Variety's review of Rebel Wilson's new comedy "Girl Group" describes it as a glossy but shallow riff on "Pitch Perfect", combining a "Bad News Bears"-style mentorship plot with bawdy humour and lavish musical numbers. Wilson plays Tassie, a washed-up member of a 1990s girl band called Gurlfriends who, after a failed solo career and a spell of alcoholism, is sentenced to community service mentoring a group of ambitious Gen Z singers ahead of a competition. The review argues the film prioritises spectacle and jokes over substance, never matching the emotional depth of the "Pitch Perfect" franchise it clearly imitates.

The cast includes several real-life pop stars playing fictionalised versions of girl-group fame, among them Nicole Scherzinger and Ashley Roberts of The Pussycat Dolls, Mel C of the Spice Girls, and Shaznay Lewis of All Saints, alongside a brief appearance from Sally Hawkins. The critic notes the film gestures towards themes of generational attitudes to female sexuality and the "male gaze" in pop culture but largely abandons them in favour of broad, size-related and reference-heavy comedy. Overall, the review concludes the film is an enjoyable but forgettable "second-string" entry in the genre, ultimately more style than substance.