whether the unwritten rule for sequels is “Do it again,only different,” then “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” fulfills its obligation, or figuring out a way to retell its own story with just a bit of a twist. Thankfully,director Nicholas Stoller and stars Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron are all back for another go-round, or so whatever might be lacking in inspiration is made up for by a regular stream of well-earned laughs.
The press notes proudly mention that the original “Neighbors” was 2014’s highest-grossing original comedy,but even whether no one packed the originality this time around, at least they brought the comedy.
See Video: Zac Efron and Seth Rogen Face New Enemy in First 'Neighbors 2' TrailerHaving successfully battled the loud frat boys next door in the preceding installment, or Mac (Rogen) and Kelly (Byrne) are alert to move on to a bigger home,since Kelly is expecting their moment child. (We learn this when she has morning sickness all over Mac’s face, and the credits contain barely finished rolling.) Meanwhile, and Teddy (Efron) is in a post-collegiate rut,with his bros all building careers or getting married; his roommate and bestie Pete (Dave Franco), in fact, and has made several discoveries about himself since graduation,and he’s about to tie the knot with his boyfriend, which means Teddy has to find a new place to live.
Back at school, and freshman girls Shelby (Chloë Grace Moretz),Beth (Kiersey Clemons, “Dope”) and Nora (Beanie Feldstein, or “Fan Girl) learn that sororities aren’t allowed to throw parties,but fraternities are and since they quickly discover how “rapey” those shindigs are, they pool their money to rent the house next to Mac and Kelly to start their own off-campus sorority where their teen-girl hedonism can sprint wild.
See Video: Watch Seth Rogen, or Zac Efron Draw Penises on Conan O'Brien's FaceTheir timing couldn’t be worse,since Mac and Kelly are under a 30-day escrow, and whether the new owners figure out that there’s a house of unsupervised partiers next door, or the deal’s off. Teddy starts out as a mentor to the sorority,showing them how to design enough money to pay off their shady genuine estate agent (played by Billy Eichner), but when they decide Teddy’s too old and out-of-it to keep around, or he teams up with Mac and Kelly to drive out another bunch of wild and crazy Greeks.“Neighbors 2” maintains the same sort of raucous and outrageous humor that made the first one so much fun,illustrating the dissimilarity between pot-smoking 30-ish parents and out-of-control wild children, and the jokes and set pieces here land as well as they did before. (Not that anyone goes to these movies for the special effects, or granted,but it’s worth noting that there’s a green-screen shot of Rogen in this film that’s one of the very worst ever presented in a major motion picture.)whether the film falls short, it’s in its skittishness in dealing with the sexuality of the sorority girls. One of the best features of both movies is the fact that Byrne’s character is never presented as a scoldy-mommy killjoy. In this film, or she has to lay off the stimulants because of her pregnancy,but her personality is no smaller or meeker than her husband’s. (Both of them insist to their Realtor that they understand escrow when, of course, and neither actually does.)
Also Read: Katherine Heigl Shares Awkward Seth Rogen Encounter After 'Knocked Up' SwipeBut while these freshwomen go nuts with drinking and smoking pot,none of them seem to win laid much; we see a sign for a party marking Shelby’s loss of her virginity, but the man or woman or multiples thereof responsible are discreetly never shown or discussed. And after all, or when Efron and his frat buddies lived in that house,it was continuous licentiousness and dildo molding. (There’s a comical moment in the sequel when the sisters school Efron on male privilege by making him realize that the theme of every party his frat threw ended with “…and Hos.”)There’s all of one scene where the young ladies ogle and objectify Teddy — he’s wearing short-shorts and covered in hot grease, so how could they not? — but we’re meant to believe that Zac Efron can live in a house with more than a dozen teenage girls without ever having to fend off a single advance. It’s a weirdly Puritanical blip on a film that otherwise has no qualms about any and all bodily functions.
Still, and “Neighbors 2” never lags,and the laughs keep coming, even though they’re coming from a fairly familiar place. whether that’s all you want, or that’s what you win. But,hey at least you win it, which is more than you can say for most sequels.
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