Pitch Perfect is a sweet and colourful musical comedy

Rating: 8/10 (8 December 2012)

"Anna Kendrick once again shows she can light up any part on screen and this time she is front an centre singing but also providing some comedy in this sweet tale of an all singing a Capella girl group"
Singing in modern times has seemed to be brought back to life by FOX's Glee, that has helped making this story come to the screen. Beca (Anna Kendrick) is your normal college girl who is roped into joining an all singing girl group which includes characters such as "Fat" Amy (Rebel Wilson), Chloe (Brittany Snow) and Aubrey (Anna Camp). The group for only including girls of course will lead to cat fights and makeups especially when trying to make this girl group more appealing to win New York singing competition.
The film could mainly be compared to the teenage classic Bring It On but the two separate movies do have a lot of differences. Firstly is that unlike Bring It On being about cheer leading Pitch is about a Capella singing and how people can become popular by singing these type of songs. Secondly this film with some cartoonish one note characters does have some heart by setting up the main relationships between the characters but also how the music is used so well and also sung so well. Going into the film I was worried that the concept of this type of singing would be boring but I was really enjoying most of it mainly because these women have very good singing voices.
Anna Kendrick plays Beca showing once again the screen loves her because she does a very good job at a character that has been done so many times but she just supplies Beca with her usual comedic timing but also making us care about her character especially when everyone does not listen to what she has to say. Rebel Wilson has been doing so many small roles for some time now and with this role she finally gets to give us a character that could break her out more into the public. She is so funny and nails all her one liners almost stealing the film from everyone involved. Everybody else in the cast plays their roles well with some mentions going to Anna Camp, Skylar Astin and Brittany Snow.
The film does suffer from some normal story lines of a girl falling in love with a guy and when we first meet Beca she does not come off as that type of girl but like most romantic comedy's the main girl must fall in love with a boy. The singing is strong throughout providing moments that make you smile but also that make you laugh at how ridiculous the staging is. Overall the film is strong but some moments just did not work for me just brings down it's score for me.
MOVIE GRADE: B (MVP: Anna Kendrick)