Review of Neighbors (2014) by Aurora C — 06 Nov 2014

I like Seth Rogen. There are few actors I'll actually defend their repertoire because they aren't given enough credit for the films they do. Funny People while too long is an underrated film that really pushed him dramatically.

And 50/50 is still an amazingly deep film along with Knocked Up and his work on Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks. That said, Neighbours is a mess. It's quite possibly his worst film since Observe and Report (a film I still believe even has more merit of acting than this).

The problem here is there is no direction, it just goes everywhere and it just doesn't have any cohesion. Rogen and Byrne complain they can't have a party life. Then complain they aren't fun.

Then complain they are disturbing the baby with noise from the frat ... as they come back from a party having sex. Then you have Efron playing the annoying dumb frat who really is just so one-dimensional.

There really isn't anyone here to root for and it just feels too long and rambly for an hour and a half movie. It's maybe as good as one of Adam Sandler one liner movies, but it lack any likability of those due to these scenes of just absent torture.