Bad Neighbours Movie Review | by tiffanyyong.com
Recommended Audience: Fans of Zac Efron, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen and Comedy movie fans
Bad Neighbours Synopsis
Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne lead the cast of Neighbors (Bad Neighbours), a comedy about a young couple suffering from arrested development who are forced to live next to a fraternity house after the birth of their newborn baby. Night after night, Mac asks Teddy to lower the fraternity’s noise, even accepting the invitation to the party one evening.
When Teddy goes back on his word to keep the partying down, Mac calls the police to deal with the problem. The police quickly blamed Mac for their presence, and the war begins. As the family feuds with the frat brothers, things get hilariously dangerous and the fraternity end ups on thin ice with their college. After receiving their final warning and being placed on probation, Mac and Kelly pull a prank so ingenious that Teddy and Mac are forced to respond.
Bad Neighbours Viewer Rating: 4.5/5 ****
Bad Neighbours Movie Review:
This is probably the best comedy of the year. And yes, Zac Efron, the girls drool, the guys envy. Oh and Dave Franco, I mistook him for his brother James Franco (I was telling my friend the guy in Bad Neighbours was the Harry Osborne in the Spiderman trilogy) and then started wondering why is he shorter than Zac Efron (Oops!). If you’ve watched the trailer, you will know why is the film hilarious, and guess what, those are NOT the only funny parts. I’m so glad that there were more than that (hint: the airbags; and you will know what I mean when you watch it.)
Yea, I know you’ll think I’m biased for rating the movie so high because there’s Zac Efron, which is true because I watched the movie BECAUSE of Zac Efron, but I did not come up with the rating. This rating was given by my MALE friend (and I seconded it), so I’m not rating it high because I’m a Zefron!
Zac Efron and Dave Franco
I paused for a moment to ponder on what I got to write for the duo. Heading the fraternity, Teddy (Zac Efron) and his deputy, Pete (Dave Franco) party for a living. Teddy somehow reminded me of Leonardo DiCaprio’s in Wolf of Wallstreet, albeit a younger, milder version, with a body much hotter! Whereas Pete’s the brain who stayed for brotherhood and besides the butt-showing scene, it was difficult for Dave Franco to perform much beside a charming Zac Efron. No worries, he’s still charismatic in his own ways. The rest of the guys don’t make much of an impression, ok fine, with exception of Christopher Mintz-Plasse (from Kick-Ass) as a minor sidekick, Jerrod Carmichael for his accidental waxing and Craig Roberts for his “honesty” which are enough to make me return to the cinemas again.
Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne
Seriously, if I’m to have a family next time, I hope my relationship with my husband will be like Mac and Kelly’s. This pair of dream couple ain’t perfect, but they are good together. They are new parents, still worried about the huge (baby) change in their life, and they still want to party now and then. Rather than the typical wife-who-says-no, Kelly is more of a go-getter, supportive of her spouse revenge schemes (some of them are hers in fact) which made the whole movie even more fun!
Family VS Frat
Neighbors (or Bad Neighbours) is a fairly simple plot without much depth to it, but I like how the film is honest, and sometimes, so ridiculous that you really hope this will happen in real life (perhaps not the dildo fight though). It reminded me of my college times, even though there weren’t any fraternities to make life so interesting, but the crazy things I did with my friends, with the freshmen, the fear of losing all the stuff I was enjoying once I graduate… all these were just shown in such a refreshing way that somehow, it was reflective. I don’t often hear the cinema filled with laughter for three quarter of the time, and being a skeptical person, this is one of the rare times where I had a nice laugh. With the entertaining finale (of Zac Efron and Seth Rogen), I don’t mind watching the movie again and again. Oh, and the baby is cute too!
P.S. Trust me, although I love Zac Efron (and his pecs), it’s not all his films that I want to watch again. This is one of the rare ones (besides HSM)
Do You Know?
Seth Rogen said that the baby eating the condom made him laugh till he cried.
Was originally titled Townies, but was changed to Neighbors.
On the day he was supposed to film his love scene, Dave Franco got a blemish on the butt and had to go to the make-up artist and asked if she would cover it with makeup.
Behind The Scenes and Interviews
Check out Bad NeighboursOfficial Website and Facebook Page!
Bad Neighbours is out in cinemas on 8th May 2014.
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*Disclosure: Special thanks to United International Pictures for the invitation. No monetary compensation was received for the movie review.
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I’ve planning to watch this this weekend.
I’ve seen this movie already and this is not good for kids though.
I also just watched the movie because of Zac Efron. Ever since I saw the trailer, I couldn’t wait for the movie. But when I saw it, I was disappointed. I didn’t like it 🙁
Love all the actors in this film, will definitely watch it as soon as it comes to cable. We’re like the couple in the movie with a young kid. And hubby and I rarely watch movies in theaters. We always wait till the movies are available in cable.
i love this film! loved dave franco in it too
My idol Zac Efron did his best for this movie and I liked his boyish acting.
It seems funny movie, but may be I would like to give the ratings 3/5..
I can imagine how this movie would be funny. Also including Zac Efron was a pretty smart move to attract more viewers! Haha! I will probably watch this movie too! 😀
Loved Dave Franco in “Now you See This” and another chance to watch him here. Yay! Not a fan of Zac, but nevermind, the story looks good to watch with the girlfriends. Omg the airbags!
Thanks for the review. I have been hearing about this movie but yet to watch. It is no longer on big screen in Malaysia now. Need to watch online.
I am willing to watch the movie if I could get some time from my busy work schedule.
I love Zac Efron, he is so cute and charming and the movie Bad neighbours seems like so much fun. I like such kind of movies because they make me just sit back and relax, and laugh.
The movie has a simple plot but it looks like it has loads of laughter. I’ll try to check this out.
On a friday, I like to destress by watching a good comedy movie… so I am starting the coming weekend with this one !
I wanted to watch the movie because of Zac too! I’ve been hearing reviews about it saying that this has to be one Zac’s best movies after HSM. Looking forward to more laughter when I watch it!
They did not show this movie in my country so I haven’t seen it yet. Your rating is do high!
Good or bad, neighbor is very important for us… Great movie!
Hmm, not really my kind of movie. But I may just pop by the cinema to catch it if I have spare time!
I love Zac efron too eversince the movie highschool musical! I’ll definitely add this to my Movie list-kaycee