Review: ‘Pitch Perfect 3’ Shows The Series is Aca-OVER ★★★
**Spoiler Alert**
As you may remember, we first met the Bellas when they were all embarking on the quirky fun college life. Then we continued to see them in their college live and graduating in the second film. But, this time around for the third and final film, we follow the Bellas into their supposed successful lives.
We come to find out that adult life isn’t what it seems for the Bellas, while they try to grasp tightly to their younger years. We see Beca played by Anna Kendrick, she starts the film off by quitting her dream yet demeaning record label job. Then there’s Chloe, played by Brittany Snow who is trying to get into veterinary school. We finally see Fat Amy played by Rebel Wilson, working on her her Fat Amy Winehouse impersonations throughout New York City. When life is going that bad, what better thing to do than reunite and join a U.S.O. tour, where they perform and compete for a spot to open up for DJ Khaled, played by no one better than DJ Khaled himself.
Casting someone as big as DJ Khaled can be a somewhat challenging thing when it comes to scripting the movie and even choosing the songs, they Bellas would sing. It almost just did fit, with songs and performances just falling flat. Not only did the acapella performances not engage our little ears and fulfill what we’ve been missing from the Bellas since they graduated but a twisted plot was added that the film just could’ve done without.
It almost felt like a cheaper version of Charlie’s Angels when Fat Amy was reunited with her father played by John Lithgow, a man she ran away from without a word. We come to find out Amy’s family was loaded and her father has come back into the picture because Amy has a bank account in the Cayman Islands that her mother left her with $180 million dollars. Amy doesn’t know about this account until she finds out her father is trying to con her into going to the Cayman Islands so he can retrieve the funds.
The only entertaining part of this reunion is when Amy is on a mission to rescue her friends, after her father has kidnapped them. She battles his security with the most random objects, such as using link sausages as nunchucks and using a sandwich in tinfoil as as an explosive.
Perhaps the best park and lesson the film portray is that no matter where you are in life, you can always count on that special group of friends that have been there through thick and thin.
Pitch Perfect 3
Director Trish Sie
Writers Kay Cannon, Mike White
Stars Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Hailee Steinfeld
Rating PG-13
Running Time 1h 33m
Genres Comedy, Music
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