Pitch Perfect 3

I loved Pitch Perfect and I liked Pitch Perfect 2.  I had so much fun watching both of them with my niece so I decided we should finish the trilogy together and see Pitch Perfect 3 despite the fact that the trailer looked terrible and the reviews were abysmal.  I love hanging out with my niece so it wasn't a wasted afternoon but, you guys, this movie is aca-awful!  The former Barden Bellas have not adjusted well to life in the real world and want another chance to sing together.  They get an opportunity to perform as part of a USO tour of Europe with other bands (not a cappella groups, by the way) who are each competing to be the opening act for DJ Khaled (playing himself).   What will happen to the group when DJ Khaled only wants to sign Becca (Anna Kendrick) without the other girls?  Do we even care?  All of the other girls (except for Fat Amy - more on her later) have been relegated to cameo roles so it hardly matters how they feel about this. Everything that was fun about the first movie feels so contrived in this one.  We have the inevitable riff-off with the other bands on tour, we have a few love interests (a soldier assigned to protect the girls played by Matt Lanter and DJ Khaled's producer played by Guy Burnet) which seem to go nowhere, and we even have John (John Michael Higgins) and Gail (Elizabeth Banks) following them around making a documentary about the Bellas.  Add to this an inexplicable plot involving a reunion between Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) and her absentee father (John Lithgow) who kidnaps the Bellas to gain control of her heretofore unknown million dollar trust fund.  Fat Amy becomes an action hero saving the girls from an exploding yacht.  No!  Just no!  Lithgow is absolutely horrible in this role and, as far as I am concerned, Australia should lodge a formal complaint over his accent.  DJ Khaled isn't much better.  In fact, at one point Tashena leaned over and said, "You can tell he isn't an actor!"  All of this might be forgivable if the songs are fun but most of them use instruments which kind of defeats the whole point of the movie.  Ugh!  You know the movie is bad when your niece tells you that she had fun any way!  Give this a miss!