"No. Never."
The prospect of this teen-girl-chick-flick with Glee thrown in was not a promising one, but Pitch Perfect turns out to be a surprisingly enjoyable movie. The humour is unusually spiky and adult at times, and the emotional beats come affectingly from character and often with unexpected results rather than necessary formula narrative plotting. The whole a cappella angle is tolerable, mainly owing to some wicked bubble-bursting by Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins as hilariously non-self-aware competition commentators, and the ensemble (led by the delightful Anna Kendrick) is an entertaining mix of stereotypes whose journey through the movie plays well.
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