Extremely Disappointing to Me

Rating: 3/10 (14 October 2012)

Basically, there is one character (Fat Amy) who singlehandedly makes this film almost-pseudo-watchable. She's irresistible. Without her, it would be 1/10. Extremely clichéd and unimaginative plot, with humor that is often unbelievably weak and forced, frequently over-sexed and in many cases, not really genuinely funny. All of it adds up to something that you might expect to see on Disney (although I enjoyed High School Musical far, far, far more), but with enough crude content to justifiably preclude that target audience. Pitch Perfect is not a really good, emotionally believable story; neither is campy/ironic/self-aware enough to be the good kind of ridiculous. Maybe it is only I who am to blame for going to see this, and it is only my opinion, but this is the worst movie that I have seen in recent memory. (Even Zoolander seems better in retrospective comparison, and that is saying something.)