Just finished watching Neighbors.
Dave Franco has a bright future. As well as Zach Efron, kids can act, and this was a comedy; they both showed a range of emotions and hit the mark on 80% of their jokes, i was impressed. Seth Rogan...he cool in small doses, as is his style but I'm over it.
No one is going to comment on how terrible of parents they were. How terrible of people everyone was, and t gets brushed away like everything is sweet...pretty much every person in this movie was a d bag to one another.
That being said, I'm an old person, movies were every other joke is a ****/vagina joke, doesn't appeal to me, in fact I'm kind of offended. Be clever, write good jokes. Riffing off each other is cool for a few scenes but after that its annoying as hell. I don't get this new brand of comedy.
Comedies can take themselves seriously, but first they need to focus on a good movie, then add jokes. Movies like Trading Places, Animal House etc. all had serious parts but managed to stay funny because the stories were well written.
This movie missed the. 'Show don't tell' class at film school; any important thing they could have shown by a characters actions, they just said in the dialogue, it's lazy. Honestly, I think the writing was lazy in general, I'd love to see the shooting script for this movie, I imagine just scenes of 'improv.' They ould have spent more time on the story and less on them riffing; could have broadened the movies world, but it kept it way to focused on the main characters.
Some cheap laughs, but this is a 'cop at Walmart $5 bin' type movie.