Neighbors - Hilarious Movie with a Surprising Lesson

If you haven’t seen Neighbors yet, GO SEE IT! You’ve got a few weeks left! Directed by Nicholas Stoller, a new couple, Mac and Kelly Radner (played by Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne), with their newborn baby are forced to deal with fraternity shenanigans from the fraternity that moves in next door, lead by Teddy and Pete (played by Zac Efron and Dave Franco respectively). Because of noise complaints and broken promises, Mac and Kelly try to sell their house so they can move, but are told no one will want to move in next to a fraternity. So they make it their mission to get the fraternity evicted, putting both sides in a huge “turf” war. They go through rounds pulling pranks on one another, such as stealing the car air bags or flooding their neighbor’s basement.

Besides the fact of how hilarious this movie is, it actually takes on some pretty deep and mature theme of the grass is always greener on the other side. Mac and Kelly have become a new family with a new baby. The miss what it was like to not have a baby, where they could party all the time, smoking weed, just like their college years, like Teddy and Pete. They later realize that that part of their life is over and they actually enjoy staying at home playing with their baby.  Teddy, in his senior of college, lives the perpetual frat boy life, never going to class and partying all the time. He wants to throw the ultimate party of the year to put him on the board of legends. After watching his fraternity brothers go to job fairs and preparing for their future, he slowly starts to realize there’s more to life after college, but he’s not ready yet. He later takes on responsibility for his actions, gets his life together and gets a job to put him through night school so he can get his degree, so he can have a future, like Mac.

I think my favorite scene of this movie is when Mac and Teddy have a discussion on Batman. By revealing who each character’s favorite Batman is, the audience discovers the age gaps between the two when Mac prefers Michael Keaton’s Batman to Christian Bale’s Batman. They thus continue to talk like Bale’s Batman for a good 5 minutes.

Go watch the movie! If you loved, This is the End, you'll love this movie! It’s imbued with Rogen’s humor with a a fresh twist from Efron. And for the ladies who want to see Efron shirtless, he has numerous shirtless scenes.