10 Movies Everyone Skips In A Franchise
4. Pitch Perfect 3
Given the consistency of the first two Pitch Perfect movies, which largely clung to a simple but charming musical-comedy formula, there was no reason to expect any different from the third. But Pitch Perfect 3 screenwriters Kay Cannon and Mike White evidently wanted to try something new, by unexpectedly pivoting the threequel into a spy movie parody later on, as Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) stands off against her criminal father (John Lithgow).
It's a head-scratching creative choice that categorically doesn't work, and even the meat-and-potatoes musical elements feel like a damp echo of the series' prior efforts - almost as if the filmmakers had lost interest in the franchise's very conceit by this point.
The cast still try their damnedest to elevate it all, but Pitch Perfect 3 is nowhere near as funny, peppy, or catchy as its two predecessors, enough that you're better off just stopping after number two.