Post by PhantomKnight on Dec 30, 2016 17:54:00 GMT -5
Neighbors was kind of a rarity for me in that it was a Seth Rogen comedy that I surprisingly didn't walk away from hating. Sure, the movie was uneven, but it had some decent laughs and some pretty good slapstick humor. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, though, is more uneven in terms of its plot, with laughs that are much more scattered out. When a movie opens on a sex scene where one of the others gets vomited on in their face by the other as a way of announcing they're pregnant...never a good sign. Oh, spoiler alert?
A lot of the things I found to work in the first movie still do in this one -- to a certain degree -- and this one surprisingly gets into the issue of feminism, kind of, in a way that isn't shoved down your throat, and Zac Efron once again steals the show, but there's probably just as much in here that doesn't work. For one, for a movie that's only 92 minutes, the pacing of Neighbors 2 is all over the place. Also, Seth Rogen's and Rose Byrne's characters seemed to have simultaneously progressed and regressed since the first movie, which sometimes makes rooting for them feel weird. But most of all, for every joke that works, there's just as many that don't, getting back to my main complaint about the movie: it's wildly uneven.
Neighbors 2 may not be good, but at least I didn't detest it, like I did The Interview, for example.
**/****
A lot of the things I found to work in the first movie still do in this one -- to a certain degree -- and this one surprisingly gets into the issue of feminism, kind of, in a way that isn't shoved down your throat, and Zac Efron once again steals the show, but there's probably just as much in here that doesn't work. For one, for a movie that's only 92 minutes, the pacing of Neighbors 2 is all over the place. Also, Seth Rogen's and Rose Byrne's characters seemed to have simultaneously progressed and regressed since the first movie, which sometimes makes rooting for them feel weird. But most of all, for every joke that works, there's just as many that don't, getting back to my main complaint about the movie: it's wildly uneven.
Neighbors 2 may not be good, but at least I didn't detest it, like I did The Interview, for example.
**/****
