Review of Pitch Perfect (2012) by Zachary M — 18 Aug 2016

Let's get this right out of the way, most of this movie is just fine. The acting is fine, the music is good, and the comedy while hit and miss (mostly miss for me) is still okay. However, I have one huge problem with the movie, its main character.

I hated Anna Kendrick's character in this film. It's not bad acting, it has everything to do with the writing of the character. Entitled, whinny, angry for no reason, and up stuck as all get out. If you're given a free college education, free from debt, and given such great opportunities and you shit on them because it's not "your thing" then fuck you. It's one thing to make you dislike a main character and then have them go through growth and development, but I was so filled with disgust for this character that nothing that could have happened would have saved it for me. Petty, maybe, but I dare you to watch this and not feel the same about this whiny brat afterwards.