I wasn't expecting Pitch Perfect 2 to be as good as the original. It's just a shame that writer Kay Cannon could not come up with something a lot better. Last time she had the book by Mickey Rapkin to adapt, but she and the team failed to come up with something as entertaining and smart. Pitting the girls against an embarrassing Teutonic group was a really bad idea.
Tom Hardy doesn't have much to say as the lead in Mad Max: Fury Road, but he is pretty convincing as the hero of this sequel. Director George Miller has packed the screen with so much action and sound in this post-apocalyptic thriller that at the end I felt as if I had tagged along. A relentless big budget spectacle that at least has occasional quieter scenes for us to get our breath back. Charlize Theron is almost unrecognisable with her shaved head and is a great foil for Hardy.
After the shattering experience of the previous movie, I went in vain in search of something quieter and thoughtful. Instead all I got was San Andreas. This was the worst ensemble acting I have seen for a long time. The casting director must have been on holiday. They obviously went for actors who were the cheapest available, and it showed. They were done no favours by an awful script, even disaster movies of the past have at least tried. So how was the CGI? Just about OK and crucially saved the movie from a disaster of it's own.
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