Neighbors

John Belushi? John Belushit.

Opens with a bafflingly long white-on-black credit sequence and Conti's instantly torturous score starts trickling down your spine like battery acid and baby you just know things ain't getting any better. Reading Woodward's Belushi book I thought there was no way the actual movie could be as rough as described, but it is shockingly lousy, the most consummately misjudged comedy of its time and a flu-minous negative ideal for all eras past, present, and flu-ture. At least Lee Ving didn't get paid.

I remember watching this as a kid and being very confused, so i thought that a rewatch might reveal some subtly subversive comedic gem. Sadly no, this is really just an inept, incredibly misdirected film with maybe the worst soundtrack ever. It is a bit "weird" in some sense, but more because of how misguided it is than the humor, which is maybe only "subversive" in very tame and silly way if that (and not really at all funny on any level i could find). So yeah, my reaction as a kid was right.

The switching of Aykroyd and Belushi's usual roles of "wild-man/straight-man" was a stroke of genius. Sadly, this is a complete car crash of a movie. The infamous production problems really show as the pacing and tone is all over the place. For such an offbeat comedy; John G. Avildsen's direction is very flat and functional and the actors seem to be doing all the work for themselves. An interesting curio, but sadly a missed opportunity, given this was Belushi's swansong as an actor.

For some reason I remembered this movie being black and white...and funny. Wrong on both counts.

Pointless and shallow. The "message" at the end is simplistic (and 10 years out of date). The oft-noted switcheroo of the two lead actors had I think very little to do with the problems here. Oh well, at least it was better than the book (I couldn't get past the first chapter). And this is the most talent I've ever seen Kazurinsky show (hard to believe Belushi was one of his biggest fans).

A dark comedy that works in part by reversing our expectations of John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Almost certainly the best movie not available on DVD.

One of the worst films I have ever seen.

A true (and sort of amazing) piece of insanity. I say it's just a hallucinogenic (psychotic break) for Belushi's character. Or a nightmare. I was thinking the entire thing could be Belushi's character falling asleep in front of the TV, and having a bad dream encompassing all genres of stuff he watches on TV. War movies (indians, nazi's), Sci-fi (the glowing power lines), horror (the swamp of quicksand). I mean, why not, right?

Extra points for its uniqueness and originality. You'd expect more laughs from Belushi and Ackroyd, but it's pretty entertaining.

Wow, this is a lousy, lazy, misguided, unfunny, tone-deaf piece of junk. A comically loud, overzealous score puts an exclamation point on the whole thing. I couldn't finish it (there was no need), and that almost never happens.

A nightmare-comedy, or a comedy of nightmares, or a chamber drama of manners. So exceedingly weird that I'm not quite sure what to do with it; is its ramshackle approach to humor the result of invention or incompetence? The deliberate surreality of sequences like, say, Belushi and Aykroyd as two swamp things dancing circles around one another leads me to believe it's the former, while plenty of the more unnervingly unfunny sequences suggest the latter.

if you want to watch something completely insane, this is it

Ugh. Unfunny and painfully awkward because everyone phones this one in.

Meh

I gave this film bonus points for being one of the first films I remember watching with my dad (what the hell dad?) and also because this movie is batshit crazy.

Belushi was great, Aykroyd was not. Movie was worse.

A very bizarre but entertaining dark comedy.

Worth seeing just by virtue of its sheer massive weirdness