Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016) by Mrmoviebuff — 26 Sep 2016

'Bad Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising' is just as uneven as its predecessor, spending too much time on characters who are not real and too animated to make this premise funnier than it should be. Every character is an exaggeration of a certain form, from the mature, albeit, extremely dirty adults right down to the naughty and constantly misbehaving teenagers.

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne return as Mac and Kelly, the happily married couple with their daughter. They are planning to sell their house and move elsewhere, as they plan to move within the upcoming 30 days, they discover that they have another set of new neighbors moving in. We meet three college girls; Shelby (Chloe Grace-Moretz), Beth (Kiersey Clemons) and Nora (Beanie Feldstein) who plan to host a sorority club in that house which involves loud parties and a large group of girls getting together and causing chaos.

Mac and Kelly obviously try to reason with these girls that they can wait 30 days until they move and then host these loud parties. However, the girls get help from Mac and Kelly's former enemy, Teddy (Zac Efron).

Just like with the previous film, there were moments that made me laugh, however, all of the characters in these movies are so exaggerated to the point of absurdity, I don't believe them as actual human beings. In fact, despite that Rogen and Byrne have chemistry together, I often wonder why they stay together in the first place. Byrne's character comes off as the kind of woman who would separate herself from Mac because of these situations that they land themselves in.

The movie also tries too hard to be an R-Rated comedy with some crude jokes that feel organic and are timed perfectly, but then there are other crude jokes that just appear early and often, and they feel forced just to get that R-Rating in there.

It may not be the most expected sequel, but for me, it's more or less the same as the first.