A quiet man (John Belushi)'s peaceful suburban lifestyle is threatened by the new, obnoxious couple that moves in next door.I feel like this was a precursor to "The Burbs". Not as funny, definitely not as weird, but some of the same concepts about the horrors of the suburbs. John Belushi excels here because he is given an opportunity to be the normal guy rather than the "wild and crazy one". Aykroyd is okay, though this is far from his best.And Cathy Moriarty? I still have to wonder how she never got any bigger. She seemed to start off so strong, fade away, briefly come back for "Casper" and then... where did she go? Cathy, we need more movies with you, please.

NEIGHBORS is directed by John G. Avildsen and based loosely on a novel by Thomas Berger. This will be John Belushi's last movie before his untimely death. And he gets to share the screen with Saturday Night Live pal Dan Aykroyd.Earl Keese(Belushi)lives a quiet, close to mundane life with his wife, Enid(Kathryn Walker)and their daughter, Elaine(Lauren-Marie Taylor). More or less happy. Earl's whole routine in his quiet and calm neighborhood is in for a major disruption when loud, obnoxious and freeloading Vic(Aykroyd)and his sexpot wife, Ramona(Cathy Moriarty)buy the house next door. Go ahead and accept it; there goes the neighborhood. The Keese family minding their p's and q's, while the suburb disintegrates before their very eyes. Ramona and Vic invite the neighbors over what turns out to be a bizarre dinner date straight from crazy town. Earl will be forced to scheme a way to get rid of the over-the-top couple. The movie lingers on and begins to peter-out! Belushi didn't seem to be 100% Belushi. Aykrod dyed-blonde? But Miss Moriarty made the best of her movie debut...Wow! Also in the cast: Igors Gavin and Dru-Ann Chuckran. A couple of great tunes were featured: "Hello, I Love You" by The Doors and "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees.

This movie is nothing more than a tedious sequence of poorly conceived juvenile "humor". Worst commercial film I have ever suffered through. Love just about everything else from Belushi and Aykroyd. There really is nothing else worth saying about this "film", but apparently ten lines of verbiage is required. There really is nothing else worth saying about this "film", but apparently ten lines of verbiage is required. There really is nothing else worth saying about this "film", but apparently ten lines of verbiage is required. There really is nothing else worth saying about this "film", but apparently ten lines of verbiage is required.

Is it too soon to say I wish George Zimmerman lived on this city block? I guess so, since Georgie Boy wasn't even born when this movie came out.Neighbors is a movie I vaguely recall from my childhood. I might have seen it with my parents at a Drive-In as one of those double features. Back in 1981, I could've cared less what we were going to see, just the fact we were seeing something on the big screen.That said, probably, I would've been bored with this feature of battling neighbors as it was 100% adult humor, way over my 7-year-old head. The only thing that changed back then and now, is that now I get the humor but…I'm still bored.This movie was all over the place and was an obvious attempt to get Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi back together again. Bad for us due to the rush, but good for them to green lit this speedily as Belushi wouldn't be with us much longer. (In fact, he would die roughly four months after this was released.)If the writer, Larry Gelbart, was going for an odd-couple type of movie pitting straight-laced vs. a bum, he was slightly off. Sure, Belushi and Aykroyd reversed Blues Brother roles here, with Belushi barely playing the straight man to Aykroyd's weirdo, but Belushi's Earl does such outrageous actions that, for the most part, doesn't even make any sense. At least Aykroyd's Vic is supposed to be psycho, giving him full range of craziness."Normal couple" Earl and Enid live in what seems to be the dead-end cul-de-sac of Nowhere, USA, and the 6-month vacant house next door is being occupied by a sex-crazed (but wonderful Cathy Moriarty) woman, Ramona and Vic who invite themselves into Earl's home. Well, that "self-invite into the home" is putting it mildly. Pretty soon, it's as if the foursome have known each other their entire lives. Or sadly, it feels like we've known them for far too long.It's hard not to put ourselves in the shoes of these characters, namely Earl, and see what we would do in the countless of scenes of weird behavior Vic and Ramona cause on their new neighbors. If you did that, like I did, you'll find practically every single decision Earl makes 100% opposite of what you'd do.Slap stick comedy is like that. Dark comedy, too. So, I guess you kinda have to give it to them, but that doesn't make the endless mess of a movie any better. Or any less painful to watch as the majority was.It's a 31-year-old movie that's long since forgotten and probably should stay that way. Even fans of Belushi would be disappointed. I know I was…well, except whenever his shirt was off.Side Note: I have an update! Today is Father's Day, and I asked him at dinner if he just HAPPENED to remember our family going to the drive-in 30 years ago and seeing Neighbors. Unbelievably, HE DID. I said I didn't think he liked it, and he said he didn't but we saw it because he liked the Saturday Night Live actors at the time "when it was funny." That was funny.