I can sorta see what you mean. I agree about the music; I preferred it in the first one. Well, I dunno. While watching it, I felt like they relied too much on Fat Amy and the judges for comedy, instead of their more subtle roles in the previous film which, in my opinion, they were funnier in. I found the Bumper/Fat Amy thing awkward, and I didn't warm to the new girl. Beca's internship seemed unresolved and out of place, and I found none of the intern stuff funny, even though it was clearly meant to be. And Snoop Dogg's appearance wasn't funny either... It was just awkward.

The riff-off was a little weird, and went the same way as the last movie's--they nearly win but then their rivals do instead. I did love how Beca was intimidated by the frontwoman from Das Sound Machine. xD It made me laugh every time she accidentally complimented her. But yeah, a lot of the movie seemed more forced, whereas the first one, I found, was free and funny, and wasn't trying to be anything but itself. I think they really tried to push this one to beat its predecessor, but to my eyes, it failed.