A bad movie that was almost good

Rating: 3/10 (18 December 2012)

A lot of the singing in this movie is very good... and those bits are fun.
However so much of it is so over the top that it spoils the film.
It feels like band-aids have been stuck all over this movie to hold it together. The plot is barely continuous in many places.
The character development sucks... and it felt like the characters were trying not to say the stuff they were scripted to say. At least what you see is not what you hear.
Do we really need to see a deranged Chinese chick make vomit angels? The cute head of the choir who won't compromise? The chick with the nodes on her vocal cords is blown out of proportion. Fat Amy is a bit over the top... but is one of the things that kind of works. We have the compulsory nymphomaniac (why exactly?). Also the lesbian (also why?). It sounds more like a deranged group of girls rather than a choir. Vomit scene? Once was stretching it... second time it was just cheap laughs.
You squirm your way through this movie... when you should be enjoying it. It's like they started off with a clean slate and then added songs, jokes, characters... and at the end it was long enough to be a movie. Pity it could have been a really nice movie.
:-)