Plot
After a humiliating command performance at Lincoln Center, the Barden Bellas enter an international competition that no American group has ever won in order to regain their status and right to perform.
Release Year: 2015
Rating: 7.2/10 (1,701 voted)
Critic's Score: 65/100
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld
Storyline
The Bella's are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated infront of none other than the President of the United States of America, the Bella's are taken out of the Aca-Circuit. In order to clear their name, and regain their status, the Bella's take on a seemingly impossible task: winning an International competition no American team has ever won. In order to accomplish this monumental task, they need to strengthen the bonds of friendship and sisterhood, and blow away the competition with their amazing aca-magic! With all new friends and old rivals tagging along for the trip, the Bella's can hopefully accomplish their dreams.
Writers: Kay Cannon, Mickey Rapkin
Cast: Anna Kendrick -
Beca
Rebel Wilson -
Fat Amy
Hailee Steinfeld -
Emily
Brittany Snow -
Chloe
Skylar Astin -
Jesse
Adam DeVine -
Bumper
Katey Sagal -
Katherine
Anna Camp -
Aubrey
Ben Platt -
Benji
Alexis Knapp -
Stacie
Hana Mae Lee -
Lilly
Ester Dean -
Cynthia Rose
Chrissie Fit -
Flo
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen -
Kommissar
Flula Borg -
Pieter Krämer
Trivia:
Olivia Holt (a current Disney Channel star) sang as the lead female singer of the Canadian Accapella Group during the World Championships See more »
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Rating: 8/10
Pitch Perfect 2, strikes as a mere encore of a sold out performance.
The effort is focused on reprising its previous success, rather than
delivering something new, fresh, and original. Such retread tends to
bore audience, but it works out well in favor of this film.
The story picks up three years after the events in the first
installment. Bellas have already won three national titles, and now
they're singing with the American president in the audience. This
should should propel the group toward a bigger success, only it never
happens. Because in the end, when a major wardrobe malfunction
involving Fat Amy suddenly cleaves into the occasion, their career
meets an abrupt shut off. Gravely humiliated, their only shot at
redemption, rests on winning the world championships. This pits them
against the brutally talented and ruthlessly mean German Group, Das
Sound Machine. This load is more than enough for them to bear, but to
make it even worse, Beca (Kendrick) is pulled away from the group by
competing priorities, most striking is when an internship for a record
label comes into view.
The sequel's efforts to make everything simple is evident as it fixes
its spotlight on the same spots that made the first film both fun and
moving. Pitch Perfect 2 is both mean and sweet as the first outing, and
here, both attributes again are well-mixed and given with equal level
of importance. From time to time, it throws double-meaning jokes, which
may be mostly offensive, but it also places the emotional weight of the
narrative on the other side of the bar, to keep the balance, and to
make everything with brow-arching tendency, tolerable. The script is
also smart to allow key characters to shine. Most notably, the sequel
sheds more light on the franchise's probably goofiest character, Fat
Amy, allowing her deliver a big part of the comic efforts of the movie.
Strong supports like the mean commentators, Gail and John, can't be
dismissed too, and those in German group, with their often display of
ruthlessness and authority, that would rather send you to laughing,
than shrugging. Where it's most emotional, Beca (Kendrick), is at its
center. Anna Kendrick's character keeps the group altogether, and while
she is torn between rival commitments and her personal issues, she once
again manages to keep Bellas' morale intact. This doesn't make the
movie more emotionally complex than it should be, but it's also good to
get bits of drama and inspiration, when all you feel is exploding to
endless laughter and brittle chuckles.
At some points, there is a sense of wanting for everything to be
stronger. There are efforts to tell more with expositions that come
into view here and there, but I'll be honest to tell that seldom do
these subplots feel necessary, or properly presented. In the end, what
makes this sequel equally a stand out, is a convincing power of women
empowerment. Amidst of all its efforts to entertain and ignite bursts
of laughter, there's a message here, and it imparts a thing or two
about equality.
There's still a lot to negatively comment about PITCH PERFECT 2, I mean
I get it, we all get it. Nothing is perfect, and certainly, this sequel
is without flaw. PITCH PERFECT 2 may be singing the same tunes, but
what is not to like in a song that puts you in an LSS mode? What sense
does babbling about its shortcoming make, when we'll all end up humming
the same songs they've sung in the movie, anyway?
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