Bad Neighbours - 27th May 2014

A slight diversion for Tuesday Night is Film Night, we actually went to the cinema to watch a new release! Here's the blog for;

Bad Neighbours

It’s true that Bad Neighbours could have been a really terrible film, but it is of that popular irreverent comedy genre of recent history that seems to get away with being bad.

Luckily Bad Neighbours isn't actually bad, but it is only quite good. With 97 minutes of anarchic comedy. A decent cast that includes Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and an almost funny Zac Efron, who tends to appear half naked most of the time just for the titillation factor. The story flits between unfunny, funny and outrageous.

The plot revolves around Marc and Kelly Radner (Rogen and Byrne), a young couple with a six-month-old daughter, Stella and their new neighbours; a fraternity of university students. The club, "Delta Psi Beta", is led by president Teddy Sanders (Efron) who befriends the couple. However the students’ penchant for endless partying leads the couple next door to eventually call the police, an act that the university students see as a breakdown of their neighbourly friendship.

So a war of neighbours ensues, as each house attempts to force the other to leave the neighbourhood. Things escalate quickly and sometimes hilariously, with each antic more ridiculous than the last.

Bad Neighbours has fun with the idea of people coping with what is expected from them at a certain point in their life. On one side we have a young couple desperately trying to prove to themselves that life has not changed as they struggle to cope as new parents. And the fun loving students who soon realise that there is more to life than wall-to-wall partying.

It's a fun film, the jokes could be better and longer though. Not sure that it was worth the full ticket price at the cinema! Luckily we had vouchers.

TNiFN Rating 77%

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