I adore Anna Kendrick. And I know I’m definitely not the only one. So throwing her in a comedy like Pitch Perfect simply rang all my bells.

Kendrick plays Beca who is a freshman at Barden University, where her father teaches. She doesn’t want to be there, but she has a deal with her dad. If she goes all in for one year, and she doesn’t want to continue, he’ll fund her wish to go to L.A. where she can try to break into the music industry as a producer and creator.

She has a talent for mashing up styles and genres, something that comes into play when she joins one of the university a capella groups, the Barden bellas. They’ve had some recent problems, and the leads, Chloe (Brittany Snow) and Aubrey (Anna Camp) want to get back on top, and reach the finals at the Lincoln Center.

With an eclectic group of singers, including Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) and Stacie (Alexis Knapp), Beca finds herself chafing against Aubrey’s leadership style, and plans. At the semi-finals she goes off-script and keeps the Bellas in the running, but has to convince the group that her mash-ups are the way to go.

Beca also has a toner (a musical boner) for Jesse (Skylar Astin) who is in one of the other university groups, the Treblemakers. The Bellas’ competition.

But she has to deal with letting others in, trusting herself, and trusting others.

There’s lots of laughs, and lots of great music. And lots of the always watchable Anna Kendrick who is able to be funny, vulnerable, sexy and entertaining all at once.

The music is great, the casting is completely on-point, Astin is able to go toe-to-toe with Kendrick and be equally funny and vulnerable. Adam Devine is goofy and annoying as Bumper the head of the guy group, and Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins are wonderfully funny as the commentators for the competitions.

It’s no surprise that the series spawned a couple of sequels (I’ll be following up on those soon), and sure they become diminishing returns, but the core cast remains the same in the Bellas, and fills out to include some equally talented performers.

Honestly, who would have thought a comedy about a capella groups would resonate, and yet it does, and the music they crank out is incredibly entertaining, and the mash-ups are wonderful.

Yeah, I’m a fan of the Bellas, and definitely a fan of the series. They are just fun and entertaining, and the music, the music is solidly adapted for the Bellas vocal performances.