![]() ![]() However, the film brought out some famous faces like Ruby Rose, who plays Calamity, a fierce lead singer, and DJ Khaled, who plays himself and who’s opening act the Bellas are competing for. Pitch Perfect 3 retained familiar faces such as Fat Amy, Beca and Chloe, but to many fans’ disappointment, Jesse and Beca’s relationship did not make it to this outing. Throughout the two movies, the Bellas developed new friendships, sparked romantic relationships, humiliated themselves and A capella-ed their hearts out in over the top flashy (quite literally Fat Amy) performances to go on to win three championships in a row There, Beca met the likes of hilarious Fat Amy ( Rebel Wilson) and Chloe Beale ( Brittany Snow) and began a relationship with Jesse Swanson ( Skylar Austin) a member of another A capella group at Barden University, The Treblemakers. Pitch Perfect 1 and 2 followed the loveable Beca ( Anna Kendrick) as she joined The Barden Bellas, an all-female A capella group at Barden University. Thankfully, Pitch Perfect 3 didn’t disappoint, with the final instalment delivering a better-than-expected last call featuring riff offs, one liners and catchy tunes by The Barden Bellas that provoked constant howls of laughter from the audience. It certainly shouldn’t be anyone’s starting point for these films, and it definitely doesn’t hold a candle to the fully fleshed out films that came before it, but as far as blatant encore franchise exercises are concerned, this is more a flat note than a wrong one.For Pitch Perfect fans out there, the hype was real for another followup to the popular franchise starring the all-female musical ensemble the Barden Bellas. ![]() Sure, the jokes don’t hit as hard as they once did, nor are the situations the cast find themselves in particularly inspired beyond how much they jump the shark, but the experience is breezy and light enough that it isn’t going to leave the diehard fans entirely disappointed.Īnd really, if all you’re here to see is some good a cappella performance and one last farewell from the characters you love, Pitch Perfect 3 is adequate. Not every character is afforded an arc-at least not in more than passing dialogue reference-but Brittany Snow, Hailee Steinfeld, Ester Dean, Chrissie Fit, and Hana Mae Lee feel like they never stopped playing their respective Bellas, and their comic delivery does a lot to save the film from being a total chore. That might be a shame considering how consistently her laugh lines land, and it acts as a stark contrast to Anna Kendrick, who has already moved on to bigger things and is practically sleepwalking through her performance toward what I’m sure was a very large paycheck being dangled just out of frame.Įven so, the film largely supports itself on the charisma of a cast well-accustomed to their characters, Kendrick notwithstanding. At times it wants to be about legitimizing a cappella singing in contrast to instrumented bands, at others it wants to be about getting the gang back together for one last hurrah, and still others it wants to be a bizarre action parody starring Rebel Wilson, who is still giving her all to a franchise that might be her only claim to fame. This hodge-podge of storylines functions as less of a fully realized sequel than a combination of rehashed ideas and several new ones, providing neither a thematic throughline for the film or a coherent arc for the characters to communally follow. The tour also turns out to be a competition with instrumented bands to gain the attention of a famous DJ looking to sign a new artist, so the Bellas try one last shot at cooperative stardom. With the group reunited, they decide to go on one last tour as part of a USO show Aubrey’s ( Anna Camp) military father organized. After telling her roommate Fat Amy ( Rebel Wilson), the two suddenly remember that a Bellas reunion is going on that evening. We return to Beca ( Anna Kendrick) right as she quits her job as a music producer, citing creative differences with the idiot musicians she butts heads with. Sequels usually require a creative reason for existing to coincide with the financial realities of revisiting a popular story or cast, but the unfortunate fact of Pitch Perfect 3 is that it seemingly has no aspirations beyond cashing in on the success of the previous installments. Picking up on the lives of the Bellas in the years after their college stardom, this entry attempts to build a plot around nostalgia for times long past that just aren’t that long ago, which isn’t so much a criticism of quality as it is a question of motivation. Pitch Perfect 3 feels like the sort of sequel we might have expected from this franchise in ten years rather than a mere two years after the last installment.
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