Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
A sorority moves in next door to the home of Mac and Kelly Radner who have a young child. The Radner's enlist their former nemeses from the fraternity to help battle the raucous sisters.
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El reto para Buenos vecinos 2 parece aún más complicado, pues el tema central es un rubro y con un tono que desde los años setenta (con la cinta Animal House, 1978) se ha repetido frecuentemente en el cine: una comedia sobre fraternidades y sororidades, y los peculiares sujetos que las albergan.
The three 18-year-olds are Animal House-caliber partiers, but they’re partiers with a real-life point.
Take "Animal House" or "Revenge of the Nerds," and turn the gender roles inside out, and you'll have "Neighbors 2." In fact, eliminate almost all of the guys.
It’s got just about enough laughs, but there’s so much more that the Script by Committee wants to shoehorn in, like female empowerment, bad parenting passed off as “doing our best” just like our parents, gay marriage and the incredibly sexist college Greek system, a relic of the “Animal House” era that remains as “rapey” as ever.
The tagline for the wacky, weed-filled, sexy, cheerfully offensive comedy “Caddyshack” in 1980 was: “The Snobs Against the Slobs.”
The notion of making a college-set comedy that tackles patriarchal norms among students sounds intriguing until one realizes that this film is even less progressive than such similar efforts as 2007's Sydney White and 2008's The House Bunny.
The “start our own” thing idea was stolen from an Amanda Bynes comedy, “Sydney White.”
Following classic stories of friendship and sexual fumbles like Harold & Kumar and Revenge of the Nerds, Neighbors 2 is a dumb comedy that captures freshman year 2016 from a feminine perspective.
Take "Animal House" or "Revenge of the Nerds," and turn the gender roles inside out, and you'll have "Neighbors 2." In fact, eliminate almost all of the guys.
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The color schemes and decors evoke Powell-Pressburger’s “The Red Shoes” (1948) and Michael Powell’s London terror “Peeping Tom” (1960): so much movie madness in the Big Smoke.
The notion of making a college-set comedy that tackles patriarchal norms among students sounds intriguing until one realizes that this film is even less progressive than such similar efforts as 2007's Sydney White and 2008's The House Bunny.
In Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, grown men plot an Ocean's Eleven-worthy heist to pilfer marijuana from teenage girls, those same teenage girls bemoan the rapey state of America's Greek-life system, a man in a clown costume bastes Zac Efron in brisket juice, and a married couple answers the question, "What happens when you experience morning sickness during sex?"
It's not exactly Norma Rae or A League of Their Own , but the movie does bring up compelling issues about the double standards in Greek life, how girls deserve to have fun without feeling unsafe or harassed, and why the idea of "girls behaving badly" upsets people more than "boys will be boys."
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Popping up far too briefly is the forever-welcome Lisa Kudrow (2010's " Easy A "), reprising her role as forthright Dean Carol Gladstone.
His Magic Mike-style dance is an instant classic.
It’s almost impossible that a human could have Efron’s abs and his comic timing, and director Nicholas Stoller definitely makes use of both, even working in a Magic Mike–worthy dance scene.
Shot by Rogen regular Brandon Trost, "Neighbors 2" has more visual style than you might expect of a character-driven comedy, especially in a tailgate party heist sequence that sees Efron delivering a “Magic Mike”-esque dance performance as a means of distraction.
Efron as Teddy, the former frat guy who can't let go of his college lifestyle, is simply there to be objectified, a role he embraces by performing a "Magic Mike" style dance number while oiled up in barbecue grease.