3/10
It goes to rather ludicrous, unrealistic lengths to pit a whole fraternity against a young family (Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and their 1ish year old) and once you accept this silly premise, it forgets to pepper the script with jokes. The movie mostly glides by inoffensively enough on the charm of its actors, who are all very good (can someone explain to me why I still like Dave Franco despite the fact that he always plays the same character?). But it revisits a central concern that was dealt with many years ago in Knocked Up - that whole Judd Apatow brand of, "partying and getting high all the time was awesome and now I feel constricted by this new familial role I'm expected to play!" shtick. And seeing the same actor, Rogen, doing it again made it feel especially tired.
I did enjoy Rose Byrne a lot and her character too, and I liked how they made a point of not making her out to be the nagging shrew chastising her oafish husband's harebrained schemes (with a pointed reference to every Kevin James movie ever). Her character very much gets her hands dirty and it feels like a breath of fresh air in an otherwise boring and generally uninteresting movie.
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