Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
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by Andrew J. Cohen
Brendan O'Brien
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Music by Michael Andrews
Cinematography Brandon Trost
Edited by Zene Baker
Production
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Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release dates
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  • May 20, 2016 (2016-05-20) (United States)
Running time
 92 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $35 million[2]
Box office $77.5 million[3]

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising[4] (released as Bad Neighbours 2 outside North America) is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Nicholas Stoller and written by Stoller, Andrew J. Cohen, Brendan O'Brien, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. It is the sequel to the 2014 film Neighbors and stars Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Chloë Grace Moretz, Dave Franco and Ike Barinholtz. It was released on May 20, 2016, in the United States, received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed over $77 million.[3][5]

Plot

Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly Radner (Rose Byrne) are trying to have sex, but Kelly starts feeling nauseous and burps a lot before finally throwing up on Mac's face. She then announces that she might be pregnant. The Radners then are trying to sell their home in order to pay for the new larger house they recently purchased in preparation for the arrival of another baby. A couple, the Baiers' (Sam Richardson and Abbi Jacobson) are looking to buy, but the realtor (Liz Cackowski) tells Mac and Kelly that their house is in escrow for 30 days, so the Baiers' will check in every now and then to make sure everything is going okay. Little Stella (Elise and Zoey Vargas) then enters with one of Kelly's dildos. At work, Mac has lunch with his friend Jimmy (Ike Barinholtz). Like the Radners, Jimmy and his once-again wife Paula (Carla Gallo) are expecting a baby. Mac is a little nervous about having another kid, but he thinks he'll do a fine job as he and Kelly have done well with Stella.

Somewhere on college campus, a group of freshmen girls are gathered at a welcoming meeting for the sorority Phi Lamda. One girl, Shelby (Chloe Grace Moretz), sparks up a joint as the Phi Lamda president (Selena Gomez) is speaking. She tells Shelby to put out the joint and says that according to the Greek system laws in the US, sororities can't throw parties on their own properties, so they just attend fraternity parties. That night, Shelby meets two other freshmen, Beth (Kiersey Clemons) and Nora (Beanie Feldstein), and attend a frat party, but they're all disgusted by the sexist and perversely objectifying nature of the party. They go back to their dorm to pass a joint, which is Nora's first time doing drugs and she immediately falls in love with them. The RA (Kyle Mooney) then enters and scolds the girls for smoking weed. Shelby then stands up and says it's unfair that they have to subject to a misogynistic system and to be told what to do by older men. They decide to create their own sorority, Kappa Nu.

Meanwhile, Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron) has a dinner gathering with his roommate/best friend Pete (Dave Franco) and his old Delta Psi frat brothers Scoonie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and Garf (Jerrod Carmichael). Since graduating, Scoonie has launched his own app, Garf has become a cop, and Pete has become a successful architectural designer and has come out without telling Teddy first. Teddy hasn't been able to get a decent job, since his antics as a frat boy in the previous movie led to him getting a criminal record (which he blames on the Radners). Pete's boyfriend Darren (John Early) then proposes to Pete, and he accepts. After the excitement, Pete asks Teddy to move out of the apartment now that he's engaged. Teddy agrees, hiding his heartbreak.

The Kappa Nu girls meet with another realtor (Billy Eichner) to rent the old Delta Psi house next to the Radners, but it is way too expensive for them to afford. Teddy, who happens to sneak in seeking emotional refuge in his old house, appears from the darkened living room and offers to help the girls, which the girls agree. He tells them to take their money and put it on the down payment, and he will come up with plans to earn them enough money needed to pay for the house, which he says would equal about five buckets of money for a month's rent. Soon the girls move in and throw their first party. Mac and Kelly see it and walk over to meet the new neighbors, horrified to learn they are a hard-partying sorority. The two ask Shelby to try keeping the activity down for the next month until their sale is finalized, but Teddy appears and informs the Radners that he is in cahoots with the sorority, meaning they will have more trouble keeping the buyers from pulling out.

