Thursday, May 7, 2015

"Neighbors" (2014)

Synopsis:
Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) are force to live next door to a fraternity lead by Teddy (Zac Efron) and  Pete (Dave Franco). Mac and Kelly do whatever they can to take down the fraternity boys.

Review:
I enjoy a good raunchy comedy and I like Seth Rogen in just about anything he's in. However, I was not impressed here.

The story is utterly ridiculous. Basically, there is this married couple who have a baby daughter and they are having to live next door to this fraternity house during an "end of the year party". It seems like a passable premise for a comedy, but half of the scenes barely go anywhere. For instance, there is this scene where Mac's wife Kelly has this breast disease and Mac has to milk it to make the disease go away. That served not purpose to the plot. Then, the fraternity boys decide to make their own dildos. What did that have to do with anything? Also, that fight scene between Mac and Teddy is stupid. Basically, it's them fighting with dildos and acting like idiots.

This film lacks cleverness. The humor is all unfunny genital jokes that are just downright annoying. Not to mention that cringe worthy pubic hair joke that they threw in.

On a positive note, Zach Efron is surprisingly not bad in it and the airbag scenes are quite clever. Unfortunately, those are the only positives that I found in this over hyped piece of junk.

Overall, I thought this film was lame and uninventive and I do not recommend it.

Max Scale:
3/10


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