( EW.com ) -- Seth Rogen was recently quoted in an Entertainment Weekly magazine article as saying that there have been only one and a half good movies ever made about frat life : `` Animal House '' and the first half of `` Old School . '' I 'd throw 1984 's `` Revenge of the Nerds '' into the mix , but I get his point . Too few comedies have been able to capture the gonzo , bacchanalian spirit of the Greek system with some degree of wit . Well , now you can add Rogen 's raucously inspired `` Neighbors '' to the honor roll . It 's a frat-house flick with more on its mind than beer , bongs , and beer bongs . It 's also a razor-sharp commentary on desperately trying to remain carefree after the burdens of adulthood have taken over . Critical Mass : Is 'Neighbors ' the season 's best comedy ? Directed by `` Forgetting Sarah Marshall 's '' Nicholas Stoller , `` Neighbors '' stars Rogen and Rose Byrne as Mac and Kelly Radner , a 30-something couple with a newborn daughter , a sensible station wagon , and a crushing mortgage on a house littered with breast pumps and baby monitors . What they do n't have is any of the spontaneity of their 20s . Exhibit A : As the film opens , Rogen and Byrne are getting hot and heavy in the bedroom , only to realize that their baby is watching Daddy tell Mommy he 's about to take her to `` Bonertown . '' Plans to go out clubbing with their less exhausted single friends go just about as well . Then one morning , moving trucks show up next door and unload a sea of whooping , Solo-cup-clutching frat boys . Led by the chiseled , vacant alpha dog Teddy ( Zac Efron ) and his Abercrombie wingman Pete ( Dave Franco ) , the guys of Delta Psi Beta proceed to turn Mac and Kelly 's quiet , tree-lined slice of suburban heaven into a hedonistic hell . At first , Mac and Kelly see their new neighbors as an opportunity to prove that they 're more than just the sum of their Pack ' n Plays , that they 're still down to party and reclaim their laid-back youth . The couple obliviously try to cozy up with Teddy and Pete , but every time they hope to show how cool they are , it becomes more and more clear that they 're just the annoying old buzzkills next door . And when the raging gets a bit too epic and the meatheads refuse to keep it down , it 's war . The two sides launch into a hilarious volley of tit-for-tat pranks that gradually escalates into a gross-out gag Armageddon with obscene topiaries and gargantuan dildos as the weapons of battle . James Franco may play Tommy Wiseau in film based on 'The Disaster Artist ' One of the best surprises in Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien 's script is its refusal to succumb to lazy sitcom stereotypes , which would set Rogen up as the oafish Kevin James man-child and Byrne as the nag . Instead , Kelly is as foul-mouthed , shallow , and irresponsible as her husband . Speaking in her native Aussie twang , Byrne shows that she 's a deadpan comic ace . And thanks to her chemistry with Rogen , `` Neighbors '' proves that just because you grow up does n't mean you have to be a grown-up . You can still be wild and crazy even as you 're yelling at the kids next door to get the hell off your lawn . Grade : B+ . See the original story at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
Seth Rogen and Zac Efron have made a raucous , inspired comedy . Score: 6 The critic gives the movie a B+ grade .