"Pitch Perfect 3" Teaser
Monday, June 26, 2017 at 9:00PM 
Chris here. Are you ready for another acapella round of pop mashups and "pitch" puns? Anna Kendrick and the rest of the Barden Bellas will be back for a third trip to the stage for this Christmas's Pitch Perfect 3. And we just got out first glimpse of what fun is in store with a first teaser trailer.
Except this trailer looks very little like what we've loved in the past. Instead of musical numbers, we get hints of action sequences and icky jokes at timeliness like Rebel Wilson in a "Make American Eat Again" hat - looks like we might be headed for the pitfalls of "a sequel means we must go bigger" syndrome. Where is the charm? Where is the heart? Where are the TUNES?
Perhaps worst of all, it looks like they will be sidelining Hailee Steinfeld after her young songwriter livened up the second installment with the pop ballad "Flashlight" - I guess the Bellas are back to preexisting music full stop based on what their competition says about them in this trailer. Or maybe the film will just be reliving its global plot points from that last go around.
You can't blame the film for not spoiling the chosen tracks just yet and since that's a major part of the joy of these films, we'll hold out on a full Yes No Maybe So treatment. But needless to say this first look is... suspicious. Have a look for yourself and tell us your thoughts. Also: what musical artist would you like to see the group cover this time?
Reader Comments (4)
This recycles every imaginable cliche. No.
If we need a third one of these, I wish Jenji Kohan were writing it.
Based on how much I enjoyed the first two films I'm going to watch it. Plus, my love of these ladies pushes that even further. Even if it isn't as good as the other two I will probably still have fun watching it.
Count me as someone who would be happy to see Hailee Steinfeld sidelined. I thought her character was the worst part of the sequel, and that ballad, incredibly lame. The sequel's best sequence was the training camp run by Anna Camp, which just allowed the original cast to be together on screen. That's the element that was so charming about the first film (as well as some really great a capella music), that was kind of discarded in the second. I did laugh a few times at the trailer, and I will definitely see this in theaters, but my expectations are, shall we say, measured