Wow

Rating: 4/10 (7 August 2015)

I am a big fan of the movie Pitch Perfect. After having a free night, I decided to watch this film because hey, what harm could it do? I was very disappointed.The jokes are stale and sometimes even irrelevant. Characters have undergone transformations that simply doesn't seem right. Beca is no longer moody and independent with aspirations of becoming a DJ and slowly finding her place; she is fumbling and awkward, making bad jokes and given the role of a rambler. We do not see her relationship with Jesse, or even with other cast members. This is fine, she has a job and she's busy, but it was executed poorly.
Amy, who had been very entertaining in the first movie, has been given a bigger part. Mistake. Amy is amusing but she is not enough to carryon her own dramatic story. She is given a romance with anothercharacter, which at some points were amusing until it got "serious".
My biggest fear coming in was that it was going to be the same situation on a bigger scale and that there would be no new characters. But there are, two the stood out that is. Emily and a stereotypical and offensive Latina woman. Now the Latina woman is thrown racist comments (oh so many racist and sexist comments to everyone) and she does this awful thing where she says horrible irrelevant things like "my brother tried to sell me for a chicken" or "I had diarrhea for seven years". No, Pitch Perfect, you do not have to stoop to this.
Emily is my least favorite character of the year, and mind you I have recently watched Daredevil and I'm not happy with Wilson. She is given the role of a "legacy". Her mother was a Bella, which granted her special auditioning privileges? She could have been a quirky and awkward character, which I believe she was meant to be, but her actor did not pull this off. Her character was short of embarrassing. Ben, an endearingly adorable character from the first movie, is suddenly a man who cannot speak English while seeing this girl? He is reduced to her love interest and it is almost sickening. I don't know the purpose of Emily's character, nor the importance. But she was a bad character, unnecessary if not to prove a point of a character maybe feeling left out in the group?
Jesse get about three minuets of screen time (I wasn't even aware he'd be making an appearance). Honestly, this movie was not good. It was just looking for a cheap spin-off for some money, and it worked. I recommend the first movie instead.