This movie is perfect for a movie night where you do not want to think. It is apologetically juvenile and in that genre it pulls that off beautifully. I found it tolerable but my just graduated from college son loved it. In a lot of ways he straddles the two worlds that the movie portrays. On the one hand, there is the frat with it's complete faith in the eternal party, brotherhood, and women as sex objects. Zac Efron's character is the party boy who doesn't know his GPA but is pretty sure that it does not crack a 2.0. He has not given a thought to what he going to do when college ends and he has to move out on his own. Seth Rogan's character is one step further along the road to conventionality. He has a wife and a baby, but he has not lost his college boy priorities. So it is hard for him to send a clear message to the frat boys that they need to obey the neighborhood norms if they are going to live off campus.
So there is no heavy intellectual thinking in this, a fair number of laughs, albeit some of them are cheap shots, and in the end everyone grows up just a little bit. Enjoyable for what it is.
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