Add a fraternity lead by a hot guy, an Australian hormonal mother and a chubby wannabe-hipster father. What do you get? Bad Neighbours. The old peace seekers versus the young noisy hooligans. Standard formula is standard. That is literally the plot. Yet, this allows creativity and innovation to be injected into the film to bring out the hilarity. Surprisingly, this has several funny moments (even after the nth viewing). Ranging from Robert De Niro impression parties ("are you talkin' to me?"), weird hazing sessions and a dance off to the background music of Flo Rida. Random, but somehow oddly amusing that does conjure up a few laughs. Some of the jokes are high on the profanity level and does tend to feel like a competition to see how much the film can gross you out. Grows tiresome unfortunately. Acting all round was functional. Zac Efron has come along way since High School Musical and luckily has good comedic timing. Sure he looks fantastic...heavenly...I would even say Godly, but he can act. Seth Rogen is Seth Rogen. Rose Byrne pulls in a more natural performance and is a personal favourite of mine. Aside from that, it never pushes itself to more than just a crude comedy. If you like that, then great. I however like wit and subtle humour. That's not to say I didn't enjoy this, in fact in terms of recent comedies this is ranked highly. Also, the air bag scenes had horrendous human CGI that just detracted from everything else. If you couldn't do it without CGI, don't do it at all...especially in a comedy like this that utilises many props to give that sense of authenticity. Slight nitpicks but they do amount to negatives towards the film. It's undeniably watchable and a good comedy, but its contents grows tiresome as the runtime goes on.

. I did see the trailer, it was good and contained the only laughs of the movie. The movie was truly the most tedious thing I have ever experienced. Why did it get such good reviews from critics and such a high score on IMDb? User reviews here are spot on. Not a single good review. The reviewer above who mentioned he had sat down to more entertaining bowel movements surpassed any joke in the film.Something is very wrong here.

As a film, I just thought it was okay. There was nothing that made me crack up laughing, and at no time did I feel the need to pull out my phone to check Twitter. The film was never bad at any point (in my opinion) but it also didn't have me on the floor in tears laughing. So in the end I decided to give Neighbors an "Alright" on theVade Review Bar or a 5 out of 10. It wasn't bad, and it wasn't outstanding, it was just alright. So that's it.. just a short review for a movie that was just a tad short at being a good comedy.Read more at theVade.

For what this is, this is just fine. The whole gambit, which is the difference between Appatow stuff that work and those that don't, is to have skits that mask themselves out by spontaneity and characters that you can buy as people who are troubled by real stuff before they have to morph for the cartoon. They do it here mostly. A lot of it is down to Rogen and Byrne conveying a great vexation.It's about this couple of 30 year olds who have ushered into proper adulthood, bought their first house in the suburbs and just had a baby. The film begins with the notion that maybe they would like to party once in a while but this new life is too hectic. What do you know, a sorority moves next-door, reminder of crazy youth they have to leave behind and are probably better off for it.Enjoyable to watch overall and more of a breeze than not, which is what I expect to get out of a night with this.