Beca Mitchell’s journey from outcast to the Bella sisterhood was a storyline that was neatly threaded through each Pitch Perfect film. The Barden Bellas did not get off to the best start, but after learning how to work together to bring out the best in each of them, they became an unstoppable group with strong friendships.
As they spent more time together, they grew closer, even allowing the closed-off Beca to feel comfortable opening up. Their sisterhood is the most significant relationship in the trilogy, even during the numerous jokes about Jessica and Ashley’s place in the group. However, through all the laughs and acapella competitions, some details throughout the trilogy do not make sense.
Updated on July 26th, 2021 by Amanda Bruce: Though it’s been years since Pitch Perfect 3 hit theaters, fans still want more. Part of that is a result of wanting a resolution to some of the unanswered questions from the trilogy. Part of that is simply a desire to spend more time with the fun characters that populate the movies. No matter how fun the covers and the sisterhood of the Bellas are, however, fans are still left with plenty of confusion over several plot points.
13 No Other Bellas Go On The USO Tour
It’s made clear that the group of Barden Bellas attending the USO tour to compete for a chance to record an album are meant to be the “original” Bellas of the trilogy. Those who reunite for Pitch Perfect 3 are supposed to be the closest of the group. While that’s sweet, there hesitancy at Stacie not being able to attend and Emily being invited as an afterthought is a little odd.
Pitch Perfect 2, after all, demonstrates that there are dozens of former Bellas willing to perform at the drop of a hat. Emily also leads the new Bellas as she prepares to head off to law school. It’s strange for there to not be any discussion of any other Bellas joining them.
12 Chloe Takes A Russian Literature Class
Every movie is full of fun performances, but they’re also full of continuity errors. One of those is Chloe’s career path. Her choices for what she opts to pursue don’t make a whole lot of sense.
In Pitch Perfect 2, it’s made clear that Chloe isn’t entirely ready to move on from the Bellas. She intentionally fails her Russian literature class multiple times in order to delay graduating. Why is she taking a Russian literature class, and more importantly, why is it preventing her from graduating, are never addressed. It especially doesn’t make sense after Chloe says she wants to either be a kindergarten teacher or a dancer – neither of which would require that class. In Pitch Perfect 3, however, she’s become a veterinary assistant, something she would have required additional schooling for anyway!
11 Aubrey Claims To Hate Performing
Aubrey is the Bella most invested in performing and winning competitions in the first movie. In the second movie, despite having graduated, she’s brought back to help the Bellas find their sound. She implies that she misses performing with them, and she even returns for their big finish at the international competition.
In Pitch Perfect 3, Aubrey throws the other Bellas and the audience for a loop though. She reveals that she’s relieved when Beca wins the competition – not the Bellas as a whole – because she hates the pressure of performing. While it’s true that Aubrey doesn’t deal with pressure well in the earlier movies, her loosening up on stage in the first movie’s final mashup doesn’t seem to indicate that she hates performing at all, but the opposite.
10 Pitch Perfect 3 Is Part Action Movie
Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2 are about the Barden Bella’s aspirations to win an acapella competition. While Pitch Perfect 3 includes some of that storyline into the film, another part of the film makes it seem like an action movie. Amy’s father, Fergus, owns a large boat and kidnaps the Bellas to get Amy to see him.
While Beca leads the Bellas in a cover of Brittney Spears’ “Toxic,” Amy rushes around the boat, using various karate skills to defeat her father’s guards. The tone of the third installment does not work with the other two and makes the storyline feel out of place.
9 Amy’s Backstory
Pitch Perfect 3 gives a new perspective to Amy’s life by revealing her history with her father. However, this storyline does not coincide with what the audience already knows about Amy’s past. While the previous films never make the plot about Amy and Fergus to be completely false, it is not realistic within the context of the first two films.
The joke about not wishing to do cardio in Pitch Perfect does not make as much sense if she was raised on martial arts. While it does give more insight into Amy’s past, the subplot was too isolated from the rest of the trilogy’s storylines.
8 Lily/Ester’s Continuity
In Pitch Perfect, Lilly introduces herself as Lilly. Yet, in Pitch Perfect 3, she re-introduces herself to the Bellas as Ester. While her identity becomes a question, that is not the only continuity problem that the character faces. Throughout the first film, Lilly is a low speaker, talking in a whisper all the time.
