Sometimes you just need to watch a movie that makes you laugh. Pitch Perfect is that movie. An inside look at the world of competitive collegiate a cappella (yes, that's a real thing), it features an ensemble of hilarious women who are singing their way to stardom.
Anna Kendrick plays Beca, a newly-arrived freshman at Barden University. Her father is a professor who wants Beca get a college education before she pursues her actual ambition of moving to LA to DJ and produce music. She's fairly aloof and not pleased to be there, but her father insists that she join at least one club and try to make friends before she writes off the entire college experience. When Chloe (Brittany Snow), a member of the Barden Bellas, the college's all-female a cappella group, hears Beca singing in the shower, she insists that Beca audition and join their group.
The Bellas put on a disastrous performance at last year's International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. As a result, their uptight leader, Aubrey (the wonderful Anna Camp), is focused on getting them back to the championship stage to redeem themselves and defeat their arch rivals the Treble Makers, Barden's all-male a cappella group. The problem is that Aubrey only wants to perform tired classics from the group's decidedly dusty repertoire, while Beca wants to experiment with some fresh mash-ups. The rest of the Barden Bellas are comprised of a rag-tag bunch of girls who are all weird and wonderful in their own way, including the fantastic Rebel Wilson, who plays the straightforwardly-named, Fat Amy. She prefers to be called Fat Amy so that no one will call her that behind her back - that should already tell you how much this character livens up the proceedings.
Throw in a romantic subplot with Beca and Jesse (Skylar Astin), a fellow freshman who gets recruited to join the Treble Makers, and you have yourself a movie. Beca and Jesse have an uneven relationship where he's clearly making more of an effort to win her over, but things even out as she begins to open up and accept that college and a cappella aren't as terrible as she suspected. Of course, the movie is punctuated with fantastic a cappella routines that feature some great singing, engaging choreography, and plenty of silliness and spectacle to keep you entertained. Written by 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon, and produced by Elizabeth Banks (who also stars in the movie as a hilarious a cappella competition color commentator), this is a very Bridesmaids-esque movie, that showcases funny women who are just having fun.
Pitch Perfect isn't the kind of movie that wins awards, but it wins over audiences. And in the long run, that's all that counts. So start watching and get ready to laugh, sing along, and have a good time.
Anna Kendrick plays Beca, a newly-arrived freshman at Barden University. Her father is a professor who wants Beca get a college education before she pursues her actual ambition of moving to LA to DJ and produce music. She's fairly aloof and not pleased to be there, but her father insists that she join at least one club and try to make friends before she writes off the entire college experience. When Chloe (Brittany Snow), a member of the Barden Bellas, the college's all-female a cappella group, hears Beca singing in the shower, she insists that Beca audition and join their group.The Bellas put on a disastrous performance at last year's International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. As a result, their uptight leader, Aubrey (the wonderful Anna Camp), is focused on getting them back to the championship stage to redeem themselves and defeat their arch rivals the Treble Makers, Barden's all-male a cappella group. The problem is that Aubrey only wants to perform tired classics from the group's decidedly dusty repertoire, while Beca wants to experiment with some fresh mash-ups. The rest of the Barden Bellas are comprised of a rag-tag bunch of girls who are all weird and wonderful in their own way, including the fantastic Rebel Wilson, who plays the straightforwardly-named, Fat Amy. She prefers to be called Fat Amy so that no one will call her that behind her back - that should already tell you how much this character livens up the proceedings.
Throw in a romantic subplot with Beca and Jesse (Skylar Astin), a fellow freshman who gets recruited to join the Treble Makers, and you have yourself a movie. Beca and Jesse have an uneven relationship where he's clearly making more of an effort to win her over, but things even out as she begins to open up and accept that college and a cappella aren't as terrible as she suspected. Of course, the movie is punctuated with fantastic a cappella routines that feature some great singing, engaging choreography, and plenty of silliness and spectacle to keep you entertained. Written by 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon, and produced by Elizabeth Banks (who also stars in the movie as a hilarious a cappella competition color commentator), this is a very Bridesmaids-esque movie, that showcases funny women who are just having fun.
Pitch Perfect isn't the kind of movie that wins awards, but it wins over audiences. And in the long run, that's all that counts. So start watching and get ready to laugh, sing along, and have a good time.
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