videorama-759-859391 What a movie to go out on, as well as a performance. Belushi, is A1 fantastic, in what is such an original comedy, just viewing it again, it hasn't lost it's freshness or originality. This one stands the test of time. Belushi's world is turned upside down, with the arrival of these fruit loop neighbors, Ackroyd, and such a silky sexual performance from Moriarty who shares acting honors, with the brilliant Belushi. Unfortunately, their the only other neighbors, off this circular drive. Have they escaped from the nuthouse? Who knows? Belushi is married to a Marsha Mason looking woman, and evidently the marriage isn't working. You'll love the end. Moriarty keeps coming onto Belushi, cutely, and I loved these moments. Another crack up, is the old towing car guy. A classic. The script too, we give thanks again to Larry Gelbart. It's good to see the re teaming of these two comedy greats, but honestly Belushi and his brilliant performance, that makes it. He all so reminds me in looks of someone I know, but Belushi is much better looking. One very neighborly comedy, but you really need to move away from those power lines.

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 ****

jeremy3 This movie is a bit sleepy, but there are many good things to keep the last role of John Belushi entertaining. First of all, Kathryn Walker was great as the wife who was completely bored with her life. Her role was very convincing. She seemed to know her husband and be tired of his contained personality. Belushi usually played crazy people, but in this role and Continental Divide Belushi plays relatively down-to-Earth roles. Belushi was a totally conservative, conformist, who couldn't even complain about the high power electrical wires right outside his home. In come his new, strange neighbors who quickly turn his life upside down. Like many films with this theme, the one whose life is turned upside down by his crazy neighbors soon finds out that the real problem is not his neighbor, but his boring life. I remember when this movie came out, but I hadn't seen it until today. The critics really slammed this movie at the time. One thing I think the movie critics missed was how brilliantly this movie satirized suburban doldrums. At the very end of the movie, Belushi's character is watching an advertisement on television about a funeral home. Belushi was only in his early thirties at the time, but was overweight. His character, I believe, was supposed to be about ten years older. The advertisement on television is one of the best scenes (and the person speaking is obviously Dan Akroyd in the commercial). His life is over, and all that is left in his boring existence is preparing for his mortality.

jlobarcelona-335-549779 One of the last humor noir masterpiece, third to fourth degree excellence, Belushi-Aykroyd duet (last movie appearance), is stealing the show all these cartoons like characters are excellent. the final version of Neighbors was released to cinemas in December 1981, three month before Belushi's death, at the time critics was so upset that they didn't get the point of what was soon to be an UFO. Most of them were expecting a kind of blues brothers alchemy remake, though Advilsen took a counterpart using Belushi in a "counter employ" role showing how great his talent was. At the time some of the ads called Neighbors "a comic nightmare;" or "a sour case of creative indigestion." A visionary Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that "Neighbors is a truly interesting comedy, an offbeat experiment in hallucinatory black humor. It grows on you...Belushi and Aykroyd are brilliant casting, especially since they divided the roles somewhat against our expectations.".Unfortunately during filming this movie Belushi relapsed into drug addiction leaving us UN chef d'oeuvre d'humor!!!!! a big 10/10