When the now-graduated Bellas reunite to see Emily ( Hailee Steinfeld) lead the current group in a performance, Chloe remarks about how different this generation of Bellas seems - “They all definitely have boyfriends.” Beca properly flashes her a weird look. There’s no romance there just a normal best-friend nonsexual embrace in bed when Beca’s feeling stressed. Taking Stock: Where’s The Queer Stuff?īeca and her roommate, Fat Amy ( Rebel Wilson, basically the star of the series at this point), canoodle on their bed. Based on the embarrassment of Bechloe music videos on YouTube and cringy Bechloe memes that can be found via a simple Google search, the Pitch Perfect’s fanbase wasn’t deterred. Did they get what they wanted? Not really, but fandom is all about adjusting your expectations. The series has a devoted following on Tumblr, where Pitch Perfect stans salivated at the thought of seeing the culmination of all their Bechloe dreams. The marketing team, too, jumped on this relationship when promoting the film, including some Instagram ads that alluded to a Bechloe kiss.Įntertainment magazines speculated about how much queer content would be in the third installment, questions exacerbated by actors and creatives implying that the third film would be gay to the umpteenth degree. ![]() But this time around, their relationship feels more cynically engineered, as if it’s convenient that Kendrick and Snow might want to make out only because that’ll help Pitch Perfect 3 sell tickets. Sure, Beca ( Anna Kendrick) is still sexually confused, the group still stays together in close quarters, and there’s still a bit of romantic tension between Beca and her best friend, Chloe ( Brittany Snow). Unfortunately, despite being the series’ best and funniest installment, Pitch Perfect 3 is also its least queer. But John Lithgow doing an intentionally over-the-top Australian accent as Amy’s shady, estranged father is a misfire and a waste of his formidable abilities.Baseball Movie: For Love of the Game - Overrated or Underrated? And the movie leans heavily on the physicality of her comedy, as always, while adding a layer of butt-kicking bad-assery that strangely makes sense. You can’t help but like her-but also long for sharper material for her. And Wilson has such a wild energy and she so gleefully embraces the inappropriate that she sort of wills you into submission. Several of the absurd throwaway lines are good for a laugh as always, Kendrick is a master of the deadpan aside. The numbers are lively as always, but with a sameness of energy and choreography that eventually makes them feel repetitive and numbing. The rest of the ladies are mostly an afterthought, each getting a line or two to update their status.Īn invitation to join a USO tour and perform in Spain, Italy and France provides just the contrivance to reunite the Bellas for one last hurrah and prolong their avoidance of adulthood.Īnd that’s pretty much it concerning the flimsiness of the storyline that links one song to another. And the ever-eager Chloe ( Brittany Snow, game as always) has her heart set on attending veterinary school. Beca has just quit her job as a music producer. All of the Bellas are out of college now-except Hailee Steinfeld’s barely-there Emily-and struggling to find their voice (see what I did there?) in the real world. Then the movie flashes back three weeks to catch us up to that point. Kendrick’s Beca leads the group out onto the deck, Rebel Wilson’s Fat Amy bursts in with a fire extinguisher and the ladies all leap into the water just in time as the boat explodes behind them. “Pitch Perfect 3” begins with the Bellas doing their signature dance-and-harmony bit aboard a mega-yacht to Britney Spears’ “Toxic” (which I’ll surely purge from my brain any day now). That doesn’t necessarily make it an improvement, but it’s at least an ambitious departure. ![]() But it’s as if she and director Trish Sie (“ Step Up All In”) decided to just go nuts in this final outing, turning it into a globetrotting, James Bond-style action picture. She maintains the overly produced pop tunes as a through line, of course-it’s the only real source of cohesion, and it’s the reason you’re here. Instead, Kay Cannon (who’s written the screenplays for all three movies) has blown things up entirely. ![]() So now we have “Pitch Perfect 3.” The best thing I can say about it is that it’s not another retread of its predecessor. ![]() Hence, in 2015, we got “ Pitch Perfect 2,” which was pretty much note for note and beat for beat the same movie as the original “Pitch Perfect,” despite the endlessly talented Elizabeth Banks making her feature directing debut.
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