Cinepals - PITCH PERFECT Movie Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: April 12, 2024

Jaby and Kristen react to Pitch Perfect, a musical comedy film directed by Jason Moore (Sisters, Avenue Q, Dumplin'). The story revolves around Beca Mitchell, played by Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air, Into the Woods, A Simple Favor), a college freshman who joins an a cappella group called the Barden Bellas. Alongside her fellow singers, including Chloe Beale, played by Brittany Snow (Hairspray, John Tucker Must Die, Prom Night), and Fat Amy, played by Rebel Wilson (Bridesmaids, Isn't It Romantic, The Hustle), Beca navigates the challenges of competitive a cappella while forming lasting friendships. The film is directed by Jason Moore (Sisters, Avenue Q, Dumplin'), and also stars Skylar Astin (21 & Over, Ground Floor, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist), Adam DeVine (Workaholics, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, The Intern), and Anna Camp (True Blood, The Help, Good Girls Revolt).   Join our Patreon www.Patreon.com/JabyKoay for the full length reaction to this show and many others and subscribe to our YouTube channel for the cutdowns www.youtube.com/@cinepals   SOCIAL MEDIA ~CinePals~ Twitter, Instagram, & TikTok: @TheCinePals ~JABY KOAY~ Twitter & Instagram: @JabyKoay ~KRISTEN STEPHENSONPINO~ Instagram: @Kris10Kesp

Senna. Pals. What's going on, everybody? I am Jabby Kouye, joined by Kristen Steffin-Sompino. We are watching Pitch Perfect. I have not ever seen this. Kristen saw it a long, long, long time ago and does not remember it. And so it'll be like her first time watching it. And here we go. All right. What'd you think? What'd you think?

I enjoyed that. That was a lot of fun. I mean, I enjoyed that significantly more than. And I thought I would when I first heard about the movie. So, like, when it first was, like, you know, trailers and stuff like that, I'm like, yeah, there's no way I'm going to watch that. And for years, it char was like, you need to watch Pitch Perfect. I'm like, all right. I just never got around to it until today. Yeah, I enjoyed that.

That was a lot of fun. I had a lot of laughs that I was not expecting to have. Like, even when I wasn't laughing, I was smiling and my cheeks were hurting. I'm like, God, I'm getting tired from smiling so much. They managed to make me feel empathy for Anna Camp. Her character, the film perfectly crafted. to be hateable, to be so dislikable, I was just like, yo, like, she, she's just doing everything to make me not have any empathy for her whatsoever. And then with, like, one little line,

they managed to make me feel something for her, which is like, with the thing about her dad, which, where her father told her. He said, if you, if you first don't succeed, if at first you don't succeed, pack up and go home or something like that. It's just like, that's a really, that's some real tough love. And it all makes sense, you know, all of her behavior and why she does what she does. Even from the beginning, the girl that was in charge of her, remember how badly she just destroyed her before they went on. Oh, yeah, she tore her down spiritually. Yeah, I feel like because she was so sweet, and you can tell she's genuinely sweet, she just wants to do well. Yeah. I, yes, she was like, annoying, but I didn't really hate her or like dislike her. It was more like,

oh, you're just so annoying. You could still see the sweetness in her. Sure. I mean, that's just her genetics, I think, more than anything. No, no, it was her delivery. The delivery of her lines and like how she would smile, but then it was like she was just like, we're done, we're done. Yeah, see, I don't find that sweet. I find it patronizing. Because it's one of those things where

she's saying something awful while smiling at you. That's what made me hate her even more throughout the film. Go ahead. No, I just feel like Chloe and her, like, you know, I think Chloe sees the good in her. Chloe, I thought, was genuinely sweet. Whereas Aubrey was being superficially sweet. That's what

That's what bothered me about it. Okay, okay. Yeah. Rebel Wilson, I would imagine, was most people's favorite character in this movie. But I think that my favorite character might have been the Indian guy. The Indian guy was definitely my favorite. The Indian Eminem. Yes, I thought he was so cool.

Yeah. And then the magician. And Anna Kendrick caught me off guard. She caught me off guard because I wasn't expecting this character out of her, like I said early on. And she actually did a pretty decent job of playing the alternative chick who is won over by the circumstances by the end of the film. She, like, this thing she's been resisting and thought was, like, nerdy or whatever, or kind of hated. Eventually, it just, like, she's all in, you know? She did a really good job.

I thought that was cool. How did you feel about the guy who played her father, Anna Kendrick's father? I didn't really think much of him. Okay. I felt like he was a little bit forgettable, but... Okay. He was just in and out real quick. I didn't feel like he was that harsh as she portrayed him to relate to...

As the film wanted you to believe she was? Yes. Yeah. I felt like she was more of a brat, a brat of you. child more than anything. So that where she was like, oh, I can relate to you with my father or whatever. I didn't see that personally. Yeah. Because I thought the whole time he was just trying to be sweet and all we saw was her being a brat. Yeah. So I didn't think much of him. I guess this is the nicest way to put it. Like I just, it just, he stuck out in a bad way to me. But I wish there were

conversation when they had the one-on-one in the kitchen. I wish in that moment it made me feel something more. Yeah, I felt nothing with his scenes. Yeah, I didn't feel anything with that. One way or the other, I didn't feel anything with any of his scenes. Like, not good nor bad. It was just like, meh. What about Lily? I was triggered by her more than anything. I feel like I was too.

I was just so triggered because I get so irritated when I'm talking to a girl and I'm like, what? I have a guy that does that. I know one of my friends. I hope you see this. Love him to death. I'm like, what did you say? Open your mouth. I'm like, what did you say?

