“We’re back pitches”

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Estefania Valencia in Entertainment

Ana Amador

Chronicle Reporter

Everyone’s favorite group of “misfit” girls are back in Pitch Perfect 2. Starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, and directed by Elizabeth Banks, Pitch Perfect 2 was expected to be even funnier than the first one. But like most sequels, it was just another Hollywood attempt to squeeze money out of mainstream franchise. If you didn’t think the trailer was funny then don’t watch the movie because it wasn’t much better.

The movie begins with Beca’s (Anna Kendrick) college acapella group, the Barden Bellas, performing for President Obama. The group’s performance falls apart from too many pyrotechnics and props, embarrassing the world of acapella and resulting in the Barden Bellas being forbidden from doing competition and from going on their victory tour. To replace them, the group’s rival, a German acapella group named Das Sound Machine, takes over their victory tour.

The beginning of the movie consists of too many montages of the actors doing things that don’t move the story line forward like partying or traveling from one side of the college to the other and it feels as if the entire first half of the movie is a filler for the end.

The movie basically is the Barden Bellas breaking down back to what they were at the beginning of the first film because all of the members are seniors and they’re starting to realize they can’t get a job singing acapella. The interesting parts of the movie are all at the very end when the group finally gets it together.

Some of the jokes were funny but there weren’t  enough of them to convince me that any real effort was put into making this movie. The acting wasn’t great because the characters were two-dimensional to a point where I felt the writers were insulting Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson’s acting abilities.

This movie may be complemented for the singing and a few jokes here and there but overall the movie’s events are all over the place leaving the audience curious as to what the conflict of the movie was, therefore losing the climax element (the best part) of the movie.