Neighbors

Movie Title--  Neighbors

Release Year--  2014

Running Time--  1 Hour and 36 Minutes

Director--  Nicholas Stoller

Cast--  Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Bryne, Ike Barinholtz, Carla Gallo, Dave Franco, Halston Sage

A couple adjusting to life with a newborn baby is highly discouraged when a fraternity moves in next door.

Mac (Seth Rogan) and Kelly Radner ( Rose Byrne) are a couple dealing with the problems that new parents have after bringing home a newborn.  They are trying to maintain their old lifestyle while trying to adjust to having a baby in the house, which only causes them to alienate themselves from their friends.  The house next door is for sale and they soon find themselves new neighbors to the Delta Psi Beta Fraternity.  

Mac and Kelly go next door to introduce themselves to the leaders of the fraternity, the President Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron) and the Vice President Pete Regazolli (Dave Franco).  That evening the party at the fraternity house gets a little loud, so Mac and Kelly go next door, only to be invited in and they party all night long and in the morning Teddy makes them promise to call him if they get too loud instead of the cops.  However when the house has another loud party the following night, Mac and Kelly break their promise and call the cops, causing the two houses to go to war.

I really have mixed reviews about this film.  The frat house scenes were pretty good, the scenes that Rogan, Bryne and Efron were together in were pretty good but I didn't really enjoy the scenes that Rogen and Bryne were in without Efron.  I just didn't think that the scenes between Rogen and Bryne were very funny and at times they were even tedious and boring.  I think my favorite part about this entire film was whenever it was just Efron and Rogen in a scene together.  If you watch closely, at times you can even see Efron starting to smile before he says his lines or before he makes any movement; it just seems like the two of them actually enjoyed working together and it shows in the finished product.

Another small problem I have with the film is that Mac and Kelly Radner are supposed to be the adults and at times they are worse than the college students.  Instead of trying to come up with adult ways to take care of the problem next door, they act childish about it and scheme as if they are still in college themselves.  After one or two of those scenes it really made me want to cheer for the fraternity over the "good" neighbors.

Although I did have a few problems with this film, I did really enjoy it.  I would recommend this film to a friend, especially if I thought they needed a good laugh.  Expect a few laugh out loud moments with this one and Don't Forget the Popcorn!