We found ourselves watching a movie last night and it was so
excruciatingly bad we couldn’t take our eyes off it. It was called Pitch Perfect and I hesitate to
recommend it to anyone; however, there were some solid gold moments which saved
the day.
It’s one of those spoof movies like Spinal Tap and Best in
Show, which, in this case, sends up the American tradition of college a cappella
groups. There was the tension between boys’
groups and girls’ groups, and between the traditionalist and the more modern
approaches. It was tacky and full of offensive
language, but it wasgood fun too.
The surprising thing was that one of the best characters was
Fat Amy, played by Rebel Wilson, an Australian who is, apparently, going
gang-busters in America. She hosted the
MTV Awards this year and won two Golden Popcorn statues (I can’t believe I wrote
that sentence!)
At the audition for the a cappella group, she claimed to be
the best singer in Tasmania, which is
not funny at all.
The music in the show was fabulous and we even enjoyed the
performance of a group called Sock-appella, which performed their song with
hand puppets.
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