Pitch Perfect 2012

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: You leave it wanting to sing and dance. Read more

Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: "Pitch Perfect" is major key all the way, a blast of tuneful sugary cheer kicked up with enough tart humor to offset the glucose. Read more

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: ...it never ends up being anything like a fully realized version of any of the movies it's lifting its jokes and/or tones from. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Not quite pitch perfect, but it's irresistible. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: The movie is far too aware of its influences, especially when it imitates Bring It On's silly "cheerocracy"-style slang with its own overextended series of aca-neologisms. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: To paraphrase one of the characters in the movie, it's A-Ca-Awesome. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The throwaway lines in Kay Cannon's script are so many and so expertly deployed that you basically spend the whole movie digging through the trash. Read more

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: Pitch Perfect proves no one is too cool for the perfect pop song. Read more

Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: The musical numbers, however, are quite good, if only because they're so disjointed from the narrative. Read more

Adam Graham, Detroit News: "Pitch Perfect" doesn't take itself any more seriously than it has to, and has plenty of fun both sending up and celebrating its subject matter. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Without the music, the movie might have been painful, but the songs, Auto-Tuned and processed as they are, generate a hooky bliss. They're the chewy center of this ultra-synthetic hard candy. Read more

William Goss, Film.com: Far more often than not, Pitch Perfect lives up to its own title. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: An enjoyably snarky campus romp that's both wildly nerdy and somewhat sexy. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: What helps offset the predictable in this very predictable movie is a series of show-stopping numbers, so props to the folks who oversaw music and choreography. But the true saving grace is a few of the central players. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: If you're not grinning by the end of this light, funny crowd-pleaser, consider yourself tone deaf. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Though likable and energetic, the movie is so eager to put a finger on every pulse that it loses the rhythm. Read more

Bruce Diones, New Yorker: Warblers win the day in this sweet-natured film (based on a swell behind-the-scenes book by Mickey Rapkin) about the life and loves of collegians from competing a-cappella groups. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: What we have here is a not-very-funny college comedy for tweens, full of unappealing characters (and although the musical arrangements are fun, some truly unimaginative choreography). Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, NPR: It moves at a clip, a sprightly relay race between a dozen or so mellifluous performers. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: [It] could have used a little more spontaneous spirit and a little less manufactured sass. What it has going for it, though, is an amiably enthusiastic cast. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: A movie that's made to be obsessed over, seen 50 times, quoted as devoutly as such sacred texts as "Heathers" and "Bring It On." Read more

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: Only occasionally funny and not at all illuminating about the rich world of a cappella singing. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: I smiled for the first half of the movie and started laughing hysterically when a supporting character hijacked it from its stars. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Pitch Perfect looks, sounds, and feels like pretty much every other movie that features a singing or dancing competition. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: This is one of the strangest and also one of the more entertaining movies of the year. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's a twentysomething song-and-dance movie built around rival a cappella groups. That's more exciting than dueling string quartets, I suppose - but no, the quartets would be performing better material. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: I got a goofball kick out of Pitch Perfect. Anna Kendrick is terrific in this spoofy, sassy romp. And I have one word for Rebel Wilson - Wow! Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: It's ridiculous and predictable but also just a ton of fun, so you may as well give up and give in to your inner musical theater geek. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Belatedly riffing on the TV series "Glee" might have produced some sour notes, but "Pitch Perfect" finds just the right tone. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Globe and Mail: A let's-put-on-a-show story so steeped in backlot Hollywood convention it almost embarrasses itself, with the difference being it really doesn't care. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Luckily, the good outweighs the bad in this bright 'n' breezy comedy about competitive a cappella singing groups. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: The very appealing cast (led by ingenue superstar Anna Kendrick) and an overall sense of buoyant silliness advances it to the top of the class. Read more

Cath Clarke, Time Out: '30 Rock' and 'New Girl' writer Kay Cannon has created brilliant characters. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: This film could have done with a few more mouth beats and unlikely moments of extracurricular celebrity. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: The spirited a cappella singing in Pitch Perfect makes a predictable, feather-light coming-of-age film irresistibly fun. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: As spirited and irresistible as the college a cappella craze it celebrates, Pitch Perfect is a cheeky delight. Read more

Laura Beck, Village Voice: The girls, for the most part, are genuinely funny, weird, real, and, most excitingly, confident. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Cannon doesn't go in for rococo hipster badinage in the vein of Diablo Cody. She can pare down a joke to its essence ... Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: "Pitch Perfect" totally gets one critical fact: A cappella singing contests are both a little bit amazing and a little bit ridiculous. The tone that the film strikes is a perfect balance between the two extremes. Read more