Too Many Exaggerated Moments.

Rating: 6/10 (10 May 2015)

There are so many "Why Is This In This Movie!??" moments in Pitch Perfect 2 that made it much less than it could be for me. I thought that potentially they ran out of things to say/times they could sing, so added in scenes for filler material which kept me wondering throughout, why is this scene in here, how does it add to this movie in the slightest, and what is the point of it at all?
There are some nice themes running through this movie as expected; how scary it is to leave college, how growing up kind of sucks, friendship and bonding and all that jazz. Humour wise, I continued to enjoy Rebel Wilson's quips; I thought she really carried the humour for the most part, but to all the other supposedly humorous parts - well I don't think mocking of racism and sexism is the same as simply perpetuating it. The lines just don't come off in the movie like satire at all, especially the comments at the final showdown about the other teams.
As an offside comment also, if a bunch of girls go to a party and some really creepy guy in a bathrobe opens the door and there is no one else inside the house, that probably means danger and you should probably leave before it turns into a horror slasher movie.
And again perhaps off topic, but did they explain how everyone managed to afford to fly all the way to Copenhagen? Or were we supposed to suspend disbelief with regards to that?
Don't get me wrong, the singing in this movie is fantastic, and those are for the most part thoroughly enjoyable even when one is thinking err, why are they here, singing? And I'm not sure if I'm alone in this but if that German group decided to perform at a club here I would actually buy tickets to that show (which also made the ending kind of annoying for me because I didn't think that schmaltzy performance deserved to win, although OK, what did I expect, and OK, what do I know about judging acapella performances?!).
It was enjoyable, it was entertaining, it just didn't gel like I expected it to or quite live up to the first movie.