Author: broderic

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is as good as a sequel can be.

That’s a damning one line review. It’s just like a sequel to not live up to the expectations of the first movie even though the first movie didn’t live up to my expectations. I came expecting more. Instead I got grown ups again and a weird fixation with parents having sex.

The sequel starts with Rose Byrne and Seth Rogan planning to sell their house and move to a more respectable one in which to raise their children. But they seem to not feel like proper parents. They have parent regrets and worries but that’s because they maybe are terrible at parenting.

Then we shift to freshmen girls attending sorority rush and finding out how disappointing greek life can be for girls — lots of sexual harassment by frats. These girls then move into the neighborhood to start a sorority that can be all it wants to be — women. They begin to party and wreck the chances of their neighbors to sell their home.

The girls and the sorority are all lead by Zack Efron. He has a quarter life crisis. His frat brothers have settled down even Franco is marrying his best man. What he does to pick himself up is to lead the sorority through making money to keep their house. Of course, being older, he falls out with the girls and then joins the neighbors to get them to stop partying for 1 month.

I actually didn’t mind the flick, but it could’ve been better. It could’ve achieved Neighbors level of hilarity but it was missing a hootie-hoo scene. It could’ve used a hootie-hoo scene. As now, several weeks later, I can’t remember a dang thing.

3 of 5 stars.

Captain America: Civil War suffers the same issues as Avengers 2: it feels bloated. It’s not the spritely First Avenger or the wonderful thriller of Winter Soldier. It’s the kitchen sink and ginormous plotting of Age of Ultron. Perhaps this comes from the source material, the Civil War comic event.

It was nothing like the book but the plot was similar. Should the government control super heroes? Should there be a licensing arm? Who watches the watchmen? It was a story that needed to be told about power and who wields it, but this movie made the scope smaller. Not a civil war between super heroes against super heroes, but Avengers versus Avengers. Small in scope. What does this mean for Marvel Cinematic Universe? The end of Captain America? The end of Iron Man? The end? We’ll have to look for X-Men to carry us to Apocalypse.

3 of 5 stars.

Here’s one of those blog posts which was in my queue and died there. I should’ve finished it weeks ago. Better late than never.

Keanu means cool mountain breeze in Hawaiian. And it was the name of the kitten in Key and Peele’s first movie, Keanu. Now like all sketch shows which spin off a feature length movie, sometimes it feels like a too long stretched out skit. Keanu has that feel. One note played over and over for laughs.

I feel this one may be a cult classic like Fridays ended up being. It’s not too funny at first but when high you’ll laugh. And like pot I think I forgot all about this film.

3 of 5 stars.