BAD NEI GHBOURS 2

Best opening sentence of the month (if a bit NSFW).

Sharpen your dildos, stoke up a doobie and steel yourself for some serious abs envy. Two years after director Nicholas Stoller scored a ribald breakout hit with his Neighbour-ly original, the Bad Neighbours are back. And this time, Hit-Girl is turning the party weapons-grade.

The main crew return, primarily Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen as Kelly and Mac Radner, the squares who aren’t hip to the raging kegger next door. Zac Efron returns too, out to redeem himself after Dirty Grandpa and removing his top at every opportunity (as you would). Except this time, Efron’s Teddy has turned: the Radners request his help when a sorority moves in next door and all Chloë Grace Moretz breaks loose, making Spring Breakers look like The Little Mermaid.

Core Breaker Selena Gomez is also on hand, though it looks like she’ll play good to the real party animal here. After an earnest YA slump ( If I Stay, The 5th Wave), Moretz is swinging back to badass: “I think people are going to be surprised to see that side of me,” she says. “What goes down in Neighbours 2 is going to blow people’s minds.”

Promising talk coming from Hit-Girl, though Rogen’s models for cracking the comedy sequel curse (a moment for Zoolander 2, please) were pleasingly high-grade: Pixar and Marvel. “It really is about, what’s the next logical chapter? It seems to be what those movies do well,” he says. “They’re really looking forward.”

Not that Neighbours- watchers need worry: the trailer suggests new and re-pumped old gags will be mixed if it helps to get a rise. “If it worked with guys,” says Mac of the airbag trick and, by implication, the whole film: “why won’t it work for girls?” Let’s hope they found the perfect blend. KH

ETA || 6 MA y Bad Neighbours 2 opens in spring.