{"id":33539,"date":"2014-05-08T23:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T03:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33539"},"modified":"2014-05-08T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T02:25:12","slug":"new-releases-may-9-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/08\/new-releases-may-9-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: May 9, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Neighborsposter\"<\/a>1. Neighbors (Universal, 3,279 Theaters, 96 Minutes, Rated R):\u00a0 <\/strong>Back in 1981, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd co-starred in a film called Neighbors. <\/strong>That film featured a suburban man whose peaceful life was interrupted when a wild neighbor moved in (In a reversal of type, Aykroyd played the wild card, Belushi played the nebbish suburbanite). Audienceswere expecting a wild and ribald film from the pair. What they got was a weird and creepy big budget art film.<\/p>\n

It’s looks like that audience might be getting what they expected out of this version. The plots are similar, only this time, it’s a frat house that’s moving into suburbia. Seth Rogen plays a new father who must battle with a fraternity led by Zac Efron that has moved in next door.<\/p>\n

It does provide an interesting take on the whole battling neighbors genre. But would a frat house really move into the suburbs? And wouldn’t Rogen be partially to blame for living so close to a university?<\/p>\n