Rebel Wilsons Girl Group is one of the worst movies ever made

Rebel Wilson fails to revive her sputtering career with Girl Group, a female-fronted comedy that aims to tap into Pitch Perfect ’s fandom — even namedropping that movie directly.

But Wilson's latest will only have fans of Pitch Perfect singing the blues.

Written, directed, produced, and headlined by Wilson, Girl Group plays like Pitch Perfect meets The Mighty Ducks meets The House Bunny , but only if all of those movies were awful.

Wilson stars as Tassie Young, a reckless, washed-up former girl group star who's inexplicably tasked with being a mentor to a group of teen girls who have dreams of pop stardom.

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But Wilson favors a hasty first act that races through establishing her former band, Girlfriends, as private school besties who went from a school talent show to the top of the charts, only to be destroyed by Tassie's desire to go solo.

When her first album flops hard, she devolves into the party scene and anonymity.

But when the band announces a reunion tour some years later, Tassie is shocked to learn she's been replaced.

Her resulting tantrum leads to a DUI that lands her in court-mandated community service, which involves this absolute disaster of a human being tasked to mentor impressionable youth.

This all happens so quickly that it seems Wilson is bored by the story she herself wrote.

And that's just the first act.

This 96-minute movie is paced as if it's on a cocaine high, and it's just as coherent as that suggests.

Girl Group hastily introduces subplots around Tassie's proteges, their sisters, new bandmates, and a rival dance coach, while working towards a big girl group competition climax that's underwhelming instead of entertaining.

A plot so absurd and overcrowded might have worked if Girl Group played like a parody of showbiz movies. (Think Walk Hard .) But Wilson's clumsy and oblivious attempt to reclaim her reputation as a hilarious actress only proves she's an atrocious filmmaker.