Bottoms is a high school comedy about PJ(Rachel Sennott) and Josie(Ayo Edebiri) two lesbian high school rejects who start a women's fight club in an effort to hook up two of the cheerleaders.
The cast is an impressive list of tomorrow's who's-who Sennott and Edebiri are unarguably up-and-coming powerhouse talents, its great to see Ruby Cruz as Hazel in a role a bit more fun and weird than her decent but mainstream turn in the Willow show, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, they're all great but they aren't given much to do or much in the way of actual character. A lot of the performances amount to simply hitting marks and saying lines and as a result the overall impact is lessoned whether the intent be comedic or commentary.
Tonally the movie is wildly inconsistent, in some ways its absurdly, astronomically, over-the-top in the realm of Not Another Teen Movie style parody, in others it attempts to be a grounded emotional dramedy, its bizarre and although some sequences are great(the ending fight scene in particular) the wild modulation of what it is and its focus on plotting rather than story or character leaves it, in total, as pretty anemic. It's impactful for its representation and for the talent of the cast who will, without a doubt, make big Hollywood waves in the years to come but in and of itself its not particularly funny or raunchy and seems unsure of what it actually wants to say or be.
An intriguing premise and excellent cast are mostly overshadowed by a relentless conventional plot.
Currently in theaters, coming soon to VOD.
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