'Neighbors' Just Wants To Be The Gross Joke Next Door
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'Neighbors' Just Wants To Be The Gross Joke Next Door

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'Neighbors' Just Wants To Be The Gross Joke Next Door Enlarge this image toggle caption Universal Pictures Universal Pictures Makers of R-rated comedies face an essential dilemma: finding brand new ways to gross out their snickering adolescent viewers. Neighbors opens in an upscale suburban Anywhereville, where a house is occupied by a standard sitcom couple: goofy, pudgy dad and improbably beautiful mom. Sponsor Message The real conflict begins when a college fraternity, Delta Psi Beta, moves in next door, cramming its new home with beer, babes, noise and hallucinogenic mushrooms. As both men stand topless outside an Abercrombie & Fitch, the sculpted frat boy begins to realize that he will someday be a flabby suburban dad.

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Neighbors review: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne take aim at bro privilege in Nicholas Stoller’s gross-out comedy with Zac Efron.
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Neighbors review: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne take aim at bro privilege in Nicholas Stoller’s gross-out comedy with Zac Efron.

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“Bros before hos” stands as one of the foundational mottoes of Delta Psi Beta, the frat house headed up by Zac Efron’s Teddy in Nicholas Stoller’s new comedy Neighbors. The Delta Psis hold this bro-privileging principle sacred—in one of the movie’s funniest scenes, Teddy and his frat brother Pete engage in an extended competitive riff in which they create increasingly …

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