"You guys are gonna get pitch-slapped so hard, your man boobs are gonna concave"
This
is one of the funniest film’s I’ve seen all year forget about whatever misconceptions
you may have about this film, it’s brilliant. It’s such a smart and funny film, the
comedy is layered so if you bring someone younger or more innocently minded
they won’t get all the little jokes especially the ones the presenters make and
has a great soundtrack, a typical chick flick this is not.
What
really made the film work in my opinion were the great cast; especially the
protagonist Becca (Anna Kendrick, one of my favourite young actresses) and the
standout comedian Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) who carries most if not all of the
films jokes. The characters seem real and believable and have depth which helps
you invest in their struggle and story. So the basic plot of the story is loner
girl, whose great at remixing songs wants to be a music producer, she goes to
college, reluctantly and then joins an all female a cappella group (The Bellas), makes friends
with the other members and gets a boyfriend, who joins the opposing all male a cappella group (Treble Makers). I’ll try and
keep this review spoiler free as I hope most of you will go see this in the
cinema, and guys don’t worry if your dragged along to this as a date movie it’s
actually really interesting and while it sounds like the set up for the kind of
film most guys would hate, I found myself really enjoying it.
Anna
Kendrick’s character of Becca seems like a very believable person, some people
will relate to her, but everyone will certainly understand her and why she is
the way she is. The love story never felt tacked on to me and felt like it
moved along at a natural pace, there’s no “I love you” after 2 days nonsense and
I suppose being awkward like Skylar Astin’s character Jesse, I was rooting for
him, oh and most impressively there’s no love triangle shoe horned in because it’s
the cool thing to do in teen drama’s. The internal conflicts in The Bella’s are
also very grounded and while they can sometimes be blown up for the plot’s sake
they come from a real place and it never felt like conflict for conflict’s
sake. Fat Amy is the standout character in this film by a mile, you can just
tell Rebel Wilson is having so much fun in this role and in a way she’s the
films de facto narrator at least in the scenes she’s in, I hope this girl gets
an Oscar nomination for this role, but I’m certain she’ll win a few MTV awards
and other people choice style awards.
The
soundtrack was not just pretty good, it was downright awesome. Normally with
these Glee/Step Up type films there’s one really good some and the rest is just
filler which always affects you losing yourself in the movie, well not here.
The songs are all current and most if not all have been in the top 30 this
year, there are a few songs mainly the ones the groups sung by the group that
are Glee-esque but their there for a specific reason so they get a pass.
If
your still on the fence about seeing this movie I’d recommend giving it a
chance, like I said bring your girlfriend or sister or go with a group of
friends, you won’t be disappointed. So wrapping things up I’d give this movie a
solid 8/10, it’s not going to win the Oscar for best picture, but it will win a
load of viewer’s choice awards like MTV’s so go and enjoy yourself.
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