Neighbors (2014)

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Add a fraternity lead by a hot guy, an Australian hormonal mother and a chubby wannabe-hipster father. What do you get? Bad Neighbours. The old peace seekers versus the young noisy hooligans. Standard formula is standard. That is literally the plot. Yet, this allows creativity and innovation to be injected into the film to bring out the hilarity. Surprisingly, this has several funny moments (even after the nth viewing). Ranging from Robert De Niro impression parties ("are you talkin' to me?"), weird hazing sessions and a dance off to the background music of Flo Rida. Random, but somehow oddly amusing that does conjure up a few laughs. Some of the jokes are high on the profanity level and does tend to feel like a competition to see how much the film can gross you out. Grows tiresome unfortunately. Acting all round was functional. Zac Efron has come along way since High School Musical and luckily has good comedic timing. Sure he looks fantastic...heavenly...I would even say Godly, but he can act. Seth Rogen is Seth Rogen. Rose Byrne pulls in a more natural performance and is a personal favourite of mine. Aside from that, it never pushes itself to more than just a crude comedy. If you like that, then great. I however like wit and subtle humour. That's not to say I didn't enjoy this, in fact in terms of recent comedies this is ranked highly. Also, the air bag scenes had horrendous human CGI that just detracted from everything else. If you couldn't do it without CGI, don't do it at all...especially in a comedy like this that utilises many props to give that sense of authenticity. Slight nitpicks but they do amount to negatives towards the film. It's undeniably watchable and a good comedy, but its contents grows tiresome as the runtime goes on.

The only reason I am giving this a 4 is the good acting, and going a little serious for a short while and also Zac Efron (of whom I am a big fan).The comedy is quite dead and I cringed every time, I don't remember having a deep-from-heart laugh or something, the idea was good but it was not handled pretty well. And what do you get ? This trainwreck. 4/10 I gave the second part a chance and it turned out to be better, but this part is pure horrendous.

6.4?? Really?? Not based on the public's review score. The disparity between the rating and the user reviews poses questions on IMDb's scoring integrity. Jokes are lame, poorly written and funny to pre-pubescent teens. I couldn't stomach the whole film and had to stop watching. My 14 year old thought it hilarious, although the films a 15. Do yourself a favour and find another film... any film..

Neighbors is very weak , I expected more of this comedy even to have Seth Rogen who usually is in good comedies such as This Is the End which is pretty funny , the cast is good, Seth Rogen has some funny moments , plus a whole this well down on performances as in own this is the End he plays himself , Rose Byrne is the best thing in the film, she is very funny , and takes seriously its role , Zac Efron is a good actor , over here it evil, Dave Franco , Christopher Mintz- Plasse , Craig Roberts , Carla Gallo , Ike Barinholtz , etc. , the same performances not being the strong point of the film, they do not come to compromise, the script is weak , but I did not expect to see a good script , the characters are not well developed , the actors are bad you take advantage , what it is bad, why this film had potential , Neighbors is a comedy to forget , Seth Rogen already did best , and Rose Byrne is very good actress to do this kind of production . Note 4.8