Two years after Anna Kendrick won her best supporting actress Oscar in Up In The Air, Kendrick headlined this acapella based movie to near perfection. With plenty of great singing voices and what appears to be a deliberate attempt to avoid the traditional storyline of the popular drama outline and romantic relationships, along with good casting, there is a refreshing, and more than an original note in the air about this movie. Nevertheless, there is a discordant note with the inclusion of perhaps unnecessary grossness in several scenes due to perhaps the comparative inexperience of the director as well as an underdeveloped DJ career that Kendrick's character sought instead of the more polished but subtle 2006 Devil Wears Prada version. What also stands out is the atypical avoidance of scanty female costumes often used to capture the more sensual attention of viewers instead allowing the strength of the vocals to rightly take main stage. A great, if not quite perfect, light and serious musical drama.
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