Film Review - Pitch Perfect (2012)

Pitch Perfect stars Anna Kendrick as Becka, a young girl who is entering college on advice from her father who hopes that it will help her live a little before heading to LA to try and become a DJ, she then joins a college group called the Bellas who are determined to make up for their disastrous performance at Lincoln Centre in New York the year before.

Pitch Perfect is a lot of fun and at times Aca-funny, especially Rebel Wilson who delivers some great comic timing though the standout performer for me here is Kendrick, she is simply wonderful in this film in terms of creating a character that for me really felt like a girl you might come across in this big wide world of ours rather than a cliched film character that feels more like the creation of a male Hollywood screenwriter and would most likely be another borderline sexist stereotype that we sadly see far too often.

The film also has a very good soundtrack that has a nice mix of old and new songs in it and the climax is also very well staged though I did have a couple of complaints about the film:

The first is that the film does run a little too long for a comedy, it could've been trimmed by a good 10-15 minutes and the other is that outside of Kendrick and Wilson to a lesser extent the other characters aren't that interesting and do resemble the stereotypes we've seen before and that part of the film did bore me somewhat though when the film was over it didn't bother me that much.

So all in all, Pitch Perfect is an Aca-fun college comedy very much in the style of Bring it On from 2000 and like that film is a fun surprise, 3 out of 5.