What it does best is nail the angst of people realising that the birth of their baby also means the death of cool.

Byrne walks away with the film by making Kelly a well-rounded, conflicted person, rather than the film's fun cop who has to tell everyone the boring truth.

It may seem counterintuitive to praise the emotional maturity of a movie whose climax includes a dildo fight, but there you have it.

Bad Neighbours borrows consciously from Jon Landis's Animal House for some of the contrivances that fuel the fraternity plot, but it is a pity the writers haven’t worked on creating a character as misanthropic and dirty as Bluto.