10 Terrible Threequels That Ruined A GREAT Trilogy

Pitch Perfect is one of those franchises nobody really saw coming - the original musical comedy was an unexpected delight that found a perfect niche for itself by exploring the bizarre subculture of competitive a cappella.

The first sequel managed to recapture the same glory courtesy of its likeable cast, quirky sense of humour, and banger music selection, but Pitch Perfect 3 went and made a deeply misguided genre-busting pivot.

While it was theoretically admirable for the third film to not simply rehash the series' prior successes, was anyone angling for this threequel to turn into a spy movie parody totally out of nowhere?

And even if the peculiar divergence into action-comedy territory somehow worked against the odds, the songs and villains are both considerably weaker than those of the prior films, ending this otherwise pep-filled trilogy on a sour bum note.

It is a classic "nobody asked for this" sequel, and a sure-fire instance where just repeating what worked the first two times would've been the smart way to go.