Neighbors “Bro’s before Neighbors”

(“Bro’s before Neighbors”)

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NEIGHBORS won the top spot at the box office its first weekend of release, which is another reason that this film should not be confused with the 1981 NEIGHBORS, which was John Belushi’s last film.

However, the plot about the arrival of rowdy new neighbors who disrupt the lives of a couple who are already living there is the same, except that the part of Dan Aykroyd has been replaced by an entire fraternity house led by Teddy, played by Zac Efron.

The couple are Mac and Kelly Radner, played by Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, they have a baby daughter named Stella, and when they see some of the shenanigans taking place next door at the Beta Psi Delta fraternity house, Kelly says to Mac, “Just because we have a house and a baby doesn’t mean that we’re old people.”

You see, at first Mac and Kelly envy the youthful exuberance of the fraternity boys and their parties attended by attractive college students of boys and hot-looking girls, and they go next door to welcome the new neighbors to the neighborhood.

Teddy accepts the fraternity’s new neighbors and their surprising gift and invites Mac and Kelly to the party of the moment so everything will be cool later.

Teddy tells Mac and Kelly that if any of the parties gets too noisy, they need to call the fraternity first and not the cops, which is a good indication of what is going to happen later, right?

Well, the fraternity brothers have a goal that they want to achieve, which the audience learns at the beginning of the movie, and to achieve that goal, they party every night, which causes Mac to call the police what he believes to be anonymously after he can’t get anyone at the party to pick up the phone.

Naturally, the fraternity brothers retaliate when they are told by the police that Mac called them, which they know because the police have caller ID.

And the game is on, escalating with each retaliation by the two parties, so to speak, culminating in an attempt by Mac and Kelly to interfere with the brothers’ mantra of “bro’s before ho’s” and get them to fight among themselves after a violation of Teddy’s relationship with his girlfriend.

NEIGHBORS is enjoyable, but probably only to young people.

I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”