if felt like two entirely different movies at times the cast (namely the "adults" and the "kids") hardly shared screen time at all.. you get the idea efron was working doubletime... it just felt like the filmmakers treated it as if any team (kids-adults) could be fired and recasted at any time so they hardly really interacted
shareI felt the same way. The editing was horrible.
shareYes the editing was really disjointed. Especially the beginning. I really didn't understand where the movie was even going until probably a half hour in. I kind of thought maybe they had planned on a plot, then rewrote the script but decided to keep some of the old scenes in.
shareDid you look at the screenwriting credits?
5 writers!
This is typical with Hollywood. So many rewrites happen, and so many screenwriters are brought in that by the time the movie is filmed, it's just a bland jumbled mess!
Too many cooks spoil the soup!
I once heard a story about a local screenwriter who sold a script to Hollywood (as rare as a blue moon by the way), which was a well-written (by professional dramatic screenwriting standards, which got it sold in the first place) psychological thriller that got rewritten so many times it was eventually produced under the title Earnest Goes To Space!
This is a true story!
And people wonder why there's no originality in Hollywoood. Everyone wants to put their name on a film property and it turns into mush!
Gone are the days of Robert Towne solely writing Chinatown because a script like that would never get produced in today's Hollywood!
Instead we get what we got with Neighbors 2.
Oh well...