Pitch Perfect 3 is a bad, bad film… and the one-sentence plot is identical to its predecessors
With the story line being so nonsensical, you can only imagine they are continuing on the franchise because the last outings brought in $400million
THAT this is the third Pitch Perfect film is the most miraculous thing about the 90 minutes I spent watching this lame mess of a movie.
If Rebel Wilson had fallen through the roof of a yacht with a fire extinguisher while a group of women sing Toxic by Britney Spears to distract their captor I would have believed it . . . Oh, hang on – that’s exactly how it opens.
This is a bad, bad film.
The one-sentence plot is that the girls reunite to entertain the troops and win a competition. That’s it.
Bloke chases girl, girl chases bloke, a missing dad makes one girl sad, naughty dad makes one girl mad, blah blah. No one looks like they enjoyed making this.
The plot is nonsensical – a band contest that just stops happening for no reason.
A band whose sole existence is to call themselves Evermoist and whole – supposedly crucial – elements resolved in a heartbeat.
This made $400million in previous outings so you can understand the logic behind making it, but you have to assume that the cast are contractually obliged to be there.
John Lithgow, however, must have lost a bet, such is the awfulness of his Australian accent.
The fact that DJ Khaled – a man who is to acting what a car is to a swimming lesson – is not the worst thing in Pitch Perfect 3 should tell you a lot.
Pitch Perfect 3
(12A) 93 mins
★★☆☆☆