Anyone a fan of Neighbors (1981)?

I like neighbors just because it's so off the wall and Dan Ackroyd's bizarre performance cracks me up.  It's not exactly a "so bad it's good movie" but I like it more for it's weirdness than it actually being a good movie.

Anyway I rewatched it today and it's just amazing that a major studio made this movie.  The score is ridiculous and cartoony, the performances are hammy.  The characters have zero motivation and they flip flop so quickly from friends to enemies to friends again that it's hard to keep track of, there's no story or plot....stuff just happens.

Nothing in it makes sense.  I've always wondered how much of that was intentional and how much of it was just bad movie making.  Obviously Belushi was a trainwreck by the time the movie was made but it's not like he wrote the script or directed it.  I remember when I first watched it years ago I was baffled by why Earl went from being friendly with Vic to mortal enemies with Vic trying to kill Earl back to friends again, all with no rhyme or reason.

Neighbors is one of those movies where with just a few tweaks it could have been so much better.  I think if the tone of the movie had been less cartoony and the performances a little more subtle it could have been a great dark comedy.  I get that it's supposed to be kind of surreal and kafka-esque but it's just not done well.  One of my favorite movies, After Hours, explores the same themes and genre and that's a great movie.  It's mostly played straight which makes the bizarreness really funny because of Dunn's reactions.

Just a shame that this was Belushi's last movie.