Pitch Perfect 2

Did a search for this and couldn't find it.

Saw this last night. I am a huge fan of the first movie and it still makes me laugh and the music is amazing. So went into this with mixed feelings - I heard relatively poor reviews, but I love Anna Kendrick, so that won out for me.

I have to say that I was bored. The music was still as good and the characters were still fun (though they spent no time developing the new and little-known ones), but the whole thing felt soulless and empty. The riff-off, which was the funniest part of the first movie, just wasn't this time around. If I'm honest, they should have just gone without it.

They had an extremely xenophobic view of the rest of the world (at one point they refer to some Indians as "spicy") and the whole thing, especially the

graduation

felt rushed, though the movie itself felt over-long.

I did laugh, but I didn't have the same warm feeling that I had leaving the first movie. It would be nice to see a third, but Banks should be left with just acting, not production.

brianregan09

Begrudgingly saw this with the other half the other night and surprisingly it was decent it would have been alot better without the fat amy character in there though her and Melissa Mccarthy need to go away soon

pmasterson95

Kendricks a ride I'll watch it for her at some point.

Caovyn Lineah

brianregan09 wrote: »

Begrudgingly saw this with the other half the other night and surprisingly it was decent it would have been alot better without the fat amy character in there though her and Melissa Mccarthy need to go away soon

Exactly my feelings after agreeing to go and watch it with the better half. It was grand for what it was.

cloud493

I loved it, much better than the first.

Niemoj

Watched it last night on a totally legal streaming site (!!) great film, a lot better than the first.

MakeEmLaugh

If the first film was aimed at teens/adults in their twenties, this filmed seemed to be aimed at 12 years old.

Almost all the jokes fell flat. The awkwardly crow-barred in Guatemalan character spouted nothing but racial stereotypes.

The one saving grace was the a capella-off with David Cross. That captured the spirit of the first film.

MakeEmLaugh

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

If the first film was aimed at teens/adults in their twenties, this filmed seemed to be aimed at 12 years old.

Almost all the jokes fell flat. The awkwardly crow-barred in Guatemalan character spouted nothing but racial stereotypes.

The one saving grace was the a capella-off with David Cross. That captured the spirit of the first film.

I was beginning to feel like I was the only one that didn't enjoy it - the racial stereotypes were a little uncomfortable, I thought. Anna Kendrick looked sort of bored during it.

JP Liz V1

brianregan09 wrote: »

Begrudgingly saw this with the other half the other night and surprisingly it was decent it would have been alot better without the fat amy character in there though her and Melissa Mccarthy need to go away soon

Rebel Wilson was overused way more in this one than the first, best part was John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks as the commentators

So generic a sequel that you assume that the entire thing was put together by a committee who had checked what was hot before throwing it altogether hoping for the best. There's a number of attempts at adding some dramatic weight through a number of subplots that peter out and quickly forgotten and the attempt at creating drama between the group fails, though you'd be hard pressed to find a single moment where the group actually come across as anything other than a bunch of people thrown together by circumstance.

The first film was a pleasant time killer, the sequel is a dull and plodding mess that feels far longer than it is and features a number of wtf moments, including sexual assault played for laughs and a german group who look like they've walked out of a fetish sex catalogue.

MakeEmLaugh

Deleted User wrote: »

So generic a sequel that you assume that the entire thing was put together by a committee who had checked what was hot before throwing it altogether hoping for the best. There's a number of attempts at adding some dramatic weight through a number of subplots that peter out and quickly forgotten and the attempt at creating drama between the group fails, though you'd be hard pressed to find a single moment where the group actually come across as anything other than a bunch of people thrown together by circumstance.

The first film was a pleasant time killer, the sequel is a dull and plodding mess that feels far longer than it is and features a number of wtf moments, including sexual assault played for laughs and a german group who look like they've walked out of a fetish sex catalogue.

Are you talking about a scene involving a gay character? That's the only one I can remember.

MakeEmLaugh

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

Are you talking about a scene involving a gay character? That's the only one I can remember.

In the tent there's a moment where the gay black girl feels up the girl laying beside her and it's played for laughs. I found the scene rather uncomfortable and not really something that should be trivialised.

MakeEmLaugh

Deleted User wrote: »

In the tent there's a moment where the gay black girl feels up the girl laying beside her and it's played for laughs. I found the scene rather uncomfortable and not really something that should be trivialised.

Yeah, that's the scene I thought you were talking about. I felt the same way.

captainfrost

Found it better than the first one, maybe because am just an average film watcher and maybe because i feel and know its just a movie and i do not try to connect reality with movielity(not a word).

Niemoj

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Rebel Wilson was overused way more in this one than the first, best part was John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks as the commentators

No relation to our dear old Uactarán I'm sure? :rolleyes:

DareGod

I saw this during the week. I found it lazy as hell - jammed with cli-che's, shameless predictability and not to mention way too many jokes at the expense of the fat girl. It's a really smug franchise that really hasn't earned the right to be, IMO. 5/10.

Edit: I forgot to say that I looked up reviews online first, including Empire and RTE which both gave it 4/5. Wtf? And Wikipedia states it has received generally positive reviews. Just goes to show that you really can't trust film reviews, even when most of them give something a great review. This film was lazy, smug trash that seemed to rely on the premise that contemporary references excite young audiences.