Review by Matt Finley
When a Delta Tau Chi-wannabe frat, led
by party Poobah Teddy (Zac Efron), moves next door to thirty-something married-with-baby Mac (Seth Rogan) and Kelly (Rose Byrne), hijinks ensue. It’s about the most
basic comedic premise possible, and NEIGHBORS, from GET HIM TO THE GREEK
director Nicholas Stoller, is happy to traipse through it with an effortless,
carefree abandon that makes for a quick, bright, one-and-done comic trifle as
watchable as it is unmemorable.
Marketed as Rogen vs. Efron, the
film is content to be precisely that, pitting rote versions of each actor’s
public stereotypes – the latter’s droll, shrugging schlubbery and the former’s
chiseled, entitled douchefulness - against one another in a series of
escalating pranks and asinine subterfuge.
