Lacking a lot - MANY spoilers

Rating: 5/10 (18 May 2015)

Its hard to write about a movie with so many flaws. So ill start with the run time.
The movie runs for about 1 hour and 55 minutes. about 25 minutes too long. There were scenes that were not required for the progression of the movie.
I know that the Acapela battle off was something that everyone loved in the first film. However the weird, out of the blue invitation, to David Cross' under ground Acapela arena in order to bring it back, offered nothing to the plot. It had no significance to their movement towards the world championships and was something that could've been easily left out.
The movie left a lot of loose ends. This could be due to a third movie however I felt that they needed to be addressed. For example, Beca (Anna Kendrick) and her attempt to enter the music industry through an internship at a high end record label company ended at Keegan Michael enjoying the song she produced and nothing more. I was stunned to find out that this didn't progress further. Rather it was left at that with nothing more to be added.
Finally the actual world championships themselves! We got to enjoy the different Acapela groups from all over the world perform and watched the Germans do essentially the same dance they had been doing all movie, which for some reason was deemed to be a good act. Then out of nowhere, the past Bella's coming back to perform with the current group ending with a cut back to the US showing the trophy with world champions written on it, making us just presume they won overall. I just thought it was a vague and weak ending to the movie. We didn't see any of the emotion that was involved with being the best in the world at something or even that they don't have to discontinue their group anymore. If the scenes that were not required for the story of the movie were cut and more effort was put into the ending of the movie, I would have rated this much higher.
Overall the comedy was quite good, acting was what you would expect. Rebel Wilson was very funny as always and there were many moments that I couldn't resist laughing. If the plot was stronger and the ending was improved, I feel that I could have put this up with some of the better comedies out there. I guess there isn't much more you can expect with a sequel. 5 out of 10