Bad Neighbours

Bad Neighbours is a comedy starring Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Dave Franco and directed by Nicholas Stoller.

The film tells the story of Mac and his wife Kelly (Played by Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne), they are a young, happy family with a new born baby.

The couple seem to live in a relatively peaceful neighbourhood, that is until they get new neighbours which turns out to be a frat house.

Mac and his wife are OK with this at first seeing as they discussed the rules with their new neighbours regarding noise levels for the sake of their baby. But of course this doesn’t happen and the constant partying and noises leads Mac to declare war on the frat house. Which of course leads to retaliation from the varsity kids and neither will budge as both parties naturally want to come out victorious.

When I first heard about this film and read the premise, I was quite excited to watch this film, as I do enjoy most of Seth Rogen’s films, even though the continuing theme of marijuana and partying is getting old, and I thought this movie had potential to be a really funny movie.

Alas this is not the case. Although the movie does have its laughs, and there are plenty of them, I was expecting way more, especially when it came to the whole at war with each other concept.

Now I know that this is a stoner movie in a sense and it shouldn’t be taken too seriously, seeing as this film doesn’t take itself seriously, but when it comes to the performances, there were just some terrible moments. One example is both Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne delivered some really shoddy acting when talking to the varsity kids for the first time. The scene was supposed to depict them trying to act cool in from of these kids, but it really just bombed and from there I sort of lost respect for this film. however, at the opposite end, performances from Dave Franco and Zac Efron were really not too bad at all, I would go as far as saying they outperformed the lead actors in this film.

I really enjoyed Stoller’s previous film, This Is The End, and even though that movie was also not meant to be taken seriously, the whole concept and tone was way better and generated some great comedy.

Again, I know this isn’t a movie to be taken seriously, but at the same time, it just felt like something was missing and this is not one of Seth Rogen’s best films. If you are a fan and would really like to watch this movie, then I would suggest that you wait for the DVD.

So with that in mind, Bad Neighbours gets a not so neighbourly 5 out of 10