Pitch Perfect is good, bad, and extremely cheesy. The music-based movie starring Anna Kendrick from the Twilight series and Up in the Air, plays the lead as Beca, an aspiring DJ with a college girl angst. The movie is about accapella groups at Barden University. Beca joins the all-female group, The Bellas, whose rivals are the notorious all-boy group The Treble Makers.
The movie was very cheesy, and at times over done. Skylar Astin played Jesse, Beca’s love interest. Jesse’s approach at getting Beca’s attention was very cliche. Starting with lip-syncing in a car, Jesse acts a drunken slurring mess and hides between records at the college radio station; everything Jesse did was terribly done. The acting was mediocre, to the point where it was not sincere. You could tell how scripted the scenes were.
One of the highlights of the movie was when all of the acappella singers were having a High School Musical meets You Got Served sing-off moment. Previous to Beca’s membership in The Bellas, they were more conservative. With this performance, Beca started rapping and singing common songs that everyone there enjoyed and started breaking the barrier on how The Bellas were seen.
Pitch Perfect was undeniably corny, but the jokes kept the movie alive. Fat Amy, played by Rebel Wilson (from the movie Bridesmaids), stood out amongst all the other actors. She made an upfront and in-your-face entrance into the movie by establishing her “fat” identity. She keeps rolling with the jokes the entire movie with promiscuous attitude and comedic personality, which gave the movie the humor it needed to bring in the dollars from the box office.
The Bellas rivals, The Treble Makers are a group of egotistical college boys with frat-like demeanor. The lead singer, Bumper, played by Adam DeVine is the epitome of a tool. His facial expressions, along with the way he thinks that everything revolves around him and his group can easily make you roll your eyes. His acting was more or less exaggerated and came off very fake.
Overall the jokes kept the movie alive, while the acting could have used more work. Although Pitch Perfect was far from perfect, it was worth the $10.25 to go see. It really kept me laughing, even if at times it stemmed from terribly written scenes.
