Neighbors (2014)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 195
Fresh: 142 | Rotten: 53
With plenty of bawdy humor evenly spread between its well-matched stars, Neighbors earns its R rating -- and filmgoers' laughs.
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 11
With plenty of bawdy humor evenly spread between its well-matched stars, Neighbors earns its R rating -- and filmgoers' laughs.
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Movie Info
Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne lead the cast of Neighbors, 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. Neighbors is directed by Nick Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek). (c) Universal
Cast
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Seth Rogen
Mac Radner -
Rose Byrne
Kelly Radner -
Zac Efron
Teddy Sanders -
Elise Vargas
Stella -
Christopher Mintz-Pl...
Scoonie -
Dave Franco
Pete -
Brian Huskey
Bill Wazowkowski -
Ike Barinholtz
Jimmy -
Carla Gallo
Paula -
Halston Sage
Brooke -
Jerrod Carmichael
Garf -
Craig Roberts
Assjuice -
Ali Cobrin
Whitney -
Kira Sternbach
Brittany -
Fahim Anwar
Rival Frat Guy #1 -
Ori Kalmus
Rival Frat Guy #2 -
Steven Michael Eich
Thumbsucker -
Andy Samberg
Toga #1 -
Adam DeVine
Beer Pong Guy #1 -
Jake M. Johnson
Sebastian Cremmingto... -
Hannibal Buress
Officer Watkins -
Liz Cackowski
Wendy the Realtor -
Jason Mantzoukas
Doctor Theodorakis -
Lisa Kudrow
Dean Carol Gladstone -
Jesse Heiman
The Babysitter -
Randall Park
Rep -
Natasha Leggero
Prostitute -
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All Critics (195) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (142) | Rotten (53)
The young married couple does something cruel, and then the idiot frat guys next door respond, and back and forth it goes. I laughed, but not uproariously and not often enough.
Top CriticIt's Apatow without the Apatow, all ornaments and no tree.
As as tensions escalate, Teddy and Peter's partnership proves just as central and perhaps more vulnerable than Mac and Kelly's. Score one for growing up.
Rogen's always a dominating presence, but [Byrne], who showed her comic chops in Bridesmaids, comes close to stealing the movie here, in an uncorked performance full of volatile, liberating mischief.
One of the great surprises of Neighbors is both the gentle way with which it handles a nimrod party animal like Teddy and how good Efron is at playing him.
It's gross, all right, but rarely funny -- unless jokes about alcohol-laced breast milk is your thing.
Even if the story meanders in a predictable direction, it features several inspired comic moments.
You either agree to partake in the beer pong of a plot before laying down your money or stay home.
Though Nicholas Stoller's shortest movie to date, Neighbors is as unfocused and undisciplined as anything within the director's seriously erratic filmography...
I'd love to see a movie with these two paired up again, one that doesn't rely on cruelty to garner laughs.
Tries to be a cross between "Animal House" and "Old School" but, sadly, is more like a second-rate "Van Wilder" sequel.
Bad Neighbours makes the occasional comedic stumble but thankfully, it has more than enough energy to make it to the finish line.
It's Byrne who's Rogen's partner in crime, and she's the brains behind the operation ... a refreshing change of pace in a genre that usually relegates ladies to the nag role.
Even the snobbiest snobs in Neighbors turn out to be closeted slobs, and it's much funnier as a result.
The good news is that with Neighbors, you get the movie you're promised, and it's funny; the better news is that Neighbors is also so much smarter than that ; its high points far outshine the low ones,
[Rose Byrne] turns in the kind of film-stealing work here that absolutely just *has to* set her on the road to persistent stardom.
A grossout comedy that parties hard
Like a series of bad Saturday Night Live sketches, you keep hoping that the next bit will find the comedic mojo. Instead, one's funny bone remains unmoved.
The kind of movie where one is frequently told to park one's brain at the door. I have no doubt this would help, but even at the door, my brain would have raised objections.
Neighbors, the latest of several movies to use that same title, attempts, yet again, to cash in on culture-clash of ordinary folks vs. wild folks.
Banal riffs on pop culture themes vie for laughs with depressing jokes about tits, balls and dicks. The low-point has Byrne (who I hope was well paid) being "milked" by Rogen. Whatever happened to comedy?
Actually, while the script is strong -- the episodic structure means everyone can improv away without derailing the overall plot, which is just about the two sides going nuts anyway -- it's the four lead performances that lift this up and over.
The brothers of Delta Psi might be projections of the Rogen character's stress and anxiety, like the killer children in Cronenberg's 'The Brood,' a difference being that the frat bros wield bongs and dildos instead of lethal meat mallets.
While I was disappointed this film wasn't as funny as I hoped it would be, the unexpected depth and growth of these vulgar characters elevates this film to a slightly higher level of sophistication than one might expect.
As a leave-your-brain-at-home flick, Neighbors throws enough nonsense about to cook up an adequate stew of laughs and groans within its infantile framework...
There's little to recommend about this ugly descent into depravity.
Audience Reviews for Neighbors
Super Reviewer
Still humor can only take you so far. With a simple plot and a contrive, too-little-too-late approach to coming of age themes in character growth everything turns out to be a relatively shallow affair.
Neighbors is a forgettable but fun time to be had, mostly saved by a great cast that knows how to deliver a good punch line.
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- Pete: It's a blessing and a curse man.
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- Teddy Sanders: It's more accessible
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- Teddy Sanders: You could be the president of the United Nations.
- Pete: The UN doesn't have a president...
- Teddy Sanders: See, that's what I mean, you know shit like that.
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- Mac Radner: Never funny
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- Mac Radner: I thought it was stupid. Very few funny parts. Young teens will love it
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- Teddy Sanders: Welcome To The Darkness Bitches
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