rest of the group Emily ( Hailee Steinfeld) is a freshman who’s dreamed of following in her mother’s ( Katey Sagal) footsteps and becoming a Bella and Fat Amy and Bumper ( Adam Devine), who now works as a security guard at the college, have struck up a relationship because the filmmakers decided that two of the funniest characters should be paired up. But screenwriter Kay Cannon overstuffs the script with far too many subplots. ![]() It’s a plot we’ve seen before, but it’s good enough to carry the lighthearted story we’d expect from a Pitch Perfect sequel.
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