Do NOT watch this if you want to keep your good memories from the first 2 movies.

Rating: 4/10 (24 May 2020)

Everything about this movie felt off from the first 2, which I enjoyed so much more. The music and vocals were great, but didn't experiment anything new and they chose the safe option of just reading through popular pop lyrics. I feel like it would probably be easier if I just list all the issues I had with this movie:

Strange/non-existent plot which had utterly pointless development. We feel little to no motivation to root for the Bellas in this new boring competition. We go from The Bellas reuniting, to another "competition", to somehow Fat Amy's Druglord father showing up out of nowhere. It wasn't so much the random story that got me, it was how off this movie felt to the first two. I mean I'm pretty sure the cook dies on the yacht in this movie, Fat Amy is just some professional assassin who can take out multiple muscular men and heartlessly explodes the boat, probably killing a few people. I mean, when did murder and kidnapping become part of Pitch Perfect?
Secondly, WHY DJ Khaled?? I could think of a million other artists (if you can even class a guy who just yells his name in every song an artist), who would have absolutely demolished his performance and make the movie more convincing. I really felt like Khaled must have been the one who payed the producers to get this role, because he was just treated like a god in the story, like he was royalty who doesn't care about the lower singers and he plays some piano as if his skills and privileges are unmatched. DJ Khaled is like James Corden, he's in a few odd movies, his presence doesn't really fit the context, and every time we see him the movie automatically feels terrible. Imagine someone like Adam Levine in Khaled's role!
The movie had almost no development. In the first 2 movies, part of their success was through the process of 'rising up' and 'finding yourselves', which the Bellas had to overcome together. In this movie, they sing, they sing again, and again; there's no practicing we see, they just know a bunch of songs and seemingly sing on the spot when the time comes. On top of this, it turns out that The All-Powerful and Knowing DJ Khaled never cared about that stuff anyway, because he can just "feel" Becca's unlimited potential by listening to a few recordings and mashups she makes while in his hotel room. Who cares about all the other talented bands there right?
The Songs were a little boring to me. The vocals, don't get me wrong, were 10/10, but I didn't feel the same improvisational lyrics the other 2 movies conveyed so well. It was super generic, they didn't try anything new the last movies did, they basically just sang popular pop songs together. They even sung the Exact same song 'Toxic' twice which I really don't understand the point of.

I could really go on but I feel those were my main issues. All in all, it could have been worse, but I really wouldn't watch this movie if you enjoyed the first 2, because it will ruin your good perception of the characters and storyline. This movie was unnecessary, had little development and almost no plot. It felt cheap, didn't have many funny jokes, and was a really poor and disappointing end to the Pitch Perfect movies.