Saturday, April 7, 2018

Neighbors 2 (2016)

This actually wasn't a horrible film. It had too many characters and too little screen time, but it was actually funnier than the first film.
Shelby (Chloe Grace Moretz) has just started college and is fed up with all the rules of sororities and how society treats women so she decides to open her own sorority, which means she buys the house right next to the Radners. And the Radners aren't happy about it as they are in escrow. Escrow, for the record, is when the buyer has thirty days to inspect the house and can back out of the sale for whatever reason.
In the meantime, Teddy (Zac Efron) is having struggles of his own. He hates his job at Abercombie and Pete (Dave Franco) has finally come out of the closest and is engaged to the love of his life, Darren (John Early) so Teddy is kicked out of the house. So he takes Shelby and her friends, Nora (Beanie Feldstein) and Beth (Kiersey Clemons) under his wing. After all, he quit his job and needs a place to stay, plus he's super hot. He also is schooled in how sexist his fraternity was and the girls aren't taking anything lying down. Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) need them out while the girls need to raise money to keep their house so it is a full out war until the girls kick Teddy out. So he switches sides and soon, finds himself sleeping with a three-year-old. Which is just awkward for all involved.
And it is a full out war, with weed stealing and bedbugs being planted in the girls' house though in the end, the buyers back out of sale as they watched the girls steal everything out of the Radners's house. But, in the end, Kelly tells the girls that they are strong and their ideals are what them have a sisterhood not the house itself. So they stop and even more girls join the sorority so they are able to rent the Radners house.
The Radners are able to move out into their huge new house and have their new baby while Teddy found his calling as a gay wedding planner, one of the few jobs you can do with a criminal record.
Despite the ridiculous concept and how a didlo should never have the opportunity to fall into a baby's hands, it was still a decent film. The funny part is when Mac tries to teach Teddy to adult and part of that involves hard boiling an egg. Teddy doesn't understand how water can make an egg hard when it makes pasta soft.
Still, the performances were solid and it was a reasonably feminine film with only one gross scene unlike two in the previous film. I'm glad they cut out the scenes with Teddy and Shelby getting together as that would have probably ruined the film. Teddy needs to grow up before falling in love. But at least he respects women more now. This was another good Saturday night movie. Grade: B

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