Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) on Netflix
An onstage mishap at the Kennedy Center gets the Barden Bellas suspended, so Beca Mitchell makes a deal: win the A Cappella World Championship. Das Sound Machine stands in the way.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb6.4/10181,928 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes66%
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Plot summary
The Barden Bellas have taken the ICCA national title three years in a row, led by senior Beca Mitchell and Chloe Beale, a three-time super senior. At a command performance for President Barack Obama's birthday at the Kennedy Center, Fat Amy rips her pants onstage, and the resulting scandal leaves the group suspended. Beca works out a deal: the Bellas can be reinstated if they win the A Cappella World Championship, which no American team has ever taken. Freshman Emily Junk, whose mother Katherine once sang with the Bellas, arrives at the sorority house and performs a song she has written, and the group invites her in. Das Sound Machine, the German group led by Kommissar and Pieter Krämer, has replaced the Bellas on the victory tour and is favored at the Worlds.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
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- The film grossed $287.5 million worldwide, surpassing the total gross of the original film, $115.4 million, in five days, and became the highest-grossing musical comedy film of all time, overtaking School of Rock and its $131.3 million.
- Its $69.2 million opening weekend was more than the entire United States and Canada gross of the first film, the third biggest PG-13 comedy opening of all time behind The Simpsons Movie and Austin Powers in Goldmember, and the highest ever for a musical; the audience was 75% female.
- The Green Bay Packers players were cast after David Bakhtiari reached out to Banks on Twitter, conveying how much his teammates enjoyed the first Pitch Perfect and telling her they would be willing to do almost anything for a part in the movie.
- The Packers players were cast as a competing acapella group called "The Green Bay Packers" singing "Bootylicious", and they performed their own choreography and recorded their actual vocals, ultimately landing on the movie's album.
- The Filharmonic from season 4 of The Sing Off made a cameo as a rival group from the Philippines, and Penn Masala, the all-male Hindi a cappella group from director Elizabeth Banks' and producer Max Handelman's alma mater The University of Pennsylvania, featured as a team from South Asia.
- Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $139.6 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues for the film.
