Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

Too much of everything

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

On paper this movie should be funny. It's not. I can't quite put my finger on why. Maybe it started poorly with a clichèd vomit scene that was just disgusting. Maybe it's that the characters are poorly written, or that the "what goes wrong?" Premises that are the staple of this kind of movie, are ludicrous. Oddly, I found the movie really annoying. Didn't even watch until the end bacause I couldn't care less what happens to the story or any of the characters.

Basically they made the same film over, only with girls. Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron) has a criminal record from the first film and a tough time getting a job. He mentors the sorority to get them started until they vote him off the island. At that point we swaps sides. Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) have their house in escrow and want to prevent loud parties for 30 days. Shelby (Chloë Grace Moretz) founded the sorority with the intent of throwing girl parties. I found their "The Fault in Our Stars" film festival where the girls cry all night was very funny as was the early poker game. The film had adult language and adult humor. And while there were several crude episodes, the film didn't entirely consist of crudeness, perhaps less crude then the first one, minus the window pelting scene.Guide: F-word, sex, no nudity. Girls in bikinis, Zac Efron stripping.

Pretty obvious idea for a sequel... It seems like it's going in an interesting and potentially amusingly fertile direction at first - looking at how the different sexes are treated in their quests to have fun... but soon, it drops that angle, and just has the girls behave in the exact same way as the guys...Don't get me wrong, I fully support women getting to do the same things as men (drinking, swearing, lots of sex, etc) with the same absence of judgement... but they need to have a different approach to it, otherwise there's no point in swapping the genders, at all.Something like "Trainwreck" succeeded where the likes of this and "Bridesmaids" stumbled, in my opinion - by managing to provide a uniquely feminine perspective on bad behaviour, and yet still being funny.

I have never imagined that the first review that I will write will be on a "movie" that I totally dislike. No plot whatsoever. If you consider that the first part of this disaster had plot, this one ruined it. Hopefully if you watched the first movie you will know who is who. This starts from nowhere and does not get anywhere. I am not a comedy watcher, but I've seen my fair share. This "movie" made me hate and laugh at all those "feminist, SJW, snowflakes etc" even more. The propaganda is really really strong in this one. Don't bother watching it. Trying to be something a comedy is not supposed to be. Generic humor, boring characters, points made on things that nobody takes seriously.