Les voisins 2 : La hausse de la sororité

Feu roulant de gags vulgaires porté par la réalisation vivante de Nicholas Stoller, de retour aux commandes, cette suite de l'hilarant Neighbors exploite avec une joie féroce les conflits générationnels et les vertus du néo-féminisme. 

S'il n'est pas l'essence d'un projet mercantile comme Neighbors 2, le commentaire social transmis à travers Chloë Grace Moretz et sa bande permet d'ingénieusement leur offrir un capital de sympathie, à défaut de véritablement renouveler le genre.

Ultimement, outre certains gags tombant à plat (notamment ses blagues scatologiques ou encore un échange de textos trop long ne menant absolument nul part…), cette suite est littéralement une version 2.0 du Neighbors d'origine… ce qui n'est pas aussi péjoratif qu'il y paraît.  

Neighbors 2 maintains the same sort of raucous and outrageous humor that made the first one so much fun, illustrating the difference between pot-smoking 30-ish parents and out-of-control wild children, and the jokes and set pieces here land as well as they did before

Zac Efron's faded fratboy lends unexpected poignancy to this raucous, unexpectedly of-the-moment comedy sequel.

The scenario is so thin that the movie pretty much repeats the same « what are we gonna do? » scene at the sorority house less than ten minutes after the first one. This seems either more or less quizzical on learning that the movie has five credited screenwriters.

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is an unexpected joy to watch. The script by Andrew Jay Cohen, Brendan O'Brien, Nicholas Stoller, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg retains the sense of goofy - and occasionally dark - comedy better than you may anticipate for a sequel.

You'll probably laugh hard more than once; Sorority Rising is still rich in bikinis and bong rips and boner jokes. It just doesn't have much heart.

Rogen and his crew aren't delivering anything fresh, but in this case familiarity doesn't breed  contempt, just more laughs.

Heaven help the next generation of American women if Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising represents what Hollywood thinks of them. In Nicholas Stoller's sequel to his 2014 Neighbors, even the with-it girls - the ones too freethinking to join a cookie-cutter sorority - are so dumb they make the bros in the first movie look like elder statesmen.