Review: Pitch Perfect 3

"Number one was painful, number two was dreadful. Number three has to be good yeah?"

Are you tired of lazy writing, cliché jokes, and music that brings everything down to the lowest common denominator? Then this film is NOT for you.

The plot to this film is very thin. Very… The Bella’s get together to go on an USO tour. Then we get the usual plot line of, there’s a competition against other groups, with one of them is really bitchy for no reason, but would you believe, they come out on top in the end and earn the respect of everyone in the process. Oh sorry, spoiler alert.

Oh, but we did get a random kidnap plot diversion involving explosions and Rebel Wilson doing action movie fighting… including a nipple cripple. Yes, that’s where we’re at by the third one.

But if you had told me before the film that John Lithgow would be in the film, and he would be by far the worst thing in the film, I would not have believed you. His character is appallingly written and his attempts at an Australian accent is almost as bad as his singing.

Along for the ride are most of the characters we’ve seen before, including our commentators who are constantly following the Bella’s around, just to continue their terrible jokes that weren’t funny in the first film, and are just sad now.

Oh, and let’s not mention that at the heart of the plot is the idea that the girls are family and this film is supposed to inspire girls to work together support one another… except for two Bella’s who are constantly bullied and left out by the rest of the girls. Even during the kidnapping, we point at them when the villain asks which one’s they are after Amy states that he can harm them and she won’t care…

Rebel Wilson tries hard to give the film some laughs, as it seems most of the humour wasn’t written into the script and they just asked her to make up her lines as she went. Sadly, few of the jokes land anywhere near the mark.

With more montages than a Rocky movie to move the plot along, generic musical numbers and the typical love interest’s interactions, and as always, poor Becca just keeps having everything handed to her but we all just need to feel sorry for her and her difficulties in life.

The film acts at times like this is the final film in the series, but you know there will be a fourth if the box office is good. Try not to add to the box office. I don’t want to be dragged to another one.