Years of watching Aussie soaps have taught us that everybody loves good neighbours. But what do people think of bad neighbours?<\/p>\n
Easy; they hate them and regularly subject them and their loved ones to physical violence. That\u2019s according to Bad Neighbours<\/em>, at least.<\/p>\n Bad Neighbours<\/em> stars Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as a relatively young couple living in domestic bliss with their newborn baby. That is until Efron moves in next door, bringing with him his entire college fraternity, Delta Psi.<\/p>\n As you might expect, the all-night parties of Delta Psi don\u2019t sit too well with the new parents and war soon breaks out…<\/p>\n Bad Neighbours<\/em> is ultimately quite a strange film. On the one hand, it\u2019s a gross-out comedy of the highest order, with a near-constant stream of jokes about privates, partying and babies nearly eating contraceptives.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve seen any Seth Rogen film (or any frat-based comedy, for that matter), you\u2019ll more or less know what to expect. Think Knocked Up<\/em> meets American Pie <\/em>meets\u00a0This is 40<\/em>\u00a0and you\u2019re not too far off Bad Neighbours<\/em>.<\/p>\n Rogen is his usual likeable, laid-back self while Rose Byrne complements him well as his lovely-but-foul-mouthed wife. Opposite Rogen, Efron pales a bit in comparison but his frat-boy act is pretty funny, especially in the scenes he shares with Dave \u201d\u02dcBrother of James\u2019 Franco.<\/p>\n The movie boasts some great scenes too, with an Ocean\u2019s Eleven<\/em>-style set-up at one of Delta Psi\u2019s parties and a ridiculous fist-fight between Rogen and Efron being a couple of the highlights.<\/p>\n Yet beyond the gross-out humour, Bad Neighbours<\/em> is actually quite a touching and thought-provoking film about growing up. Rogen and Byrne struggle to come to terms with being parents and party (and later fight with) with the frat-boys to make up for it, while Efron doesn\u2019t think beyond his next party, despite being close to graduation.<\/p>\n Most comedy movies would deal with this by throwing in an obligatory \u201d\u02dctouching moment\u2019 scene (complete with twinkly piano background music), but Bad Neighbours<\/em> manages to balance the sentimentality and comedy throughout; one second the characters discuss life, the next Seth Rogen is being fired from a chair by an airbag. It\u2019s a weird but successful mix.<\/p>\n Bad Neighbours<\/em> doesn\u2019t break any new ground but is an enjoyable and funny film. If you love Seth Rogen and\/or Judd Apatow (who isn\u2019t actually involved in this film, but it bears all his trademarks) films, you\u2019ll love it. But don\u2019t dismiss it if you aren\u2019t a fan either – you might just be surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Years of watching Aussie soaps have taught us that everybody loves good neighbours. But what do people think of bad neighbours? Easy; they hate them and regularly subject them and their loved ones to physical violence. That\u2019s according to Bad Neighbours, at least. Bad Neighbours stars Seth Rogen and Rose …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}