Anti-social aspiring DJ, Beca, is coerced into going to
college and finds herself on a campus where no cliques are right for her.
Somehow or other she gets muscled into joining the Barden Bellas, an a cappella
girl group trying to regain some credit after last year’s disastrous finals. A
rag-tag group of means girls, sweet girls, and weird girls, the Bellas are
bound in traditional and done-over routines that threaten their chances of
winning the finals. But when Beca begins to take a shine to the girls, she puts
her natural DJ-ing skills to great effect, coming up with new and modern a
cappella tracks that keep the girls in the fight to win.
This is a really fun
and modern ‘teen’ movie. It’s a bit like Glee,
but a version with excess vomiting and stronger sexual references. I think what
I particularly loved about it was that it modernised a genre of music that you
don’t see very often these days: a cappella. The human voice is a truly
remarkable thing and this movie just shows how fantastic it is when applied in
one field. I really enjoyed this flick.
Anti-social aspiring DJ, Beca, is
coerced into going to college and finds herself on a campus where no cliques
are right for her. Somehow or other she gets muscled into joining the Barden
Bellas, an a cappella girl group trying to regain some credit after last year’s
disastrous finals. A rag-tag group of means girls, sweet girls, and weird
girls, the Bellas are bound in traditional and done-over routines that threaten
their chances of winning the finals. But when Beca begins to take a shine to
the girls, she puts her natural DJ-ing skills to great effect, coming up with
new and modern a cappella tracks that keep the girls in the fight to win.
As
these teen comedies go, this is a pretty average flick; the plotline can get a
tad predictable although there were some great twists in the awkward romance
story and the teen-rebellion-against-parenting side-stories.
As far as plot
went, I though this movie was a little aloof; it wasn’t driven on plot, which
is something that you don’t often see in movies and can either work, not work,
or work at a half-and-half level. This one worked at half-and-half. The plot
was there and relatively solid, but what kept you rapt was this blend of
mismatched characters. There was a sincerity and subtleness regarding the
comedy in this film and I have to say that I found that fascinating.
The real
stars of the show were these strange blends of characterisations and the
soundtrack of modern tracks done a cappella style. The soundtrack was fantastic!
And the mix of the girls was brilliant. We’ve got two prims, a sex-addict, a
black lesbian, an alternative chick, a fat-pride busta (love her!), and an
eerily off-centre Asian with a really
soft voice. The mix was fantastic!
Starring Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow,
Skylar Astin, Ben Platt, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean,
Hana Mae Lee, Adam DeVine, John Benjamin Hickey, John Michael Higgins, and
Elizabeth Banks, Pitch Perfect is a
great little movie that’s packed with fantastic music, comedy, and romance. I
really liked it.
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