Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) by Dtl — 29 May 2015

Not a good movie. The jokes were flat, the songs mostly mediocre, the drama forced. Maybe I was missing something because I didn't watch the first one, but as a stand alone movie, it wasn't good. For reference, I have heard several of the songs from the first movie, and they were mostly considerably better. That is why I was interested in the first place. (That and Anna Kendrick is very pretty, with a good singing voice.).

I found myself only enjoying the movie at all when Emily (Hailee Steinfeld) was on screen. She is a very talented actress, and a competent, though not the greatest, singer. I loved her. I was just about done with the movie when she first showed up, and that didn't even take very long to arrive. Once she did show up, I couldn't leave.

Still there were moments (even ones Steinfeld wasn't in) that worked. I sat there until the end, and didn't totally hate those two hours. I would not recommend this movie to anyone, but I'm not shocked there are a large number of people who like it. I might rate this a couple points higher if the first few minutes weren't terrible, because it was hard to shake that initial impression.