I want to say this. I will not be writing a The Fault in our Stars review. I have seen it, and the reason that I will not write a review is that I don't want to sound like of broken record. Bottom line I looooooved it, and the entire thing made me feel very good as well as quite satisfied. The reason for no review. Well I'm sure you've heard this over and over and over. Other than that I have nothing to write about it. Here's a movie that I do have something to write about. Neighbors is very similar to the movie Filth in many ways. That's not to say that they are the same type of movie they are not, but they share one attribute. They may come off as comedies,but they have a deep, dark core that is not to be messed with. The difference between the two is one of them is actually funny, and the other one is not. Neighbors as you probably have figured is about a couple with a baby who has just settled in. Then a fraternity moves into the house next door. This couple tries to be friendly, but eventually is lead into a serious grudge match with the frat. This builds, and build up to a quite shocking conclusion. Neighbors surprisingly is not that funny of a movie. The comedy is somewhat disposable. I did not come off in a joking mood after this. I came of in a mood of as if I had just watched a complete mind**** movie like Black Swan. I mean sure the gags that include airbags shooting people across the room, and a Heisenberg baby are funny, but much of the comedy material feels as if it is really attempting to mask what is really going on. What is really going on? How far would you go to capture your old life? Well for the couple in the film (Seth Rogan, and Rose Byrne) pretty far. How far would you go to make sure that your life is the best it can be for the time that it will be the best? Well for the president of the frat Delta Sai Teddy (Zac Effron) pretty far. For a moment let me elaborate on Efron's character. The reality is I was surprised just how tragic he turned out to be. This movie tries to show why characters in big stupid comedies actually act the way that they do. Efron's character for example starts off as a frat guy, and then suddenly as the movie continues he realizes that the partying, and such that he has been doing has ultimately doomed him for the time being. That's not to say that the film says that the partying is bad it's just that he has realized that he hasn't studied, and in his future he will not be successful. Deep huh. Yeah. This whole arch culminates in a genuinely touching moment of Efron realizing that he will ultimately fail, and saves his frat brothers who have more promise then him. It sounds trivial, but the reality is that this is the most interesting thing that is in the film. Efron is fantastic in the role, and by the ending you can tell that he is very desperate. I felt sorry for the guy. The couple has a good more decent into madness arch though. These are two people with a baby who just don't want to give up they're lives. But it's just the Efron story connected to me more. I know that this has kind of been scattershot or at least it feels like it has been, but what I'm trying to convey is that oddly Neighbors doesn't survive on it's comedy. It does so on the scary realizations that it's characters encounter. These frankly when one looks at them are encounters that all of us will have to face. Neighbors is not a very funny movie, but the underlining drama that really makes it. I was shocked by the deep levels that this film went. A spectacular performance from Zac Efron. This leads me to give Neighbors a 7 out of 10.
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