Ben Stiller & Naomi Watts play a middle-aged technology savvy couple who strike up a friendship with a younger hipster couple (Adam Driver & Amanda Seyfried) who use typewriters, love VHS and have no idea how to navigate Facebook. Baumbach loves his observant witty dialogue and he's really at some of his best here, with it's dry humour, scathing remarks at the different ages and all around charming realism. While it nestles itself comfortably in mild comedy, occasionally the events get a tad silly and out of place but never enough to really break character. When it all comes down to it, this is Noah Baumbach's Neighbors and basically his cinematic way of telling off all you damned kids.
3½ Beastie Boys out of 5
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