![]() ![]() ![]() Lithgow does an entertainingly terrible accent in “Pitch Perfect 3” that sounds like Dick Van Dyke’s disastrously tin-eared Cockney in “Mary Poppins,” and this is perplexing. But even she can’t quite finesse or explain John Lithgow, who plays the criminal father of Fat Amy. ![]() Once the USO tour is set into motion, it falls to Wilson to provide much of the humor here, and she is a skilled enough comic to push the narrative over most of its hurdles. Watch Video: 'Pitch Perfect 3': Bellas Win Riff-Off on a Technicality This line of dialogue strikes a sour note that is tough to recover from in what is supposed to be a lightweight piece of entertainment, but it basically gets forgotten as boilerplate musical numbers come and go on screen. This song is about “not being a Barbie doll” and being empowered and so forth, but the choreography is the usual pop stripper moves, and the girls are all dressed in a very Barbie-like way, which underlines the blatant “I’ll have my cake and eat it, too” of so much modern pop music.Īubrey (Anna Camp), who suffers from stage fright, blithely mentions that her high-ranking military father “basically killed Osama bin Laden” and can get them a gig entertaining the troops. Watch Video: 'Pitch Perfect 3' Trailer: Bellas Reunite to Compete Against Real Musiciansīeca is trying to produce music, and she tells people that she sings now just “for fun.” When the Bellas are invited to a reunion, their attempt at performing is sidelined by Emily (Hailee Steinfeld), who sings a pop song with her girl group. A short a cappella rendition on the soundtrack of the main musical theme from “Sex and the City” is a somewhat pointed reminder that these girls aren’t going to be living any kind of fantasy life - until the USO plot kicks in. This inexplicable and confusing opener is left dangling for most of the film until it is taken up again at the climax.Īround 10 minutes or so of “Pitch Perfect 3” go by before the Bellas are sent to entertain the troops, and they suggest a brief attempt to bring these characters into a “Girls”-like aesthetic of small apartments and bad jobs and diminished expectation. Patricia “Fat Amy” Hobart (Rebel Wilson) suddenly drops from the ceiling and sprays everywhere with a fire extinguisher, and then both she and Beca (Anna Kendrick) make a slow-motion jump from the boat, which has caught on fire. This third installment begins with a manic performance by the Bellas of the old Britney Spears hit “Toxic” while on board a ship. The Bellas aren’t sent to Afghanistan or Iraq, but to Spain, Italy, and France, presumably because those countries are somewhat pleasanter to visit and shoot in. As such, it initially struggles to find ways to keep them together before sending them all on a multi-country USO tour. ![]() This is no Oscar Winner, I am certain that I will see a dozen or so better movies this year, but none will having me laughing and smiling as much.“Pitch Perfect 3” takes place after the main female characters - members of a competitive a cappella group called the Bellas - have graduated from college. Skylar Astin as the love interest is also terrific though he needs to change his name, because for me the name Skylar brings only one thing to mind and she is married to Walter White. Speaking of Bridesmaids Rebel Wilson almost steals the show with every scene that she is involved with being hilarious, and in a lesser movie her scenes most certainly would be worth paying the price of admission alone, but there are so many other talents involved. I am pretty confident that it is going to be the surprise box office hit of the fall and it is so much better than the films that it is bound to be compared to like Mean Girls, Bring it On, and even Bridesmaids. This film is really raunchy and just skirts around an R rating several times, but it is just so fun. I laughed like crazy and loved the a capella singing. I scored free tickets to a Denver Screening awhile back and was just going to have my wife and 13 year old daughter go, but I watched the trailer and really thought Anna Kendrick was terrific in 50/50 and very good in Up in the Air so I thought, what the heck, I'm going too. ![]()
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