Pitch Perfect 3 Movie Review

Last weekend, I finally got around to watching Pitch Perfect 3 with my brother and now I wish I could unsee it. The final movie of the Pitch Perfect trilogy, compared to the first two, was not the best conclusion. If I knew this was the mess we were going to get, I would've requested them to end it at Pitch Perfect 2 and call it a day.

Let's start at the beginning. At first, I thought we put in the wrong movie as it set up like a typical action movie rather than a fun singing comedy in the form of a boat explosion. Everything wonderful about the first two movies must've got lost somewhere after that. 

All the Bellas are taken out of the college world and thrust into the real world where none of them are doing too well. Beca (Anna Kendrick) is working at an awful record label, Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) is her roommate doing a one-woman show, and everyone else is doing something they hate too. 

Beca and Jesse have also broken up. The excuse for not including Jesse and his singing group in the third movie. Their lack of presence was probably one of the things that made this movie not as successful as the first two. 

The plot itself felt tiresome and weak especially when they're all thrown together unevenly. Fat Amy and her father were the most interesting, but it was treated as a subplot to the main plot of the musical competition. So when Fat Amy's father ends up kidnapping the Bellas, it didn't feel like a lighthearted comedy anymore.

The musical numbers were fine and well-done, my favorite performance was "Toxic" when Beca and the Bellas sung for their kidnappers to buy Fat Amy some time to rescue them, thus catching us up to the start of the film.

I just wish the other singing groups on the tour, especially EverMoist, got more screentime because I loved watching them perform. The "Riff-Off" was one of the few great moments in the movie and the only time I was forgetting how awful this movie was. 

All the somewhat interesting stuff like Aubrey (Anna Camp) missing her father, Chloe (Brittany Snow) and her one-dimensional romance with Chicago (his name is Chicago), Esther and her romance with one of the band members, were all shoved in the after-credits to resolve them since we got no development to any of these plot threads. 

Overall, this movie should be avoided. I enjoyed the Pitch Perfect franchise since the beginning and to see it end like that made my heart hurt. Let's leave it alone and try not to revive it or anything. We need to put this behind us and move on with our lives.