“Hands
in aca-bitches”
I
can remember seeing the trailer for Pitch
Perfect over the summer when I saw some movie. I thought it looked pretty
good especially at the part in the trailer where Rebel Wilson says her
character’s name is Fat Amy. Ever since seeing the trailer over the summer I have
wanted to see Pitch Perfect and now
that it has been released on DVD I finally got around to seeing the movie.
Beca
(Anna Kendrick) is a freshman at Barden College where her dad is a professor.
She has passion for music and makes her own song mash ups. Beca really wants to
give up school and head out to Los Angeles to try to make it in the music
business but her father wants her to give college a try and make some friends. They
come to a decision that if Beca can give college a try her father will pay for
her to live in LA.
While
walking around campus Beca comes across the acapella group the Barden Bellas.
The Bellas are run by Aubrey (Anna Camp) and Chloe (Brittany Snow). Aubrey
really wants to make it to the finals again after they bombed the year before
when she projectile vomited on stage at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Beca does not want anything to do with a group
like that the girls are definitely not her type. Later on while taking a shower
in the dorm showers Beca starts singing not thinking anyone else is in there.
Out of nowhere Chloe barges in and proclaims that Beca can sing and should try
out. Cornered naked in the shower Beca agrees to go to try outs.
Beca
makes the group as well as some other girls who are not exactly the most
popular or pretty including Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson). Aubrey is very controlling and
wants things to go her way. All the songs they sing are from the previous
century there are no current songs which Beca knows is a mistake.
Of
course down the road issues come up and the Bellas almost do not get their
then, what a shock, they do! Quirky Beca helps to make the Bellas current and
fun.
The
cast was really good. Anna Kendrick is so good as an actress and as a singer. I
am very happy that over the past few years she has been able to break away from
her awful character in the stupid Twilight
movies (I have seen the first Twilight and
I unfortunately read the books and her character Jessica was annoying as hell. I
know what I am talking about here). Kendrick had the perfect look for her
character and played the attitude aspect very well. Rebel Wilson is in the movie.
No matter what she did in her scenes she completely stole the whole movie. From
the moment she comes on screen you are just laughing like crazy. Elizabeth
Banks played an announcer who was a pointless character but was so damn funny.
Banks along with Rebel Wilson stole the movie. She can do no wrong in my eyes.
Anna Camp is adorable. She was perfect as the lead of a group called The
Bellas. No matter how many other things I have seen Camp in she will always be
Reverend Newlin’s wife haha. Brittany Snow was alright she is not a very good
actress and she did not stand out.
All
the characters were the stereotypical characters of any teen movie but mixed
together made modern they were all very funny and entertaining. Since the
actors were all great in their parts none of their characters got boring or too
much.
I
was actually surprised that I wound up thinking Pitch Perfect was funny and actually very well done. I have sworn
off teen movies they just get worse and worse but this is one of the best I have
seen in a long time. Pitch Perfect is
a lot of fun to watch and some of the scenes and lines are witty and biting and
hilarious.
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