Teddy collects his stuff out of Pete's apartment, leading him to snap at Pete when Pete calls him out on not having much to fall back upon since they left college, as well as for never knowing that Pete was gay until recently. To get the sorority out, Mac and Kelly call Shelby's father (Kelsey Grammer) to deal with her, but her dad backs off after Shelby confronts him and insists that she is trying to be independent and standing up against the sexist system. Shelby, Beth and Nora then declare war against the Radners for snitching on them. The sorority then begins pranking the Radners, using their sexuality as weapon. All the girls invade the Radners' front lawn physically (and sexually) harassing Mac as he tries to get into his car to work, not deterred by Kelly's attempt to disperse them with a garden hose (which is "only making them sexier", according to Mac), and later begins to routinely pelt the Radners' windows with menstrual blood-soaked used tampons. They also throw wild parties and even cry out loud when they have a viewing party for The Fault in Our Stars. Mac and Kelly report them to Dean Gladstone (Lisa Kudrow), but she refuses to do anything because Kappa Nu is an independent sorority outside the college administration.

Mac then gets Jimmy to help him retaliate by infecting the whole house with bed bugs, forcing the sorority girls to pay for an exterminator to fumigate the house, reducing their budget down to only two money buckets. In need of money fast, the girls decide to use the school's tailgate party that weekend and sell marijuana to the students. Teddy expresses his displeasure with the scheme (and the tampon prank), saying they're making the same mistakes he has made years ago. The girls ignore his sincere lecturing and secretly text each other to vote him out of the house. Shelby then anonymously calls the police to inform on the other weed dealers on campus, leading to Garf and Officer Watkins (Hannibal Buress) to go on a racially-charged arresting spree, giving Kappa Nu the virtual monopoly on the cannabis market.

After being evicted, Teddy decides to switch side and join forces with the Radners (plus Jimmy and Paula) to take down the sorority, and they all go to the tailgate event disguised as students. Teddy distracts all the girls by dancing topless on stage, while Mac runs around stealing the weed in a garbage bag. Teddy loses the crowd's attention when he goes too far and decides to whip out his genital, and Shelby notices Mac committing the theft. A heated pursue then follows, and Mac eventually manages to get away with the weed after switching bags with Jimmy. The sorority girls then retaliate by Shelby and Beth sneaking into the Radner's house and switching Mac and Kelly's phone numbers with their own, and then send fake text messages to Mac and Kelly. Kelly is led to believe Mac is leaving her and hiding somewhere that only Jimmy knows, so she and Paula breaks in on him at work to violently interrogate him. Mac ends up rushing to Sydney, Australia (Kelly's hometown) because he is made to think Kelly has left him. When he gets back, Mac and Kelly find their home robbed during their absence by the sorority, their furnitures sold on street and the house graffiti-ed with "Kappa Nu" spray-painted on the wall. This causes the Baiers' to pull out from the deal. The Radners then freak out and think they've done a bad job as parents to Stella.

With no money to pay the rent, the girls find an eviction notice on their door. With barely any money to support themselves, Shelby says the only way they can win is to abandon their previous standards and resort to having a basic frat party with more sex appeal. They advertise the party to everyone on campus, leading to more people showing up and paying for entry to the house. Mac, Kelly, Jimmy, Paula and Teddy watch and then plan to shut the whole thing down. Jimmy and Paula sneak into the party while Teddy tries to switch off the power. Teddy gets into the electrical box, but the girls have a backup power source (pledges dressed as Minions pedalling generators on bikes). Jimmy ends up getting roofied after drinking the party punch (so does Nora) despite Teddy's warning. Shelby runs to the Radner house to steal their phone so they can't call the cops, but she gets yanked falling flat on her back since she didn't expect the landline phone to be corded. She bites it off and runs away with their cell phones, with Mac and Teddy chasing her to the garage, but Shelby locks them in there. They resolve to break out by jumping through the ceiling vent using the airbags from an old car. Teddy goes first but misses and hits his head hard on the ceiling. Mac then jumps and misses as well, but manages to ram down the entire door upon impact.

The girls then realize they hate the way the party is going since the frat boys are being crude and perverted. Beth and Nora decide to quit the sorority and blame Shelby for the disaster, leading the other girls to leave as well. Shelby tries to stop them and says she only started this to have friends, unlike in high school when she had no one. The other girls cry and bemoan not having their new friends anymore. Mac and Kelly watch, initially thinking they've won, but later start to feel sorry for the girls. Kelly shouts to the girls and encourages them to reconcile and go back to what they believed in before they sold out, and the girls then kick the frat boys out to have a normal party. This attracts all of the Phi Lambda girls, who want to pledge for Kappa Nu. By the end of the night, the girls make enough money not only to keep the sorority house, but also offer to rent the Radners' house as an overflow property for the parties. Mac and Kelly happily agree to be the landlords, as long as they get paid five buckets of money per month. Meanwhile, Paula is going into labor, which she doesn't know about until the baby's leg is hanging out. Teddy runs back to Pete's place and apologizes to him for flipping out on him, and Pete and Darren forgive him.

