The Neighbors
The Neighbors
TV-PG | 26 September 2012 (USA)

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    Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
    Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
    Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
    Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
    tvsitcoms The Neighbors - what a weak title for an extraterrestrials TV show.The first time watching it I though: "It is terrible!". But it also has something to make it enjoyable.The premise of "kind of stupid" aliens passing has humans is what makes this show attractive. So one stays on watching it hopping it would bring something more.The characters are linear. The situations most of the times are transparent. The acting can be really bad, major character's voices anoyingly pinchy and squeeze, weak screenplay. Inspite of this major errors, maybe because it is not supposed to be taken seriously, the show brings 20 minutes of fun. They say in their corny opening credits "30 minutes" but their math is obviously wrong.Special regards to the actors who played Amber and Jackie Joyner- Kersee. They where excellent (read this with the voice of Mr. Burns from the Simpsons).The developing romance between the human and the alien came to be the best part. Not credible at all are the children's characters. They are all Kids acting like know-it-all adults. None is normal. That gets very tiring to watch and it is annoying. Bad casting? Probably. I came to realize it was painful to hear and watch "Dick Butkus", witch is another untactful name for a kid's character.I never though The Neighbors would have a second season but it did and is far better than the first one. To ABC to have cancelled this is... well, its ABC. Be very careful when stepping on ABC ground. One should never start watching an ABC TV series before the 4rd or 5th season.
    Chappy Watched I didn't have any expectations going into this series, and it was a good thing too!This feels more like a dark comedy with a few laughs throughout the season and the only highlight of the cast, for me, was Toks Olagundoye as the alien mother, Jackie Joyner-Kersee.The show starts to become very repetitive in every episode. The humans doing their thing and then the aliens coming along and trying to incorporate themselves into human life, something goes awry but it all gets sorted out in the end.The best part of the whole series is a two minute bit in the season finale! That part is the only part worth a watch!!Kind of surprised it even got a second season. I wouldn't watch it again!
    Ui'Neil Sandidge The Neighbors is a premise people need. The cast is very funny cast. All of them. The writers though very talented met their limits at how to create such an amazing and different take on concepts we are all somehow familiar with in a fresh view. (Mork & Mindy, Perfect Strangers, ALF, Third Rock, Thirty Rock, My Teacher is an Alien adventure books, an aisle of movies, plus Kyle XY.)1. The Fastfood & Coffee Shop jobs should only be a few episodes. ~ When I left an office job to make a sudden move to a major city, the work I wanted did not happen in the first month, so at the end of that month I started 3 Jobs at the same time. Local Aliens aren't lazy. They are hard working. McDonalds (Breakfast shift), Applebee's (Lunch and Dinner, Serving/Trucking/Prep/Dishes, but only for no-shows and with dinner), and at a Movie Theater (Every Thursday, from 10am-12pm). ~ I then became a traveling Apprentice Plumber, then an Electrician, and Went back to College after that. Two previous times in my life I have worked 80- 90Hours a week, once for a Month (2Bookstores, one on campus, the other BooksAMillion; and the third job at a Fish place) and another for 6 Months waiting for medical benefits to activate at the new job before quitting the first. Model Aliens after Foreign Nationals and our own American people who know how to work when they don't have money. Asia is filled with people who borrow money and because of Yakuza or Loan Sharks work hard to pay it back rather than go bankrupt because real physical harm might happen.2. Celestial ordained love should win. ~ Don't conform enjoy arranged marriage, it is a hell of a lot less taxing on both the emotions and the wallet, with a much lower divorce rate! They are aliens, so quit selling the American myth of struggling for love and being single as you roam the earth to find your other half. Study Census.gov sometime. The Bible states who ban getting married until after 18, and shun arranged marriages, are also the US States with the highest teen 15-19 pregnancy rates. Except for Utah. The Mormons are doing something right. http://www.livescience.com/5728-teen-birth-rates-higher-highly- religious-states.html3. If you can't follow others, and have personality strength, you should find a way to lead yourself.4. Being your own boss is the most surprising adventure life has to offer.Here is what I wrote to ABC. ~ http://abc.go.com/feedbackThe Neighbors should be saved and get some advertising. This Show can really grow. The lyrics to the theme song need to be changed. Some really funny ideas or insightful ideas get written into every show. But there needs to be writers with a social view where smart people don't get stuck doing fast food jobs for more than college. The Aliens residents should be more capable and insightful like international student aliens. Even if the show were riffing the yuppy think they know it all people in the service industry, those people still have some amazing conversations. And this show totally misses the political and social order angle of the lifestyle it mocks.The writers should revisit the entrepreneurial aspect and place the family on a track of success, relating to running your own business where they learn about how to be successful as business owners. People who work for themselves are a little nutty and desperate to succeed. So the writers will never run out of material.
    TwilightSparkle Please give this show a chance. The Neighbors is a wonderful sitcom. It is weirder than most TV shows, but once you are able to get past the weirdness of the aliens, it is actually a really good TV show. And it is very unique from other sitcoms on television. I think there have been about 4 other alien sitcoms in America (Alf, Mork & Mindy, My Favorite Martian, and 3rd Rock from the Sun), and The Neighbors is the first not to use a laughtrack, which is great! I personally prefer The Neighbors to all those alien TV shows, because I think it has more heart, more humor, and it's more modern. And just ignore the critics. Apparently in order for a TV show to be good these days, it needs to have canned laughter to make sure the audience knows when to laugh, like How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory. Let's see how better those 2 shows would be if they didn't have their laughtracks to tell the audience what is funny.