One man's quiet suburban life takes a turn for the worse when a young couple move into the house next door.

From the word go it is obvious these are not the quiet professional types who should be living in such a nice street.

As more unbelievable events happen, he starts to question his own sanity.......

John Belushi was a legend. He was hilarious, straight to the point, and unpredictable. So why on earth cast him as the straight guy next to Ackroyds 'crazy' titular character?

This is where the film fails, it's not believable one iota. Imagine Nicolas Cage playing straight next to Tom Hanks who is in cuckoo mode? It just doesn't stick.

So we go through the same old motions of Ackroyd antagonising Belushi, taking his money, taking his car, and generally being a complete moron.

of course, this falls on death ears for the rest of his family, believing that he is too highly strung. And then we have an unfunny subplot involving Moriarty trying to bed Belushi.

It's supposed to carry the message 'Love thy Neighbour' with a comic twist, but it's never funny, never as awkward for Belushi that it should be, and it leaves you feeling pretty redundant come the end.

It was a risk for the two leads to change their atypical roles, but it doesn't pay off sadly.

Irreverent, satirical late-night comedy hits a turn for the worse with "Neighbors", which isn't even up to "Saturday Night Live" standards at its weakest. Dan Aykroyd shows up on suburbanite John Belushi's doorstep dressed like a hipster and talking like a dangerous Dean Martin. Aykroyd gives me a headache, and this movie is positively filled with him. Belushi, trying for a semblance of subtlety, is much preferable...but why is Belushi playing the straight-man anyhow? The sex jokes are ludicrous, the black comedy forced, the dialogue full of groaners. The success of films such as "Animal House" are really to blame for this type of sniggering, smug humor, always perpetrated by middle-of-the-road talents dying to be "edgy". It's enough to drive one right out of the suburbs and into Detroit. I'd walk out on this movie even on an airplane... NO STARS from ****

My wife and I like to play a little game when we go on long drives. It's called "let's name horrible movies made by Saturday Night Live cast members". It seems to last for hours as we name stinker after stinker (such as Dr. Detroit or A Night at the Roxbury) and ultimately it boils down to two movies as the worst ones we can think of: Neighbors and Nothing But Trouble. It's funny, but if we play the same game but make it to name the BEST of their movies we have a much harder time unless we remember to include Bill Murray's movies (and he's done some wonderful ones).

So, why is Neighbors one of the two worst SNL movies? Well, first I must admit there MAY be worse ones but we have actually tried to avoid most SNL vet movies, so our base is not exhaustive. Second, it is one of the few movies that made me physically sick (the other being Jerry Lewis' CRACKING UP). It simply had NOT one funny line of dialog, no funny scenes and featured two men who I know CAN be funny--I do still recall seeing John Belushi in Animal House and Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places (not GREAT but a good flick).

So what is the plot? From what I can remember, Belushi plays his role VERY STRAIGHT as a dull suburbanite and Aykroyd as an obnoxious neighbor. THAT'S ALL THE PLOT!!!!! Nothing more. THAT'S IT!! Next time, at least try to write a script and make SOME efforts for humor! I WANT MY MONEY BACK!