The story follows Beca (Anna Kendrick), a young girl with family issues who doesn't want to be at college, but owing to pressures of her father she joins one of several a capella groups on campus filled with all sorts of quirky characters and they compete in the a capella competition.
This sounds all very simple and paint by numbers, and to an extent, it is. But it's fun. Really fun, especially Rebel Wilson, whose one liners sent me in stitches and most of the people in the theatre with me.
In fact, this whole film is filled with some brilliant one-liners all over the place including some great turns from Elizabeth Banks, Brittany Snow and Anna Camp. As for uncanny casting, Skylar Astin (from the underrated Hamlet 2) plays the love interest for Beca and he has a ludicrously strong resemblance to Dane Cook. The casting for this whole film was pretty spot on, especially the supporting roles.
Pitch perfect is directed by Jason Moore who directed the Broadway production of Avenue Q, so this guy knows comedy and doesn't let down on the directing side. He gives us some great sequences including a wonderful 'auditions' montage and some wonderful twists on some typical movie scenes, proving he has some solid cinematic chops.
It pays to mention the music here which is, like the rest of the film, fun. Of course it's filled with the top 10 hits of the last decade, but who cares? The singing was pretty good, barring some occasional auto-tuning and some inexplicable bass harmonies in a supposed all-female group, but I'm nit picking now.
I thoroughly enjoyed myself and came out smiling, and sometimes, that's all you really need.
8.5/10
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