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The old fraternity house next door to Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne has moved away… but now there’s a sorority there — and the girls are even worse than the boys were. Rogen and Byrne seek out their old fraternity nemesis, Zac Efron, to help them banish the boozie babes. I enjoyed the first Neighbors because it gave Rogen, Byrne, Dave Franco, and surprisingly, Efron, plenty of breathing room to be funny and carry the movie on the sheer weight of their personalities. This one feels more confined and is definitely a lot less funny. It also spends too much time on the new sorority characters, including one played by Chloe Grace Moretz. I don’t give a shit about stupid sorority chick stock characters, but Neighbors 2 feels oddly compelled to make them the central characters of the movie this time around, making it much less Rogen and Efron’s movie. Why would you take a movie from Seth Rogen and Zac Efron’s abs and give it to stock sorority characters? It’s a bad move overall. And where’s Dave Franco? He was my favorite part of the first movie, but this time he barely gets a cameo appearance. Sad face.