Baywatch

Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron star in Baywatch.

By George M. Thomas

If there were ever a television show ripe for lampooning on the big screen, that 90s jigglefest BAYWATCH would be it.

Personally, I never watched the show.  I had better things to do like organize my sock drawer. But there are plenty of folks who did watch during the series’ run in syndication from 1989 to 2001. 

Yes, that’s 12 years of unbelievable, inane plots and enough skin for the time to start a soft porn site. But hey, somehow David Hasselhoff and his crew of beautiful people found an audience.

Neighbors

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.