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James.k.Polk wrote:The Bad nerd Reviews Un-Nerdy Movies:
Pitch Perfect 2
Pitch Perfect 2 is a sloppy mess of a movie with a few decent characters and one or two relatively funny lines. As even people who know nothing about anything know, the movie starts with Rebel Wilson (Fat Amy) splitting her pants on stage and helplessly rotating until her crotchal area is in full view of President Obama and his family.
Movie logic means that this wardrobe malfunction gets her a capella group expelled from a cappella competition, national ridicule, shame. Polk wonders if one of the slender, cute girls in the group had split her pants would such an outrage have occurred? I call it "The Melissa McCarthy Effect". The fat person in a movie will do something clumsy and/or stupid and the repercussions of that clumsy stupidness are proportionate to the fat person's body mass index.
A loophole means that their singing group can still compete in an international a cappella competition (they have those?) and this bunch of girls whose names I do not know vow to redeem themselves. Oh and also Katy Sagal is there playing the mother of a young ingenue who wants to join the group. Of course new girl is a Taylor Swift-like songwriting genius. She joins Fat Amy (the one who's name I know) and the 28 to 30 year-old college "senior" who lands an internship with a bigshot music producer. Rounding out the group are:
Offensive stereotype lesbian group member, a chunky black girl with who wears army fatigues and who's first lines in the film are basically "I'm a lesbian, in case you can't read stereotype"
Offensive stereotype Columbian group member, a perky latina who's first line of dialogue, I shit you not, is "I had diarrhea for seven years."
Offensive stereotype Asian girl with long hair and long straight bangs. She says very little, but at an opportune moment reveals that she has ninja training.
A cast of nearly identical cute white girls I couldn't really tell apart.
This plucky group somehow manages to fall on their faces at every opportunity. Invited to a mysterious basement sing-off, the lose the grand prize (a forty-two thousand dollar Dave & Busters gift card) because OOPS they accidentally mixed in an original song by Innocent into the mix of 90s hip-hop standards.
Also--
Fat Amy manages to alienate the nerdy boy a cappella singer who loves her.
Music Intern girl manages to impress her tough music producer boss by doing a Christmas song mashup with Snoop Dog (randomness alert!)
Music Intern Girl then manages to disappoint boss by providing him an audition tape of nothing but other mashups. ("I liked what you did before-- never do it again because I will hate it")
And those are, as far as I remember, the only characters who contribute anything to the story at all.
