Sorry, ladies, but it’s high time the Bellas left the stage: Pitch Perfect 3 is decidedly imperfect, writes BRIAN VINER

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Moreover, even in the last film a little Rebel Wilson went a long way. Here, there’s way, way too much of her, indeed she pretty much takes over from Anna Kendrick as the main character, which counts as a major misjudgment on somebody’s part.

Wilson is a charismatic performer, undoubtedly, but her steady supply of off-colour one-liners somehow suck the charm out of the exercise.

As for the story, the champion a cappella singing group, the Bellas, have now left college and are all trying, with varying degrees of failure, to make their way in the world. Fat Amy (Wilson) is developing a tribute act called Fat Amy Winehouse, which is no funnier on paper than it is on screen.

Then they get a chance to re-form at a U.S. military base in Spain. The competitive element is reintroduced by a famous DJ, looking for someone to open his show.

Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins again play the duo willing the Bellas to fail, but dramatically feel entirely superfluous.

And John Lithgow pops up with an almost-credible Australian accent playing Fat Amy’s rascally, estranged father, whose nefarious schemes eventually explain the film’s opening scene: an explosion on a super-yacht.

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