Neighbors

At times, a laugh-out-loud bash of a comedy that's largely held up by Efron, and to a lesser extent Franco. I can take or leave Rogan. It was successful enough to spawn a less than stellar sequel, but it doesn't take much these days. Not bad, worth a watch, a passive one.

Amusing collegiate fun. Does a good job humanizing its antagonists. A lot of the jokes are more dirty-for-the-sake-of-dirty than clever-dirty, though. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm no prude or anything at all. I watch Game of Thrones like everyone else. But I still don't consider "look, a giant dick!" or "look, big veiny boobs!" a "joke" in anything but the loosest terms.

I didn't like this. There were a handful of funny moments here and there, but it was largely juvenile and tedious and the attempts at giving the film a heart just rang incredibly false and undermined what little of the comedic setup could have been effective. Just not for me.

We only have like 3ish more years of Christopher Mintz-Assy before he's gone forever. I can't wait.

One of the better character-driven comedies in a while. I like that the movie acknowledges its plot is pushed forward mostly by itchy boredom. Efron and Franco bring massive amounts of warmth and humanity to collegiate villains that could be moustache-twirlers in a lesser film, and both do a great job of legitimizing themselves as movie stars -- especially Efron. It's a funny movie full of funny people, and the casting director who paired Hannibal Buress with Jerrod Carmichael deserves an Oscar.