Charm is a delicate commodity, especially when you're grinding it between the millstones of high camp and naked sincerity. In 2012, the celebration/spoof of a cappella college groups Pitch Perfect managed to preserve it, thanks mostly to the light touch of star Anna Kendrick. But the grim arithmetic of sequels demands more of what worked the first time: more camp, more sincerity. Charm doesn't stand a chance. Crassness, on the other hand, holds up nicely. Some of it is gleefully offensive, some of it is funny, some of it is boringly gratuitous. Whatever: you may be too numb from the moreness to notice much. Anyway, in this installment, the Barden Bellas get booted thanks to a wardrobe malfunction, and must find a way to win their way back in at the World Championships. Narrative logic would suggest that they get some help from the new girl (the film seems largely uninterested in most of the originals), but, but...she writes her own songs! (2015) — Matthew Lickona
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