Irishchatter John was such a great actor on this, I'm really devastated that he is not with us today and didn't do more movies. I really liked his role as a serious quiet guy who is easily irritated by the neighbors next door. Believe me, I'm pretty sure we all have those types of people living next door to us haha!It was so odd to see Dan Aykroyd with Blondish hair. I'm normally use to seeing him always with brown hair in most of his films. I kinda did figure out that he had blue contacts instead of his usual brown eyes. They were stronger when he was talking on the phone. I say they hurt!Cathy Moriarty was such a blonde bombshell in this film. She looked like a sexy Grace Kelly trying to get at John Belushi's character. They should've been in bed together and I wanted this right from the start! I love this movie, I wish that Belushi and Akyroyd would do more if Belushi didn't unfortunately too soon. They were such a great team and they will always be the Blues Brothers that I always look up to!RIP Belushi <3 <3 <3

capone666 Neighbors The irony of neighbours is that you often kill them with the same tool you borrowed from them.However, the aggravated neighbour in this dark comedy is liable to use his bare-hands.Despondent suburbanite Earl (John Belushi) is jolted from his mundane existence when an unconventional couple (Dan Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty) moves in next-door.Unnerved by his forwardness and her flirtatiousness, Earl is confused as to why they moved into his quiet community.He soon begins to draw his own conclusions, which ultimately leads to paranoia and self-destruction. A satire on suburban bliss, Neighbors finds both its SNL alumni playing against their type in order to create a truly eccentric comedy.Based on the delusional bestseller by Thomas Berger, this undervalued psychological comedy from the '80s is an excellent commentary on the confines of safety and sanity.Furthermore, you should only interact with your neighbours if they have a pool.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Michael_Elliott Neighbors (1981) ** (out of 4) A simple man and his wife (John Belushi, Kathryn Walker) have their lives turned upside down when new neighbors (Dan Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty) move in. NEIGHBORS is a downright horrendous, awful movie that is so incredibly bad that it's always held a slight fascination with me. Now I love watching bad movies and there are times that films (like PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE) are so bad that they end up being entertaining. That's not really the case with this film because it's not entertaining. The only entertainment comes from you simply being amazed at how poor the film came out as well as countless questions you ask about certain things going on. I don't mind that Belushi and Aykroyd switched roles but I think the film probably would have been better had they not. I know throughout the troubled production that both stars were very upset with John G. Avildsen and accused him of not knowing how to do comedy. Perhaps this is true but I'm confused to where the comedy was at. I mean there's really nothing in the screenplay that is funny. The entire film seems to have nothing going for it and it appears that the only attempts at humor is that Belushi is playing it straight and Aykroyd is going over-the-top. There's no funny dialogue. No funny sequences. There's just nothing but a flat tone that is more dark than anything else. Just take a look at the sequence with the electric dog. What was the point of this? And lets not even get started with the ending. Both Belushi and Aykroyd are pretty bad here but considering what was going on in their lives I guess this is to be expected. Of the two I'd say Aykroyd gets the more memorable part simply because his character is more annoying. Walker really doesn't add too much to the film but Moriarty is at least somewhat good as the bad girl. Another questionable thing going on here is the beyond awful music score that is all over the place. With all that said, I've still got some connection to this movie that makes me watch it every so often. It's not "so bad it's good" but NEIGHBORS really falls into its own separate category.

JoeKarlosi One of those divisive films that you either can enjoy somewhat or utterly despise. It's without any doubt one of the most hated dark -- and I mean DARK -- comedies of all time, and for that reason alone it's worth at least one watch just to see which side you stand on. It's the last film made by 'Saturday Night Live' veteran John Belushi (who died of drug abuse only a few months after its release), along with his Blues Brothers partner Dan Aykroyd. It's at least an interesting turnabout in character for Belushi, who plays a straight, stuffy middle-aged couch potato named Earl who's leading a humdrum existence with his bored housewife. Their empty life at this point consists of never speaking, watching television, and defrosting frozen waffles for dinner. One evening their stagnant routine is shaken up when a strange and boisterous neighbor called Vic (Aykroyd) and his slutty woman Ramona (Cathy Moriarty) take residence in the only house next to them. Immediately Vic and Ramona set about teasing and tormenting poor Earl with twisted gags and practical jokes, and it isn't long before even Earl's wife gets hip to the act. The humor throughout is very black comedy, very one-note, very much like Earl is a victim lost in a bizarre Twilight Zone episode. The laughs are not drop-dead funny, nor are they abundant, but there are some choice moments that spark (the "spaghetti dinner" scene, the "quicksand", and "the coffee cup"). It helps to have some idea of what you're in for, such as Belushi playing straight man to Aykroyd, and you definitely need to adopt a certain offbeat mindset to get anything out of it. It can have its moments, or it can be unending torture. ** out of ****