The feature debut of a director best known for staging Broadway musicals, Pitch Perfect is a highly amusing campus comedy about two a cappella groups, one male, one female, making their way from first auditions at university to the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella finals at Lincoln Centre. It's 80% affectionate parody of this sort of musical, but the numbers are taken seriously and are admirably choreographed, and the performances are sprightly. Rebel Wilson as a Tasmanian student who styles herself Fat Amy and Anna Kendrick as the lively freshman are excellent, and John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks are a hilarious double act as the TV dance commentators.