The dreaded sequel. Over the years, it has trained us to recoil in disgust at the mere thought of it. We conjure up the image of studio executives huddled around a table and after hours of deliberation have a eureka moment
"Let's take a previously successful film and create a continuation of it. We're bound to be rolling in the big bucks!" After an exchange of pats on the back, they call it a day and go home to their mansions where they sleep soundly on their thousand thread count sheets.
Cut to the release of said sequel and there is a unanimous groan let out by movie-lovers around the world. As much as I enjoyed the film Bad Neighbours (or just Neighbors to my American friends out there), I wasn't too sure how a second film would fare. Having said all of this, you can surely sense that I had extremely low expectations for Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising (if you can't sense that, then you really need a lesson in reading sub-text).
Setting the bar low actually gave the second film a boost in my eyes (or maybe it was just a decent film!) but I found it just as funny as the first one. Granted, I still don't think either film is necessarily the funniest in the world but they deliver on what they promise. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are back but this time they team up with their previous enemy, frat-boy-turned-Abercrombie-greeter Zac Efron (and ladies, prepare yourselves we are presented with several shirtless scenes with both himself AND Seth Rogen I know, too much sexiness to deal with). This time around, the couple have to deal with an even more raucous group who have moved in next door – Chloe Grace Moretz and her newly- created posse of sorority sisters.
With as much ridiculousness of the previous film in the franchise, this is a good no-brainer comedy that's an easy watch – a film that you can switch on if you want to actually 'switch off'.
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Cut to the release of said sequel and there is a unanimous groan let out by movie-lovers around the world. As much as I enjoyed the film Bad Neighbours (or just Neighbors to my American friends out there), I wasn't too sure how a second film would fare. Having said all of this, you can surely sense that I had extremely low expectations for Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising (if you can't sense that, then you really need a lesson in reading sub-text).
Setting the bar low actually gave the second film a boost in my eyes (or maybe it was just a decent film!) but I found it just as funny as the first one. Granted, I still don't think either film is necessarily the funniest in the world but they deliver on what they promise. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are back but this time they team up with their previous enemy, frat-boy-turned-Abercrombie-greeter Zac Efron (and ladies, prepare yourselves we are presented with several shirtless scenes with both himself AND Seth Rogen I know, too much sexiness to deal with). This time around, the couple have to deal with an even more raucous group who have moved in next door – Chloe Grace Moretz and her newly- created posse of sorority sisters.
With as much ridiculousness of the previous film in the franchise, this is a good no-brainer comedy that's an easy watch – a film that you can switch on if you want to actually 'switch off'.
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