aca-scuse me, where did all the fun go?

Rating: 4/10 (14 June 2015)

The things I love about the first pitch perfect became the things that fell flat in this movie: the snappy/witty dialogue and the music choices. There are so many amazing songs to choose from and so much heart could have been put into this, but it just...didn't work for me. At all. Which as an avid musical fan and a choir member of almost a decade is just really upsetting.
First of all WHAT HAPPENED with the harmony and the tone/volume?! For a team that was supposed to be a "family" or "sisterhood", I certainly didn't feel it,even at the world competition. Everything was boring. There wasn't as much passion put into any part of the way they preformed or acted.....I actually found myself wishing I could skip ahead most of the time, or waiting for the pace to pick up.
As for the dialogue, a lot of the lines that were supposed to be "funny" and "snappy" were just taken as flat out racism/sexism in my book. I know they weren't SUPPOSED to be, but they were. It was just not a good touch. The coupling in the movie was also unnecessary. It left me thinking "When did they even start liking each other?". I didn't see progression in the relationships that led me to want it to happen, it just felt rushed/put in there for romantic purposes.
There were nice moments, and the new girl could potentially be a nice touch in some ways, but really...just not great. Nothing that leaves me wanting to re watch it.
The only part I felt really moved on was the the ending with their original song. That's it. The rest of the time I was just sitting there watching a movie, wondering why I was watching this when I could be sleeping.