Three months later, Teddy is helping with Pete's wedding with Darren, having himself becoming a popular wedding planner primarily for gay couples (Pete jokingly attributes Teddy's new-found career success to his physical attractiveness). Mac and Kelly have now moved into their new home, bringing home their new baby, Mildred, to join Jimmy and Paula with their new son. Stella goes to play with her new sister.

Cast

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Production

Development

By early February 2015, a sequel to Neighbors was in development, with Nicholas Stoller set to return to direct. Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien returned to write the film, along with Stoller, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg.[6] The film follows Mac and Kelly joining forces with Delta Psi frat leader Teddy to take on the sorority girls who move in next door. Rogen, Rose Byrne, and Zac Efron returned to star. The film was initially scheduled to begin principal photography in mid-2015.[7]

Casting

In July 2015, Chloë Grace Moretz joined the cast,[8] and the title was revealed to be Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising.[9] On August 4, 2015, it was confirmed that Carla Gallo and Ike Barinholtz would be returning for the sequel.[10] On August 7, 2015, Beanie Feldstein and Kiersey Clemons were added to the cast to play Moretz's character's sorority sisters.[11] On August 13, 2015, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Dave Franco would return for the sequel.[12] Selena Gomez was seen filming on set.[4] Lisa Kudrow was also spotted filming, along with other cast.[13] By September 24, 2015, Billy Eichner had joined the cast of the film.[14] The same month, it was revealed that Hannibal Buress and Jerrod Carmichael had been cast in the film, reprising their roles from the first film.[15] Clara Mamet and Nora Lum also joined the cast.[16] On November 18, 2015, it was announced that Cameron Dallas had joined the cast, although his scenes were later cut.[17] In December 2015, it was revealed that Abbi Jacobson had also joined the cast,[18] followed by Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Liz Cackowski, and Brian Huskey, all reprising their roles from the first film.[19]

Filming

Principal photography began on August 31, 2015, in Dunwoody, Georgia,[20][21] and ended on October 29, 2015.[22]

In March 2016, Moretz was spotted filming reshoots in Los Angeles.[23]

Post-production

During post-production, Lena Dunham, LL Cool J, and Cameron Dallas's scenes were all cut from the film.[24][25][26][27]

Release

On February 6, 2015, Universal Pictures scheduled the film for release on May 13, 2016.[28] However, on July 27, 2015, the film was moved back a week to May 20, 2016.[29]

Reception

Box office

As of May 29, 2016, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising has grossed $38.3 million in North America and $36.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $74.8 million, against a budget of $35 million.[3]

In North America, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising opened on May 20, 2016, alongside The Angry Birds Movie and The Nice Guys, and was projected to gross $35–40 million from 3,384 theaters in its opening weekend.[30][31] The film grossed $1.7 million during its Thursday night previews (lower than the original's $2.5 million) and $8.7 million on its first day.[32] In its opening weekend the film grossed $21.8 million, less than half both the previous film's opening ($49 million) and projections, and finished third at the box office behind The Angry Birds Movie ($39 million) and Captain America: Civil War ($33.1 million).[33]

Internationally, where it is known as Bad Neighbours 2, the film will be released in a total of 56 countries.[34] It was released in 16 markets on May 6, 2016, where it earned $8 million in its opening weekend. The United Kingdom and Ireland posted the top opening for the film with $2.4 million, followed by Australia with $1.8 million and $1.5 million in Germany.[34]

Critical response

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising has received generally positive reviews from critics.[5][35] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 63%, based on 155 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising may not be strictly necessary, but it still wrings a surprising amount of humor from a recycled premise with a distaff twist."[36] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 58 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[37] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, the same grade earned by its predecessor.[33]

Mike Ryan of Uproxx gave the film a positive review, writing, "In a world in which so many comedy sequels fail, here comes a comedy sequel that isn’t just 'as good as the first movie,' it’s even better."[38] The Guardian awarded it two stars out of five, saying, "This pretty routine follow-up has some decent material and amiable bad taste, heavily diluted with gallons of very ordinary sequel product: more of the same."[39]

Accolades

Award Category Recipient Result Ref.
Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie Actor: Comedy Zac Efron Pending [40]
Choice Movie Actress: Comedy Chloë Grace Moretz Pending

References

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