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Lewder, weirder, harder, leaner, meaner and more winningly goofy than anything its director Nicholas Stoller and star Seth Rogen have ever been involved with before, frat comedy "Neighbors" boasts an almost oppressive volume of gags wild , and provided that audiences do not mind the lack of anything resembling a coherent story arc, its commercial potential should be large. Presented as a work in progress at SXSW (though besides missing credits and a few quirks continuity, seems largely finished), "Neighbors" is a protest unchecked that should go a long way toward selling Zac antagonist Efron as reliable adult actor, though as with anything that involves the Greek system, little more moderation in the beginning may have prevented a few headaches later.
Rogen and Rose Byrne star as Mac and Kelly, a young married couple whose infant daughter has made a move to the suburbs. Besides disruption of their sex and social lives - their efforts to organize "the first rave baby" regardless - both seem to be managing the transition to parenthood well, until the next door property was taken over by Beta Psi Delta fraternity, led by president peacocking Teddy (Efron) and brainy, his interest only barely sublimated love, Pete (Dave Franco).
Frat arrival forces the Mac and Kelly face their own decline accelerated in fogeydom old, as they frantically debating less uncool way to deliver the phrase "Can you keep it down?" To their new neighbors. Both parties take some initial olive branch, with Teddy invited the couple over for some magic mushrooms and powerful Mac tried to use the word "trill" in conversation, but when Mac and Kelly finally call the cops on one of the frat ragers's weeknight two houses declare all-out war.
While the film first 15 or so minutes to have a noticeable similarity with shaggier, more loving efforts of previous Stoller as "forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "five-year commitment," at this point the director allows chaos to reign supreme, with quick pic back in "Revenge of the Nerds" by "Spring Breakers." Mac and Kelly meeting with the dean of the university (Lisa Kudrow) shows that there are only two strikes frat disciplinary left before it will break, and the couple promotes a campaign of sabotage elaborate, with Delta responded in kind home.
There is little here that makes more sense from a narrative standpoint - indeed Rogen's 2013 hit, "This is the end", can also be Bergman by comparison - but only occasionally does it matter. Subplots that include Mac and best friend Kelly (Ike Barinholtz) appears to be missing key scenes that set. At times the film abandons all pretense of sketching a really dramatic arc quite simply lined a strange, frantic setpiece after another. And at the end of the day, there is no real reason for Efron and Rogen in a scene with epic kung fu battle using plaster casts of members of members HOUSE delta. But sticklers will be few and far between.
Relegated to secondary roles, keep loving for too long, Byrne is cast here as the most foul-mouthed matriarch this side of "August: Osage County", and it attacks the role with enthusiasm almost maniacal. But is eternally shirtless former teen idol Efron, surprisingly, that gives the film intriguing performance, designs a coin-turning combination of zeal and brotherly Mephistophelean sadism that will ring true for anyone who ever found themselves on the losing side a wooden paddle.
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In some of the best scenes of the film, particularly a hysterical CODA out a Abercrombie & Fitch store, characters Rogen and Efron's nemeses that seems a bit distorted reflections of each other. (At one level, Teddy seems to realize that it is only a matter of years before he would find himself on the other side of the fence, suffering from a burst exactly like himself.) It might have been interesting to see a somewhat deeper, more Apatovian take on this topic, although "deeper" is not a movie direction sometimes seems interested in the cruise.
There are a number of brands lost, however. A joke about infant HIV really should be funnier than it is to justify its existence, while a sequence alas breast pump useless fiasco feels almost cynically engineered to give only a movie "Bridesmaids"-style function Corporal conversation-starter. (It may also have been mentioned in the text as "the scene.") This is an unnecessary measure, but surprising for a film capacitance values on sustainability.
Technically, pic is very well shot and edited more than a college comedy really should be, with frequent party scenes in particular taking on an almost surreal timbre.