Pitch Perfect 2 - Review

Pitch Perfect 2
Review by Ellesse Harrigan

Pitch Perfect 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to thesmash hit comedy Pitch Perfect.Pitch Perfect 2 continues the musical theme with the over use of stage performances which highly overshadowed and almost made you forget about the actual storyline.Executive music producers Julianne Jordan and Julia Michels have ensured that every performance is note perfect and album ready, which rather detracts from any sense of realism: it's highly unlikely for groups to sing this in sync spontaneously. Pitch Perfect 2 tries to cover the original but ends up flat. The original Pitch Perfect was a shock to how much success it received which was justified by how funny, original, and witty it was where as Pitch Perfect 2 focused on the music and ridiculous humour.

The film follows the Bardon Bellas victory at the acapella worlds following a wardrobe malfunction by Fat Amy played by Rebel Wilson as they get kicked out of the choral academy.Even though,the storyline was not highly amusing,the performance from Rebel Wilson was exiting and hysterical.Wilson being the main feature of the film for having a comedic humour. Becca’s presence in the film has decreased. In fact, she spends much of her senior year guiltily sneaking off to an internship at a recording studio to pursue her dream of being a music producer instead of devoting herself to boosting her fellow Bellas. Hailee Steinfield has been added to the line up where ironically she added absolutely nothing to the film except from her ex-Bella of a mother.

In my opinion,the music was a disappointment in comparison to the original apart from the exception of Flashlight by Jessie J which seemed to be the song in the movie that brought everyone together and led the Bardon Bellas to victory.

Even though I found the sequel did not match up to the original,I still enjoyed the film due to Rebel Wilson's highly comedic performance which was the main attribute to the sequal.I would award the film 3 stars out of 5 purely for the comedy element.