Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices.
Director: Trish Sie
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, John Lithgow.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4765284/
46 songs in the Soundtracks.
Prior:
Pitch Perfect (2012), 6
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), 6
Plot: the group reunites by invitation, thinking they are being asked to perform. That disappointment leads to the brainstorm of going on a USO tour (one girl's dad is big in one of the services). AK just quit her job as a record producer when the artist hated her work. At least 4 other music acts are on the USO tour, and one of them is going to choose 1 of the others to be the opener for his big concert (tour?).
Meanwhile, RW's estranged dad JL catches up with her on this tour because he wants her 9-figure trust fund (she didn't know the value). They're estranged because he's a crook and RW wanted none of it.
So we get a riff-off between the bands (with the acapella group at a major disadvantage by sticking with their internal rules). We get USO performances in European cities (no scary war zones here). We get JL chasing RW and the girls to get her $$. And we get all the girls adapting to the idea that their choral days are waning (they graduated college in PP2) and they need to move on.
It felt like too much was going on, causing a lack of focus. Not that comedy needs to be simple, but ...
Rated 5.8 (42,999)
Universal & more, dir. Sie; 6-
