![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is no Oscar Winner, I am certain that I will see a dozen or so better movies this year, but none will having me laughing and smiling as much. Skylar Astin as the love interest is also terrific though he needs to change his name, because for me the name Skylar brings only one thing to mind and she is married to Walter White. Not that many people understand a cappella groups. Pitch Perfect creators knew they had to put a cappella on the map, with Pitch Perfect 2 director Elizabeth Banks telling NPR that the art form has an almost 'tribal nature' to it. Our name was The Dynamics, and we were ( and still are) pretty damn good. Group a cappella is arguably one of the most difficult singing styles, harmonizing simply with other members' voices and featuring no instrumental accompaniment. Speaking of Bridesmaids Rebel Wilson almost steals the show with every scene that she is involved with being hilarious, and in a lesser movie her scenes most certainly would be worth paying the price of admission alone, but there are so many other talents involved. 10 a cappella groups that are even better than Pitch Perfect. The Harvard Opportunes is one of the four groups to advance to the final stages of UpStaged National Collegiate Performing Arts A Cappella Championship. 10:00 AM Confession: I sang in an a cappella group in college. I am pretty confident that it is going to be the surprise box office hit of the fall and it is so much better than the films that it is bound to be compared to like Mean Girls, Bring it On, and even Bridesmaids. This film is really raunchy and just skirts around an R rating several times, but it is just so fun. I laughed like crazy and loved the a capella singing. I scored free tickets to a Denver Screening awhile back and was just going to have my wife and 13 year old daughter go, but I watched the trailer and really thought Anna Kendrick was terrific in 50/50 and very good in Up in the Air so I thought, what the heck, I'm going too. ![]()
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