On April 15, 2013 Pitch Perfect cast member, Rebel Wilson ventured out of Australia to host this year’s MTV movie awards. Since Rebel played the character of, Fat Amy, in the comedy, Pitch Perfect in 2012, Rebel Wilson has become quite popular for her sense of humor. Many people enjoyed her as the hostess as well as her vocal performance of the Climb, with some of her fellow cast members.
This year’s MTV Movie Awards had some big stars winning awards. Rebel Wilson was not only the host but her movie, Pitch Perfect, also won an award for Best Musical Performance. Also, Rebel won the Breakthrough Performance award for her role in Pitch Perfect. Jennifer Lawrence, or better known as, Katniss Everdeen, won the Best Female Actress award for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, where she played a troubled young woman named Tiffany. Her co-host, Bradley Cooper, won Best Actor for his role in Silver Linings Playbook. He played as a bi-polar man named Pat who befriends Jennifer Lawrence’s character, Tiffany. Also, for Silver Linings Playbook, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence both won the award for Best Kiss. The Movie of the Year award went to Marvel’s the Avengers. Tom Hiddleston won the award for Best Villain for his role in Marvel’s the Avengers. He played Loki, the villain trying to take over the world, who is stopped by the Avengers. Martin Freeman who played Bilbo Baggins, a common hobbit who rarely liked an adventure, won the award for Best Hero in the Hobbit. Taylor Lautner won the Best Shirtless Performance award for the movie Breaking Dawn Part Two. Will Ferrell won the Comedic Genius award and Emma Watson won the MTV Trailblazer award.
The night was full of funny moments and musical performances. Rebel Wilson performed Miley Cyrus’s song the Climb. Her co- hosts Skylar Astin, Ben Platt, and Utkarsh Ambudkar rapped Eminem’s Lose Yourself, while Rebel danced. Most of the cast of Pitch Perfect reunited to perform various songs from Alicia Keys’s Girl on Fire and Macklemore’s Thrift Shop. This year’s MTV Movie Awards also had many funny moments in it. Taylor Lautner won the Best Shirtless award, so when he came to accept his award and give a speech, he was in a fat suit and was carrying a lot of junk food.
Overall, the 2013 MTV Movie Awards was a huge success and Rebel Wilson didn’t let us down. Many people felt she did a good job hosting the show. Most thought she has hilarious and wouldn’t mind if she hosted again. Her vocal performances were great, such as The Climb, and her sense of humor pleased the crowd.