![]() ![]() The stakes are so fleeting and nonsensical to mean almost nothing in Pitch Perfect 3. ![]() It’s not just the competition that is half-heartedly constructed here. When the Bellas challenge the the other USO muscians, a girl rock band named Evermoist and a DJ named DragonNuts to their signature Riff Off, it’s hard not to feel for the other musicians who just want to do their sound check and probably take a nap before their performance starts. It’s hard to root for an a capella group to get a much-coveted spot as the opening act of DJ Khaled’s upcoming tour when they never seem to practice, perform, or in anyway work towards their apparent goal as serious musicians. At the start of Pitch Perfect 3, she is a music producer, but the reality doesn’t live up to the expectation, and so Beca quits her job and heads to Europe with her motley gang of singing weirdos to entertain the troops. It’s Aubrey’s (Anna Camp) military dad who gets the girls the gig, however, and that tells you a lot about the stakes here. In Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick’s Beca is desperate to escape the ivory tower to head to LA and begin her career as a music producer. Pitch Perfect 3 sees the Barden Bellas reuniting once more for a USO tour, as the excuses to get these now-adult women together to sing the requisite musical numbers become more and more outlandish. The Pitch Perfect franchise has come a long way since its halcyon days of university radio stations and collegiate a capella competitions, but the growth is not without its pains. ![]()
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