Post by Doomsday on May 16, 2015 12:58:20 GMT -5
Pitch Perfect 2
I had no interest in seeing the first Pitch Perfect movie. Why would I? It looked like Glee only on the big screen. It was at the very bottom of my list of movies to sit down and watch along with Lady in the Water and Juwanna Man. But then something happened, something that pushed it to the top of the pile; I got a girlfriend. So we sat down and watched Pitch Perfect, or I should say I agreed to watch Pitch Perfect because she had already watched about 200 movies of my choosing. It was only fair. What I found was Pitch Perfect was a really funny, really entertaining movie. I also found that many people I know are also huge fans of the movie, people I never would have expected. Yes, it was a standard, run of the mill storyline but it didn't play solely to the tween female crowd.
Undoubtedly Pitch Perfect 2 came down the line. Trying to make lightning strike twice, the sequel also has to do with the Bellas performing in a musical competition, this time on the national level. The kicker is if they don't win it all, the Bellas will be disbanded due to a mishap involving Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) accidentally flashing the President during a performance which gets them into this win or go home predicament. This puts them at odds with the current champions from Germany who play up pretty much every German cliche you can think of. Predictably you already know the ending before it even begins. Unfortunately what the movie doesn't do is recapture the spirit of the first. The jokes that seemed to flow in the first one seem to be shoehorned into this one and we can't have a Rebel Wilson scene that doesn't mention farting in some sense. One character is in there to remind everyone that she's an illegal immigrant while delivering punchlines that will make the audience more uncomfortable than anything. I do have to give credit for the jokes that do land and for the many times that characters don't end up in the typical pratfalls that you would expect. And a note to the writers and director (Elizabeth Banks helms this one); if you're going to set the movie up for a final competition in Copenhagen, make sure you get to Copenhagen more than 10 minutes before the movie ends. It's very uneven and many scenes could have been trimmed or cut altogether. It ultimately seems like there's an idea for a solid Pitch Perfect follow-up but the focus is put in the wrong places. And Anna Kendrick does nothing. For shame.
C so says Doomsday
I had no interest in seeing the first Pitch Perfect movie. Why would I? It looked like Glee only on the big screen. It was at the very bottom of my list of movies to sit down and watch along with Lady in the Water and Juwanna Man. But then something happened, something that pushed it to the top of the pile; I got a girlfriend. So we sat down and watched Pitch Perfect, or I should say I agreed to watch Pitch Perfect because she had already watched about 200 movies of my choosing. It was only fair. What I found was Pitch Perfect was a really funny, really entertaining movie. I also found that many people I know are also huge fans of the movie, people I never would have expected. Yes, it was a standard, run of the mill storyline but it didn't play solely to the tween female crowd.
Undoubtedly Pitch Perfect 2 came down the line. Trying to make lightning strike twice, the sequel also has to do with the Bellas performing in a musical competition, this time on the national level. The kicker is if they don't win it all, the Bellas will be disbanded due to a mishap involving Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) accidentally flashing the President during a performance which gets them into this win or go home predicament. This puts them at odds with the current champions from Germany who play up pretty much every German cliche you can think of. Predictably you already know the ending before it even begins. Unfortunately what the movie doesn't do is recapture the spirit of the first. The jokes that seemed to flow in the first one seem to be shoehorned into this one and we can't have a Rebel Wilson scene that doesn't mention farting in some sense. One character is in there to remind everyone that she's an illegal immigrant while delivering punchlines that will make the audience more uncomfortable than anything. I do have to give credit for the jokes that do land and for the many times that characters don't end up in the typical pratfalls that you would expect. And a note to the writers and director (Elizabeth Banks helms this one); if you're going to set the movie up for a final competition in Copenhagen, make sure you get to Copenhagen more than 10 minutes before the movie ends. It's very uneven and many scenes could have been trimmed or cut altogether. It ultimately seems like there's an idea for a solid Pitch Perfect follow-up but the focus is put in the wrong places. And Anna Kendrick does nothing. For shame.
C so says Doomsday