And I get so irritated and I'm like, why are you whispering? But it was something that like happened as time went on because when we like back in the day when we're younger, he didn't whisper. So I don't know what happened. All right. But anyways. Yeah. I can't stand that. It's like speak up.

They did this thing. I don't know if I'm going to get this phrase right, but the hanging a lantern I think is the phrase where it sort of calls out a thing as it's doing it to sort of justify what it's doing. Because the film is very self-aware. Yes. Like as it goes along, it's like. Like, well, you and I, you both know where this is headed. Like, we can both see the beats. But we're going to call it out, and you're going to get to have fun with us anyway.

And you're going to love it anyway. Yeah. And I thought the film did a nice job there. It would have been real epic if, like, the Breakfast Club, they were able to have more character arcs with everybody. But I think maybe with the amount of characters, it would have been too difficult. As a whole, I guess they kind of had a character arc, like the group collectively, because they came together in a way that they were definitely not at the beginning. And normally I struggle with so many different misfits sometimes in films. Yeah.

We have so many different types. But this one, I thought they did a really good job at combining them. Yeah. Where you actually liked them. Sure. You know what I mean? And then you started rooting for them. The film actually managed to get me to laugh at vomit at one point.

So that's a tall order. No, the only reason you laughed at that, though, is because you know that would be us going, ah! Like scratching our ways to the higher ground. It was so real. Well, it was treated like a horror movie because the way they were like going up into the bleachers, it's like an alligator came out. And I'm like, yo, that, I get that. And that's why it's hilarious.

I like that part too. You know, just the, but like the Asian chick kind of like doing the angel wings in. That was a no for me. Like what? The stuff with the roommate never went anywhere. It just stayed weird. Like a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff in this film, the way it starts is also the way it ends. And that's okay.

We got two more pitch-perfect movies, so there's room to grow. Yeah, I'm looking forward to the other two. I don't know if they're as good, but I'm looking forward to them. Remember when the spring break happens, she goes, happy spring break. Yes. So I guess maybe they sort of were cool with each other by that point. Yeah. I think they're right.

It's just, I still don't care about you, but happy, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I do wish that the record guy came a little bit more into play. Yeah, they introduced a lot of things. They planted so many seeds in the movie. I thought for sure he was going to kind of. come into the mix and then there's going to be like a little something nothing came up with him and i was

like oh man he just kind of nothing yeah because like the the thing with the for no reason he's you know what it is they just i think they cut a lot out of the movie like they had a lot of stuff and they're like okay even though these things aren't going to necessarily go anywhere this is a more streamlined story yeah that the most people will enjoy maybe it would have been like too much yeah it would have felt like too fat the movie's already at an hour and 50 minutes like think. So I think they just like they trimmed out every inch they could to get to this. So I understand it. Because like they set it up with the guy with the USB drive and he put it on top of the other USB drives. And I'm like, where is that going? And then out of nowhere he's playing

her music. I'm like, what motivated that? Why did he just start playing her music? There was really no reason to, especially when he was shitting on the a cappella thing because he said, I never took you for that. I wish there was something that like led up to him playing it. Yeah, nothing. There was nothing. And so that's a little bit confusing. And then afterwards, he just drops out of the competition between him and Jesse. It's like, that just went nowhere. So it was a little bit of a red herring. It was a little bit of a magic trick.

It's like, oh, you thought, but it just went away like magic. Yeah. So. Dude, at one point when those guys were singing, I was like, whoo, woo, woo, woo, like, they had me going. I was like, I'm like, how am I feeling this way with these, like, these nerdy guys? And you know, I'm like, here I am.

I'm in. I'm glad you mentioned that, actually, because the interesting thing about the enemy group is that you actually enjoyed them. Yeah. You know, that's not normal. Normally, like, I don't know. I would have expected to just totally dislike them, but because they were so good at what they were doing and they weren't

completely dislikable characters, you still enjoyed their performances. Fat Amy. Or Fat Patricia, yes. Fat Patricia, Fat Amy. Whatever you want to call her. She said her real name is Fat Patricia. I know. Yeah. What I like about her in this film is

no matter what, like, she's just like, I don't care. like it has to see i don't know i can relate to her just because there's not much that affects her right and there's not much that affects me yeah and i kind of have like this little bond with her first thing i'm like oh my gosh you're so funny you turn in you turn a situation that's kind of a bummer into something that's comical right yeah yeah but nothing like really gets faster so she she's just like okay what's next yeah and it's like that girl that you're just like yo i kind of want you on my team Yeah. Like,

I want to hang out of you're funny. The only thing I can think of in the film that came full circle was, well, there's two. Her DJing came into play with the singing because, like, they were mixing songs together. Yes. Like the way DJ might. I thought she might have been like, yo, play my track. Yeah, that's the expected thing. But I like how they turn it on us.

They switch. Like the music. Yeah, it became an a cappella thing rather than actual, like, digital stuff. Yeah. I thought that was actually pretty neat. Yeah. She became the DJ of their voices. Exactly.

Yeah, that was cool. The other thing that came full circle was the breakfast club. I love that. Yeah. So those are the only two things I can think of off the top of my head that actually came back around at the end. But at the end of the day, I had a good time. I laughed. I felt like I was part of the group for a little bit, you know, vicariously living through their lives.

I was happy when they came back together. The performances were awesome. And it was nice to see their evolution and becoming a more cohesive and better group with, like, excellent performance. and taking home the first place trophy by the end. It was fun. I enjoyed it. It was a nice, what do you call that? Just a little bit of escapism. Yeah.

So you guys, and surprise. You guys, thanks so much for hanging with us. I am Jabby Kouye. This is. Christmas of Spino. Peace out.