PP3 revives the franchise--please let it end here for the moment

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 2018)

After a failed attempt to get younger and go in a different direction in PP2, PP3 happily develops a plot line that makes sense for the aging singers. To me, this is way better than PP2. It has villains with talent (the Zombie performance was exceptional, loved the soldiers, etc.). It has boffo performances. They needed to do something different while going back to their roots. Happily, Steinfeld was marginalized as well. Overall, to me this worked well and the PP3 riff-off was a great one. Sure, nothing will match #1, but that's life.
What's next? Hopefully, nothing for awhile. The performers are longer in tooth. As cute as Anna Kendrick is, she doesn't look like a recent college grad any more. It's hard to keep finding ways to bring them back. The discussions in the movie of getting on with life made sense and imparted an air of finality.
If there's a PP4, it can be in 2030 with the stars mentoring a new cast and showing us where they wound up. But PP3 had a fitting "end of game" feel to it. Maybe sometimes "less is more," no matter how much you loved it. I get the sense that anything more now will just be mindless exploitation.