Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school fight club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
Released: 2023-03-11
Runtime: 92 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Rachel Sennott, Havana Rose Liu, Nicholas Galitzine, Ruby Cruz, Kaia Gerber, Miles Fowler, Punkie Johnson, Dagmara Domińczyk, Marshawn Lynch, Ayo Edebiri, Alyssa Matthews, Zamani Wilder, Virginia Tucker, Wayne Pére, Toby Nichols, Liz Elkins Newcomer, Ted Ferguson, Cameron Stout, Bruno Rose
Director: Emma Seligman
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evanston_dad - 28 June 2024 Winning Comedy "Bottoms" is a sweet and winning raunchy comedy about two nerdy high school girls trying to get laid.
I first became aware of Rachel Sennott in the film "Bodies, Bodies, Bodies," where her small comedic gem of a performance stole the show. She co-leads here, and proves that her performance in that first film wasn't a fluke. But she's joined here by Ayo Edebiri, probably most known to people from her role on "The Bear," and Edebiri's more low-key performance is a large part of why this movie works so well.
There's been a big push lately for diversity in entertainment, both in the stories being told and the people telling them, and I'm all in. The problem is that the people making movies often don't know how to champion diversity and make entertaining movies at the same time. It's like they come up with a diversity agenda first, and then try to build something around it. More folks should take note of films like "Bottoms." The main characters in this happen to be two lesbians, one white and one black, but their struggles and strifes are relatable to anyone who's slogged their way through adolescence, which means everyone. It's first and foremost fun and entertaining, and if the people we see on screen happen to look different than the people we're used to seeing on screen, all the better.
Grade: A-
FKDZ - 11 April 2024 Bottoms Bottoms, is a fun and rare these days no-frills comedy that pokes fun at stereotypes and the typical female empowerment. It's silly and doesn't act like it's more than just a comedy.
Directing nothing too special but it looks the part and is paced fairly well. In general it didn't feel like it dragged at any point and the diverse set of fun personalities helped in that. We have the typical highschool bunch in this and a few odd ones here and there to spice things up. Acting deserves to mentioned too, I only really know Edebiri from The Bear and she has quite the transformation here and shows off some good range in general, just a great chemistry as well with the two and you can tell for certain.
The story is fine, not very memorable but passably silly for a comedy like this. The show is surprisingly gruesome at times, which was a fun turn of events.
In terms of it being funny, it's to your own taste of course, but it definitely had some great lines, and a whole bunch of decent ones/moments. It'll get a chuckle out of you no doubt. Besides that, just a nice and entertaining comedy that we get less and less of these days.