Pitch Perfect

Pitch Perfect follows freshman Beca (Anna Kendrick) as she reluctantly starts out at college instead of following her music-producing-life-dream. Pretty sweet with the disc jockey skills and owner to a strong singing voice, Beca is convinced to join the college's all-female a capella group. Beca meets colorful characters as she is introduced into the a capella world, including the hilarious Fat Amy, played by Australian Rebel Wilson. The female group The Bellas work hard singing and dancing in hope of winning the national a capella competition.
Highlights of the film include Rebel Wilson in her outrageously funny supporting role, which receives 90% of the laughs. Elizabeth Banks pops up as one of the competition commentators in a deliciously funny role. The music and singing is also one of the highlights, but considering it is a musical, it's not overly surprising. (If A TV show, Glee, can do it every week, surely a Hollywood film can?)
Unfortunately that sums up the only highlights of the film; the comedy and the singing. The story, or lack there of, is terribly unoriginal and on the verge of boring. The constant jokes are used to distract the audience from the nonexistent and unpolished story.  Anna Kendrick has barely anything to work with and is a dull protagonist despite being a talented actress.
Pitch Perfect has been labelled Mean Girls meets Glee but unfortunately it lacks the originality and heart of both.
2.5 out of 5 stars.