Cert 15
96 mins
BBFC advice: Contains very strong language, drug use, strong sex, crude sex references, nudity
Give me strength! Another film in which Seth Rogen plays a nerd who smokes lots of cannabis.
Clearly there must be a market for the kind of humour but, as I've written so many times before, it leaves me cold.
It's a shame that director Nicholas Stoller has followed Rogen down his predictable weed-laden path because I have previously considered him a director who has real comic flair.
Even during Bad Neighbours there are two scenes when Mrs W and I laughed out loud. But these were rare moments in an otherwise dreary 96 minutes.
Of course, neither Rogen nor Stoller are likely to be interested the opinions of a middle-aged married couple.
But what they should be more worried about was how few chuckles came from the rest of the audience at Nottingham Cineworld on Monday.
The concept of Bad Neighbours is that a college fraternity, led by an extreme party animal (Zac Efron), moves in next door to two new parents (Rogen and Rose Byrne) of a very cute baby.
Thus, they initially make friends with the college kids, a neighbourhood war breaks out.
To be fair, there is a decent chemistry between Rogen and the enticingly manic Byrne and it is their relationship which sparks the laughs.
But the behaviour of the unrepentant students become more predictably boorish and the storyline becomes duller and duller.
It's not the worst film in which Rogen has appeared (Pineapple Express is one of the most ghastly movies ever made) but it doesn't have enough gags which I found funny or hadn't already seen in the trailer.
Laughs: Four
Jumps: none
Vomit: yes
Nudity: yes
Overall rating: 5.5/10