RELEASE DATE RUNTIME IMDB ROTTENTOMATOES METACRITIC
Aug 25th, 2023 1hr 31m 7.6 93% 77

Premise:

Two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation.

Directors:

Emma Seligman

Writers:

Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott
CAST
Rachel Sennot … PJ
Ayo Edebiri … Josie
Ruby Cruz … Hazel Callahan
Havana Rose Liu … Isabel
Kaia Gerber … Brittany
Nicholas Galitzine … Jeff
Miles Fowler … Tim
Marshawn Lynch … Mr. G

Missed this one on release so I figured I’d post it since it’s gotten good reviews.

  • @TenthrowMEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    The spouse and I went to see Bottoms last weekend. It was one of the best comedies I’ve seen in a while. Sort of cross between Fight Club, Superbad, and Starship Troopers (the satirical bit). I’d recommend this movie to anyone that can handle the crass content. Well worth checking out.

    • @canthidiumOPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Just finished it. I was NOT expecting the level of satire in this. I cracked up at all the ridiculousness of it all. Letting Hazel fight that boxer. The freakin sword! It was like a fever dream. And I love how they just never explain it. Everybody is nuts in the whole town.

      Marshawn Lynch was a highlight. His speech after they got found out was gold. Also “The Holocaust, it happened”. Hazel was also great. She was a great 3rd to compliment the duo.

      It was crazy seeing Ayo Edebiri in this after seeing her in The Bear. She looked so young here comparatively. I really found it to be a great satire on toxic masculinity as well. Shame Barbie is getting all the love instead of this. I might say Bottoms did it better for me.

      • @TenthrowMEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Agree. I got a lot more than I was expecting. It deserves to be a bigger hit than it is, but I can’t say I’m surprised in the world we live in.

        • @canthidiumOPEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          Yeah it’s so irritating when all my favorite movies just go by with no fanfare

  • @CaptainMcMonkeyEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Mild spoilers, but I think you could get this from the trailer.

    I was really hoping for some thing like I Mean Girls, but gay. But I really disliked this movie. The main characters are just really bad people. They spent the first 3/4 of the movie lying and manipulating people. Done well, I guess this could be a pretty good set up for one of those “ learn the lesson at the end of the movie” plots, but it honestly just ended up being really uncomfortable for me to watch.

    It is less ”Mean Girls” but gay, and more some super trashy, badly written, high school sex comedy from the 80s. There were three or four funny scenes, so any time things are happening, the sheer ridiculousness made it watchable, but anytime it’s slow enough for characters to talk to each other, it nearly became unwatchable for me.