At the end of the first film, she speaks at an average volume aloud and continues to use a louder voice. However, Lilly returns to using a soft voice in the next two films. At the end of the third film, she speaks up loudly again, revealing her name to be Ester and that Satan has left her body.
7 Chloe’s Nodes Voice
The Barden Bellas face a devastating blow when Chloe reveals she has Nodes. When the Bellas lose the competition, Chloe decides to have surgery to remove them. However, with the Bellas put back in the competition, Chloe must figure out how to use her voice differently.
After performing a new arrangement, Chloe’s voice gets very deep, enough to hit the low notes. During the competition in Pitch Perfect, Chloe’s deep voice is emphasized. However, in the following films, Chloe’s deeper voice has not been referenced again. The drama surrounding the storyline fell flat, considering it did not continue.
6 Beca’s Relationship With Her Parents
Coming to Barden University, Beca was not thrilled to be spending time with her father. Beca did not spend that much time with him until she had pushed many of her friends away. Things had been bad between Beca and her father since Dr. Mitchell had left Beca’s mother for the “Step-Monster.”
However, after Pitch Perfect, Dr. Mitchell disappears from the films, and there are no mentions of him. Additionally, it is not clear what type of relationship Beca had with her mother. Beca never mentions keeping in touch with either of her parents.
5 Pitch Perfect 2 World Championship
Other than the Barden Bellas and Das Sound Machine, every group during the World Champion Competition performs a rendition of “Any Way You Want It” by Journey. The song easily allows the viewers to get through multiple performances seamlessly, getting a taste of each group. While the song may be popular, it is not realistic that every group would choose to perform that song. Series like Glee show audiences how difficult it is for one group when another has exactly the same setlist in competition.
Since the Barden Bellas and Das Sound Machine do not use “Any Way You Want It” in their sets, it is understood that including the song was not a requirement. It would have been interesting to know how the judges responded to nearly every acapella group performing the same song.
4 The Announcers
John Smith and Gail Abernathy-McKadden filled the silence between performances with plenty of chatter and commentary. They had plenty to say about any group all the time. Their roles in the first two films kept them relatively separate from the rest of the main characters.
In Pitch Perfect 3, John and Gail are at the helm of a documentary about the Bellas, following them around. However, the thing about them that does not make any sense is that they speak during the performances. Whoever may be listening to the acapella competition or would like to hear the performers, likely has no interest in listening to John and Gail speak over the groups that are singing.
3 Jessica And Ashley
For a trilogy about sisterhood, Jessica and Ashley certainly got the short end of the stick. The girls have been around since the first film, eagerly auditioning for the acapella groups amongst Stacie, Cynthia Rose, and various others. While Jessica and Ashley are recruited to join the Barden Bellas, they do not get the same focus that the rest of the Bellas receive.
In Pitch Perfect 2, Beca admits that she does not know which of them is Jessica and which is Ashley. In Pitch Perfect 3, they directly state that no one could have referenced them in conversation. While they seem to be remembered in the content of the group, Jessica and Ashley tend to be background jokes in the franchise. The only Barden Bella to get worse treatment than Jessica and Ashley was Denise. Denise only appeared in the first film and then was forgotten in the following two films.
2 Benji And Bumper’s Disappearance
Benji and Bumper did not have to appear in Pitch Perfect 3, but there could have been a reference to what happened to them. The last time the boys were seen, it looked as if Benji and Emily were about to begin a relationship, and Bumper was hoping to participate on The Voice while continuing a relationship with Amy.
However, in Pitch Perfect 3, Amy briefly mentions that she and Bumper had broken up, and no one references Benji at all. Jesse Swanson got more acknowledgment for his breakup with Beca. Why did Beca and Jesse break up? Beca sites the long-distance relationship as the reason – and Jesse was now living in California with a new girlfriend and their cat.
1 What Type Of Solo Artist Is Beca
Pitch Perfect showcased Beca’s talents of mashing up songs in mixes she played for Jesse and the song composition she created for the Bellas. In Pitch Perfect 2, the film emphasized how anyone can do Beca’s most exceptional talent with a computer. The music producer wanted to hear something that came from Beca as a musician, something original.
However, Beca could not do that on her own and teamed up with Emily to create an original song. Pitch Perfect 3 emphasized Beca’s singing voice as a point of interest for Theo, who is DJ Khaled’s music producer. DJ Khaled and Theo share an interest in Beca as a musician by hearing her sing and the way she plays with the soundboard. However, the film does not go deep into what type of artist Beca would be as a solo act.
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