DVD review: Pitch Perfect 3

Reviewed by: Samantha Keogh

Review made possible by: Empire Entertainment

Three years after the events of the second movie, the Bellas have graduated from college, but have jobs which they all hate.

Desperate to see each other again and reprise their glory (singing) days, Beca, Fat Amy, Chloe and the rest of the team are all thrilled to accept an invitation from Emily, now a senior at Barden and leader of the Barden Bellas, to reunite at an event in New York Aquarium where they think they will be singing.

Disappointed to find that the reunion does not include them singing, they gather at the bar to come up with a way to reunite the group one last time.

Aubrey convinces them to join a USO performance, assuring the Bella’s that her army officer father can get them an invitation to join the tour.

Four groups will compete during the tour for the opportunity to open for DJ Khaled.

While Stacie, who is eight months pregnant, stays home, the rest of the Bellas set off to entertain the troops.

Along the way, we learn more about Fat Amy’s family and her relationship with her father, Fergus, who is a ruthless international crime lord.

Beca finally accepts that to be great she must perform alone and the Bellas accept that they need to commit to their adult lives.

While the characters have matured into working women, they are still the same girls we met in the first movie. There is less singing in this movie than in the first two and far stronger storylines if the singing is not the only thing you are interested in.

Off stage, the Bellas manage to set a hotel suite on fire, get kidnapped and blow up a yacht.

Lily also starts speaking and reveals the reason for her silence, and that her name is Ester.

While many have criticised this film as not being true to the themes in the first two, I found this the most entertaining of the three owing, largely, to the non-singing storylines.