Pitch Perfect 2 pitches.

I wanted to watch Mad Max, however my sister was more keen on Pitch Perfect 2 which fits the genre she generally watches. I always do what she says anyway so we ended up watching this film. I liked the first Pitch Perfect, it was so surprising how good it actually was.

So this was a film I expected to be at least an enjoyable time in the cinema, and it was.

Anna Kendrick and crew returns for another musical comedy that has taken on a larger scale now, with the world Acapella competition being the main focus as they need to win it to continue as a group. However they encounter fierce rivalry with a German team called Das Sound Machine, and I don’t speak German very well (I struggle even with basics), but even I know “die” is more grammatically correct than “das” but hey most people wouldn’t know the difference.

They are freaking awesome in this movie, and I felt that the Kommissar who is one of the leads in the group, played by Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, was pretty funny and had a super cool voice. Flula Borg, of youtube fame, was also pretty great in this movie and I never knew he was so talented given that I have only watched very few videos of his.

Now the real giver of laughs though was Rebel Wilson’s Fat Amy/Patricia, who at one point made me laugh so hard, the people around me were staring and my sister cracked up. I honestly think if she wasn’t in this film, this would’ve been a crap film, because she is the one who carries this film unlike the first one where Anna Kendrick owned the movie. However, Rebel is playing the same characters she always plays: the fat girl who is hilarious and makes jokes at her expense.

Anna Kendrick is after all the lead in this film, but I somehow felt she has taken a backseat and her story arc was sufficient but not exactly enough for me to care. This film never explored her relationship with Jesse much, and her inability to decide between internship and Bella’s is so generic and overdone that I could give two craps about that knowing she will choose both blah blah. She is still a great actress, and her scenes with Kommissar really gave me a chuckle.

Hayley Steinfeld is the new chick in this film, and someone who I assumed was casted in hopes of taking the mantel from the group. She played a dorkyish girl named Emily who dreamed of joining the Bella’s due to her mum being an ex-Bella, making her a legacy. She was an a serviceable character with not as much charisma as the other ladies but she played her role to the best of her abilities.

This film was nowhere near as coherent and good as the first film, but it was enjoyable with enough laughs and cool acapella moments to keep me satisfied.

I will give it 3 Bella’s out of 5