MOVIE REVIEW: "BAD NEIGHBOURS" (2014)

“BAD NEIGHBOURS” PRESS REVIEW

Do you take stock of your neighbours?

I certainly do, for want of peace and quiet.

Selfish neighbours who indulge in deafening merrymaking can drive anybody nuts.

Rogen and Byrne play this young married couple called Mac and Kelly Radner.

They are basking in the warmth of family bliss, playing proud parents to a cute baby.

Everything seems picture perfect, until a fraternity of weirdo guys move in next door bringing along the parties.

Everybody knows it’s great to be young and yes, the president Teddy (Zac Efron) swears-to-God he will reduce the din of their late night parties.

Yet he is unable to keep up with his promise of bringing the noise down as the night wears on.

Instead the situation gotten worse.

Mac has no alternative but to enlist the cops – and whosh, that’s where everything turns topsy-turvy.

The blossoming neighbourly friendship is now damaged, with both sides savagely declaring war on each other.

 This is the crux of the story, the battles of two disgruntled neighbours.

“Bad Neighbours” could have been another raunchy comedy offering sex, drugs, profanity and swear words in the style of The Hangover and Bridesmaids.

However, director Nicholas Stoller delves one step deeper.

Laugh all you can, but there is a lesson about growing up to be learned here.

For  fans of the shirtless almost-naked Zac Efron, it can be just another pure slapstick.

For the older viewers, there is a rite of passage taking-you-down-memory lane, reliving college days and learning now what’s like to be a responsible father or mother.

It is as silly-as-you-can-get, yet entertaining and uproarious in some scenes.

Check it out!

RATING: 3 out of 5

LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR:  UIP MALAYSIA (United International Pictures)

“INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2″ MOVIE REVIEW. Yet another Round of ghoulish Haunts.

“INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2″ PRESS PREVIEW

Do you believe in Ghosts?

It depends, right?

Yet before you can even pause for a soul-churning answer, hey presto ….

the film director JAMES WAN, his motley crew and cast  of “INSIDIOUS” return in a jiff to hastily whisk you off your feet and ferry you through another dimension of his ghoulish haunts, just in case you haven’t braved enough of his scares the last time.

Money spins the world, hence every film maker is eager to jump onto a proven bandwagon.

Haunted house remakes reap lucrative returns at the global box office, this much you can be assured.

For a fact, there are myriads of horror features queuing up in the pipeline for cinematic release.

All old houses have their own tales, and are reminiscent of some kinds of haunts.

So it’s mind over matter.

Are ghosts for real?

Here’s a brief synopsis for INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2:

The movie is touted by the production company as a terrifying sequel to the first one. Is it?

This time, the Lambert family is adamant about uncovering the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

They are soon to realize that the demons that possessed their youngest son have not been eradicated.

So Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) call in a variety of paranormal experts in a desperate attempt to track the origin of the nightmarish happenings.

The investigation delves into Josh’s troubled childhood and his connection to a mentally unstable man from his past, along with untold secrets from his mother (Barbara Hershey).

Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson), now a dad, is still being hounded by the supernatural, similar to how he was as a kid in 1983.

This time, his son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins) is implicated as well.

We are shown that the souls of both the dead and alive end up being caught in the “neither world”.

Josh also has to travel back in time to seek help from himself in 1983.

Confused?

Apparently so, if you do not focus.

Director JAMES WAN is trying to cramp too much  on an overloaded platter of mysterious crashes, moving objects, angry ghosts and hungry apparitions.

“INSIDIOUS CHAPTER TWO” is indeed, a watered down version of the first chapter and it has a bit of everything from all of the director’s body of work.

Ask not too many questions if you wish to enjoy the scares.

And if the box office for this Chapter 2 is encouraging, you can be assured that the excitement will continue in Chapter 3.

Righto?

Now, are you ready to go for the chills?