10 Neighbors
Retitled Bad Neighbours in the UK firstly to correct the American spelling of ‘Neighbors’ – what is this terrible fear of the letter U? Is it a Sesame Street thing? – and also to assure British viewers that this wasn’t Ramsay Street: The Movie.
Wisely opening at the very beginning of May, this Seth Rogen comedy enjoyed a huge $49m first weekend, strafing The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in the process. A perfectly decent affair, this frat-boy caper was something of an oasis as far as comedies were concerned this summer. Adam Sandler’s Blended and Jason Segal’s Sex Tape all died at the box-office as violently as Seth MacFarlane’s Million Ways.
Great summary of the summer. I am not sure why opinions were SO mixed on Godzilla. I thought it was EASILY the best Godzilla movie of all time. I mean have the complainers actually seen any of the source material? The new Godzilla was The Godfather comparatively. Apes, Xmen and Guardians were my other favs of the summer. Disappointing though Michael Bay will be reinforced to make more Transformers of the same ilk. T4 was the worst. I liked Revenge of the Fallen better for goodness sake. Yet it still made a billion globally so another one is on the way. I mean, Optimus easily flying at the end kind of defeats the purpose of a lot of the crap from the first three doesn’t it? Sigh…..
I hear tell that Michael Bay is handing the reins to another director for Tran5formers. It would be nice if they gave it to Lars Von Trier to play with but I suspect that Louis Leterrier is already on the phone to Hasbro. Thanks for the comments