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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

May. 20,2016
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5.7
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R
| Comedy

A sorority moves in next door to the home of Mac and Kelly Radner who have a young child. The Radner's enlist their former nemeses from the fraternity to help battle the raucous sisters.

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Lawbolisted
2016/05/20

Powerful

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AshUnow
2016/05/21

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Nayan Gough
2016/05/22

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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Juana
2016/05/23

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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jfbneko
2016/05/24

Absolutely mediocre comedy movie and a stupid story.

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tyingling7766
2016/05/25

Nobody asked for a sequel to Neighbors, but we got one. Was it better than the first? Not really. One thing that did stand out that they really don't get away from in sequels is that they didn't rehash all the same old jokes. So there is that. But there is more. Here we go…Synopsis: Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) are ready to make the final move into adulthood. But just as they thought they have reclaimed the neighborhood, they learn that their new neighbors are even more out of control than the last. To evict them, they will need help from their ex neighbor (Zac Efron). Starring: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Chloe Grace Moretz Director: Nicholas StollerThe Ugly: Okay, the thing that killed it for me with this movie hit a little personnel. A few years back I had a soldier who tried to break up my marriage because I was booting him out of the military for good reasons. Now, while that scenario was happening in the movie I did not laugh once. Breaking up a loving marriage is not something to joke up.The Bad: Remember how I said they didn't rehash the same old jokes from the first movie. Well, that wasn't the case when it came to Seth Rogan. Now, I still do find him funny, but his humor is getting a bit old.The Good: Having a different antagonist in this movie was the right move. The young females who want to be independent but also rely on each other was nice touch. If the movie was a different type of movie I would let my young daughters watch this movie due to its moral. If you watch the movie really think about the end of it and you'll see what I am talking about.Final Thoughts: A decent enough movie that could have been on par with the original due to the changes made. I would have given the movie a higher rating, but that personnel situation gets in the way.Rating: 6 out of 10That's it for me folks.

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EBJ
2016/05/26

Bad Neighbours 2 was directed by Nicholas Stoller and stars Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Chloe Grace-Mortez. Soon after they have dealt with the frat next door, Mac(Seth Rogen) and Kelly(Rose Bryne) Radner must team up with a former foe(Zac Efron) to stop a new sorority that moved in next door. I very much so enjoyed 'Bad Neighbours' and thought it was a very funny film, mainly supported by its quality premise. When I was reading reviews for this movie, I thought it was getting pretty harshly beaten and after watching it, I don't know why. Sure it's not as good as the original but sequels rarely are and if you take this movie for what it is, I think you'll enjoy yourself. The actors have good comedic timing, there are some genuine stomach hurting jokes and the movie is just a solid, fun time. While the story is basically just a rehash of the original, if it ain't broke then don't fix it. That said, I think they've exhausted all possibilities with this concept and to continue this franchise would be to milk it so much that it begins to bleed. I will definitely say that the ending is very fitting and ends the arc of all the characters very well so I think continuing the franchise would completely disregard this ending.As far as acting and characters are concerned, this movie fairs pretty well. Everyone is reasonably funny and has some comedic timing but I wouldn't say anyone blew me away. Seth Rogen does what he does best(laugh) and Rose Bryne was just there. I like both the actors and they do pretty well here. Zac Efron expands his repertoire in this movie from dumb guy to dumb guy with no job, friends or life goals. He deals with this very dangerous and out of left field expansion moderately well and I think it may have furthered his career for the better(/end Sarcasm). Chloe Grace-Mortez was probably the best acting wise but wasn't the best COMEDY wise. She was fine and I'm not saying she wasn't a solid villain but her comedic acting wasn't the greatest. Ike Barinholtz was great as Jimmy and that clown... That clown man... I still have nightmares from that clown. One thing I will say is that the initial antagonism between Mac and Teddy is completely contrived and forced because they were on good terms at the end of the last movie.Technically, the movie is pretty flawed. The cinematography was pretty messy and I typically try to ignore it in comedies but it did kind of stand out in this movie, but not in the good way. The set and costume design was passable.As the genre would suggest, a comedies primary purpose is to make the audience laugh. As far I'm concerned, this movie achieved that goal. I laughed at a fair amount of the jokes in this movie and was thoroughly impressed at how good and clever the writing was at points. They reference the previous film at one point with a simple joke but this one joke made me nearly start crying with laughter. In conclusion, this movie has got good performances, good characters and a solid laugh/cringe ratio of jokes. I do recommend this movie.6/10

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PresidentDonaldJTrump
2016/05/27

I didn't have high expectations going into Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising; the first movie was no masterpiece, but it was a fairly typical Seth Rogen comedy - raunchy, fun, and full of weed. Unfortunately, Neighbors 2 fails to live up to even the mediocre expectations of Neighbors. What we get instead of a funny stoner comedy is some kind of dull, feminist soapbox where humor is replaced by spoiled college students acting like brats while trying to be portrayed as the 'good guys'.In the first Neighbors film, Seth and his wife are harassed by a fraternity moving in next door - they come up with various plans to get the frat kicked out, and eventually succeed, even getting Zac Efron's character arrested (in Neighbors 2 he notes that he now has a criminal record because of the couple's actions in the first movie). So, the first one is about a bunch of bratty frat boys who get a semi-well-deserved comeuppance in the end. Not a bad movie, but not anything to write home about either.In Neighbors 2, however, the movie starts off by introducing us to Shelby, the 'hero' of the film, as she lights up a joint in her first sorority meeting. The sorority says no because they're stuck up and not fun, so Shelby decides to start her own sorority where she and her friends from Gender Studies class can smoke all the weed they want or whatever. So she buys the old frat house off of Efron's character, and when her new neighbors the Radners come over to inform her that their house is in escrow and they'd appreciate it if the girls would keep the obnoxiousness down - Shelby, being an entitled millennial whose parents never said 'no', immediately pulls the gender card, and whines that sororities aren't allowed to party and so therefore asking them to not do that for 30 days is sexist. Henceforth the Radners are somehow the bad guys, even after the women throw dirty tampons at the Radners' house and their child gets into them. Then, to top it off, Shelby's fat friend decides it'd be a good idea to snitch on all of the pot dealers so they can have a monopoly on weed to make enough money to keep their house.Unfortunately, it seems that at this point we're STILL not allowed to see the sorority as the bad guys, even though they are quite literally ruining the lives of small time pot dealers. The Radners steal all of their weed though so that's nice, but then they respond by trying to break them up with espionage, and break into their house and sell all of their furniture. Oh boy, it's on now!Not quite. You see, in the original Neighbors, when the frat went too far, the Radners did something about it and they won. Now, when the sorority screws them over harder than the fraternity EVER did (by causing them to lose the buyer for their house, potentially giving their daughter STDs, and selling all of their furniture, etc), the Radners decide to try and screw them over back by spoiling their party. Unfortunately, when the party is ruined the girls all start crying about how they can never be friends again because they'll have to live in separate dorms, and because sexism wins again!Sadly, sexism did win in the end, and it was because for some reason the Radners forgot EVERYTHING these women did and felt sorry for them, just because they are girls and they don't have an official organization to host parties for them.. So they encourage them to continue the party, and these awful women get off Scot-free despite exposing a child to bio-hazards, robbing a house and selling the items, snitching on weed dealers and trying to break up a family. Efron's character got a criminal record for being an obnoxious party boy, but Shelby is portrayed as a strong, feminist hero who faces no consequences for her actions in the end - further reinforcing society's modern message to young women, 'consequences don't matter because consequences are sexist'.

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