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Sep 27, 201290A comedy about an all-female collegiate a cappella group. And to paraphrase one of the characters in the movie, it's A-Ca-Awesome.
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67All told, Pitch Perfect isn't all that good – but it's an awfully good sport.
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63The college singing-group comedy Pitch Perfect isn't dumb, but Kendrick's participation implies that it might also be smart. And sometimes it is.
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90Rebel Wilson is the peroxided Aussi who stole scenes as Kristen Wiig's roommate in "Bridesmaids," and this is the role that will turn her into a star.
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50The Higgins performance owes more than a little to Fred Willard's unforgettable dog show commentary in "Best in Show," but it was clear that Willard was part of a telecast.
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80It's the kind of silly you can only get away with when your writing is very smart. A little bit odd and very, very funny.
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67Without the music, the movie might have been painful, but the songs, Auto-Tuned and processed as they are, generate a hooky bliss. They're the chewy center of this ultra-synthetic hard candy.
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60What helps offset the predictable in this very predictable movie is a series of show-stopping numbers, so props to the folks who oversaw music and choreography. But the true saving grace is a few of the central players.
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75Impossible not to like.
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60The music, of course, is the engine that makes the whole exercise go, tapping into a genre-spanning collection of tunes, but every bit as important to the film's success is its unexpected humor, which flirts with raunchy but stops juuuust short of crossing any lines that would have earned it an R rating.
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60How you respond to Pitch Perfect will depend primarily on how you feel about its obvious inspirations: "Glee," "Bring It On" and the food-poisoning scene from "Bridesmaids."
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70She has the perfect nervy, nerdy, needy alter ego in Anna Kendrick.
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88Bouncy vocal rearrangements of pop songs, sparkling choreography and a hilarious script make for a movie that's made to be obsessed over, seen 50 times, quoted as devoutly as such sacred texts as "Heathers" and "Bring It On."
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Sep 28, 201280One of the finest sequences is a "riff-off" between the boys and the girls, a West Side Story-style showdown that plays out with shards of songs instead of switchblades.
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63I smiled for the first half of the movie and started laughing hysterically when a supporting character hijacked it from its stars.
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Sep 28, 201267What we have is a not-very-funny college comedy for tweens, full of unappealing characters and, although the musical arrangements are fun, some truly unimaginative choreography.
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50Pitch Perfect looks, sounds, and feels like pretty much every other movie that features a singing or dancing competition.
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63Kendrick is terrific, taking a role that could have slid by on snide and building it into something uniquely funny and touching.
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75Any movie that features a character calling herself Fat Amy has a pretty firm grip on irony. It helps that Fat Amy is played by Rebel Wilson ("Bachelorette," "Bridesmaids"), my favorite eccentric Aussie practitioner of lip-curled comic timing.
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50Jason Moore's film is more or less successful in inverse proportion to the degree that it plays its material by the book.
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75The campus comedy Pitch Perfect harmonizes high-end performance with low-brow spoofery. It's like a National Lampoon parody where the targets write the jokes.
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50Theoretically, the "Bring It On" model can be applied to any remotely performative art. All it takes is a certain level of sass, some eye-catching performance showcases, and a plot where a talented outsider livens up a moribund group with some fresh ideas. Pitch Perfect slaps that stencil onto college a cappella singing groups, with a smattering of success.
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Sep 28, 201275Pitch Perfect pitches itself between "Bridesmaids" and "Glee," which is to say it celebrates the low-down raunchiness of girls being girls among girls, while delivering a snap-crackle-and-pop music catharsis. Yes, folks, rock is dead, but long live showbiz.
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80The soundtrack's ironic bent might dissuade older viewers (Simple Minds are venerated), but they'd be missing out on one of the best musical comedies since A Mighty Wind. The song's the same, but Pitch Perfect is a great cover version.
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70Pitch Perfect is an enjoyably snarky campus romp that's both wildly nerdy and somewhat sexy.
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40Only occasionally funny and not at all illuminating about the rich world of a cappella singing.
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83The script finishes up exactly where you think it will, but along the way, there are enough surprises and perfectly delivered lines to make it a blast.
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80A spirited, irreverent and hugely fun comedy.
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60This film could have done with a few more mouth beats and unlikely moments of extracurricular celebrity.
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Nov 25, 201260Gleeks and Glee-haters alike should rally around this raucous musical comedy. Rebel Wilson is hilarious, Anna Kendrick is terrific and there are as many gross-out gags as there are singing numbers.
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75The spirited a cappella singing in Pitch Perfect makes a predictable, feather-light coming-of-age film irresistibly fun.
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70As spirited and irresistible as the college a cappella craze it celebrates, Pitch Perfect is a cheeky delight.
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75For the most part, it works brilliantly.
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6Perfect Pitch is not a great movie .. but it is entertaining.
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5This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.