Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) by Wornoutspines — 24 May 2015

Same recipe, a big mess is made at the beginning and then it's the road to redemption. Pitch Perfect 2 is not as subtle as the first one, I mean pretty much everything was heightened, Rebel Wilson had more jokes, the weird characters are even weirder. The film was so so weird, at one point I was asking myself if I outgrew Pitch Perfect. Seriously I couldn't believe what I was seeing because it was quite a step down from the first one, which I still like.

I find a few things to like in the movie, Anna Kendrick's storyline was quite interesting, it was actually one of the few that showed some sort of evolution of her character. The others were basically a spoof version of themselves - that's saying a lot because Pitch Perfect 2 is a comedy after all. The music was catchy, really OK for the most part, and the battle scene was arguably the best one in the movie, more so than the finale performance. The finale was kinda sweet but that's all it was.

Anyway the movie was a bit of a mess, funny at times but a disappointment for me, it barely gets a passing grade.