Neighbors (I) (2014)
Critic Reviews
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100
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HitFix Drew McWeeny
Not only is it uproariously funny and almost breathtakingly dirty, it is better written than it needs to be on a character level, delivering completely on its premise.
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100
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The Wrap Inkoo Kang
What makes Neighbors exceptional, rather than merely great, is its successful attempt to reinvent the studio comedy.
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91
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The Playlist Drew Taylor
Neighbors is one of the funniest, most visually inventive studio comedies in recent memory.
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88
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
It's a party where we want to stay, until we're dragged out kicking and screaming.
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80
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The Guardian Andrew Pulver
In its current state, Neighbors is filthy, nasty and a bit too sloppy. But it'll scrub up lovely.
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80
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The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore
Very funny at the outset and escalating steadily for most of its brisk running time, the film represents a big win for neophyte screenwriters Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien.
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80
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Time Out London Ashley Clark
After a shaky start, Bad Neighbours blossoms, with inspired visual gags in excellent poor taste.
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80
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Total Film Matt Glasby
A heated, hysterical battle between Apatow smarts and Animal House smirks. Subtlety takes a hazing, but humour emerges with honours.
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80
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Film.com Jordan Hoffman
You'll laugh if you're young, you'll laugh if you're old.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Richard Roeper
About 40 percent of Neighbors falls flat. About 60 percent made me laugh hard, even when I knew I should have known better.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Neighbors is the "Animal House" for an era in which food fights seem quaint.
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75
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
You expect hardcore hilarity from Neighbors, and you get it. It's the nuance that sneaks up on you.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Neighbors is funny for all 96 of its minutes, not counting the credits, and it contains the single best sight gag of the year so far. (We're talking laugh-out-loud funny and then laugh again later, just thinking about it.)
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75
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Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
One part smart, one part stupid and three parts jokes about body parts, the extremely raunchy Neighbors is a strange success story.
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75
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Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
The result is a funny and raucously lewd comedy fueled with enough penis jokes to keep an actual fraternity in stitches for a trimester.
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70
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Variety Andrew Barker
Lewder, weirder, louder, leaner, meaner and more winningly stupid than anything its director Nicholas Stoller and star Seth Rogen have ever been involved with before, frat comedy Neighbors boasts an almost oppressive volume of outrageous gags.
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70
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The Dissolve Genevieve Koski
While it's occasionally distasteful, it's an engaging hangout film from beginning to end, thanks to its game performances and smart direction.
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63
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Movie Nation Roger Moore
The fun is supposed to build from the elaborate plots the marrieds and the bros engage in to foil each other. Only, it doesn't.
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60
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Empire Olly Richards
A few big laughs but weakly drawn characters mean a film that is enjoyable enough in the moment but then quickly forgotten.
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60
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The Telegraph Tim Robey
Genres don't come much more formulaic than frat-house comedy, and nobody, in this fair-to-fine example, feels like rocking the boat.
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50
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Slant Magazine
The promo materials implore viewers to vote either #TeamFrat or #TeamFamily on Twitter, though the audience is way more likely to be split between #TeamPecEfron and #TeamByrneBoobsplosion.
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20
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New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Neighbors stakes its claim in suburban-property cliches. Given the dull, stale results, maybe the end of the world was a better fit.
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