Hugest rec ever!

[kate]

Pitch Perfect. Seriously.

I haven't seen Bridesmaids yet, but I've been recced it so highly; I keep meaning to check it out because it's been recced by people I trust. All the reasons that people are reccing that? They're the reasons I'm reccing this. (Great friendships between women, the romance is not sappy and not front and center, speaking of front and center, a collection of truly wonderful supporting lady characters, and then, THERE'S MUSIC. AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING MUSIC.)

I bought it in my hotel room last night (I get a free movie as a perk, no worries), and not only did I watch it all the way through gleefully, I immediately recced it to meghanc, rewound it to the beginning and watched it again with her.

So amazing. I was up until 5am last night (writing pinch hits, too, not just the movie, though that made it awesome) and I don't mind at all. SO. GOOD.

Comments

[msilverstar]

Do you think my 12-year-old would like Pitch Perfect? We're relaxed about her in regards to cursing, some violence, or seeing reasonably positive sexual innuendo, though she and I both hate long stretches of embarrassment humor. We're making it through Buffy by talking over the really bad bits.

[kate]

I would say yes. Mostly it's not a lot of embarrassment humor - it's more... the women owning their "embarrassing" parts - like, Fat Amy is AMAZING and she is never denigrated for being fat, and she has a hugely positive outlook that is very cool. There's some suggestive dancing and innuendo, but nothing remotely steamy (there's a big kiss at the end) and the relationship stuff is actually relationship stuff. Also, a fairly reasonably drawn relationship with her dad, which is nice.

I would say if you're comfortable with going through any parts overtly about sex (there's one girl who really likes sex, and they discuss it openly a few times, and sing about it), it should be okay. There's some really amazing musical numbers, so if she likes music, especially current popular music, that part will be really awesome.

[msilverstar]

It would be hypocritical of me to write porn and then get all squirmy about my kid knowing about sex (it helps that she's my second too). She loves musicals, a modern one will be cool!

[meghanc]

For whatever it's worth, I'm planning to watch Pitch Perfect with my ten year old Friday afternoon when winter break starts. The sexual stuff is much milder than the sex stuff in Buffy--it's all off-screen, sometimes alluded to but never shown. It's all pretty sex-pos.

There's some casual (presumably underage) drinking, one scene of fairly comic violence (it does include a man being kicked in the balls--but in fairness, he tells someone to kick him in the balls, trying to start a fight), and a couple short bursts of embarrassment humor...but it's done in a way that, to me, didn't feel gross. I didn't feel, much, like we were laughing at them, if that helps at all. There's also some vomit humor, but it was over the top enough that I wasn't terribly grossed out.

All that said, if you're doing OK with Buffy, I think Pitch Perfect would be just fine.

[msilverstar]

thanks!