Neighbors (2014)

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A college fraternity moves in next door to a married couple with a new baby. Shenanigans ensue when the two households try everything they can think of to get the other party to move. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne play the new parents, and the fraternity is led by Zac Efron and Dave Franco (James’ little brother). The cast have enough charisma to carry the piece and the script by Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien offers a handful of memorable (albeit naughty) comic set-pieces, including an emergency ‘milking’ that Rogen must perform on his wife’s swollen breasts, and Rose Byrne’s military-like execution of a plan to infiltrate and disintegrate the fraternity by putting ‘hos’ before ‘bros’. Franco proves every bit as fun and endearing as his older brother, easily outshining Efron. And props to Rogen for baring his man-flesh as often (or possibly more) than super-buffed Efron bares his. Friends co-star Lisa Kudrow is memorable as a iron-willed Dean who’ll do anything to protect the college’s reputation.

Directed by Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, writer for The Muppets and Muppets: Most Wanted). With Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

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