Review of Pitch Perfect (2012) by Briana C — 01 Nov 2016

Pitch perfect was a fun, light hearted movie that I enjoyed, and is most definitely a good movie.

Some people have commented that Pitch Perfect depicts a middle school girl's idea of what college is like and I totally agree. When I first watched the movie in 2012, I was a lot closer to that age and enjoyed the movie a lot more because of it. Now being in college and rewatching it, I definitely had mixed feelings about it. It is a flamboyantly weird movie that depicts little to none of the actual academic part of college.

What I did enjoy about the movie was its embrace of strong female figures. Although presented as the antagonist of Beca early on, I almost admired Aubrey's drive to achieve perfection. I loved how the film embraces its really 'weird' characters like Lilly and Benji. That in itself was a good social commentary in the film; that people can be different and odd and that's okay.

As far as this being classified as a 'good' movie, I believe it is. The way the director handled the allusion/theme of The Breakfast Club throughout the movie was nicely done. It was apparent when Beca cried after watching the film that her character had finally arched and she found that it was okay to understand and empathize with people even if they were different than her.