Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)

This was a good, flawed and incomplete film.
Adulting is hard and no one knows it more than the Bellas. Beca (Anna Kendrick) has what many would consider a dream job; she's a music producer but her client list is poor and they won't take her advice. So she quits. The others are having just as many struggles: Chloe (Brittany Snow) is struggling to get into vet school, Cynthia Rose (Ester Dean) isn't doing well in flight school and Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) refuses to get a real job.
So they jump at the chance to Aubrey (Anna Camp) takes to sing for the troops overseas. However, Stacie (Alexis Knapp) will not be joining them as she about to give birth and she doesn't know who the father is nor does she appear to care.
And then, things get interesting. Fat Amy's father, a massive criminal is back and wants to mend fences. Is there anything John Lithgow can't do? He really is great, but he's as bad as he is and he does get arrested after kidnapping the Bellas to get to Amy, how come he isn't arrested earlier as he tries to win Amy back? That makes no sense and is the biggest plot hole in the film by a mile.
Still, the action is interesting and is is nice to Rebel in action and she's great. The songs are great, especially the showstopper at the end. The characters do grow. Beca is the one chosen to open for DJ Khaled, instead of the Bellas or any of the other groups also entertaining for the troops and the rest of the Bellas are happy for her. Beca really is the most talented of them all.
Unfortunately, there are just plenty of problems with this film, including most of the underdeveloped love stories. Chloe is finally given a worthy love interested in Chicago (Matt Lanter) a soldier who escorts the Bellas around Europe. You never find out his real name, which is unfortunate. And Lilly (Hana Mae Lee) likes someone in another group and after being freed from the kidnapping, she talks like a normal person. The worst one is Beca's new love interest. That's right, she and Jesse (Skylar Aston) are through, which is a shame as they were rock solid in Pitch Perfect 2. Instead, her new love interest is Theo (Guy Burnet), a producer for DJ Khaled and there is little flirting between them, more like love at first sight for Theo while Beca isn't sure of the feelings between them.
Given that this is the last Pitch Perfect film, I wish they would have tied things up better and given the characters the happy endings they deserve.
Still, the music is great and singing is better than ever and the acting is great, though it was always solid and this film did give them some good material, too bad it wasn't enough to make this film truly memorable and launch the careers of the actresses who, like their characters, the wings to fly and move on. I will watch this film again but I can't help but wonder, what could have been? Grade: B-