Set two years after the original movie Seth Rogen & Rose Byrne reprise their roles as Mac and Kelly Radner for this second outing in the series and this time they are expecting their second child so they want to sell their house and head out to live in the suburbs. Luckily they have found new buyers for the house and are in the middle of their 30 day escrow period (basically a month long trial) where the new buyers can pull out of the deal if there are any issues with the house inclusive of the living conditions.

At the same time Shelby (Chloe Grace Moretz) is starting her stint in college but is offended by how fraternities have parties which degrade women yet sororities are nothing other than glorified prayer meetings, so she decides to set up a sorority off campus and becomes the leader and founder of Kappa Nu which just so happens to be in the old Delta Psi Beta house next door to the Radners.

The third wheel in the tale is Teddy Sanders (Zac Effron) who lives with his old frat-brother Pete Regazoll (Dave Franco) however Pete is moving on and wants to live with his new partner meaning Teddy will need to find somewhere else to live. Teddy has nowhere else to go except his old frat-house so he sets himself up as an adviser to the new sorority. While things work well at first  the girls soon tire of him and he is homeless once again but this time he finds solace in the strangest of places as his sworn enemies from the first movie the Radners agree to let him move into their home as long as he helps them remove the new neighbours as an uneasy partnership is formed.

Like him or not Rogens comic ability cannot be questioned and, as he was in the original, he is perfectly suited to his role here. Moritz add further strings to her bow as a perfect foil to the Radners and Byrne matches Rogen all the way with some fantastic one liners and great comedic timing. Unfortunately it’s Effron who feels like the weak link and it felt like the story was amended to ensure there was a position for his character as it’s very likely that the movie would have worked just as well without him. In saying that there’s nothing wrong with Effron’s performance and what he has to do is done well it’s just that his comic moments seemed flatter and more forced than the others.

You already know what you’re getting with this movie, especially if you have watched the first one and while a large number of comedy sequels have failed miserably, this one takes the premise of the first movie, just twists the plot slightly and it still works well. While never hilarious, it is genuinely funny in parts but because most of the jokes are a repeat, or very similar to the first movie, it doesn’t quite hit the same heights as the original.

DJ Speaks Rating: 5 Out Of 10