Bottoms

I just love how Bottoms commits hard, and doesn't pull any punches literally or figuratively. Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri are fantastic leads, and Marshawn Lynch is surprisingly good in a supporting role. The score is also very much on point in spots. Unfortunately some parts are a little cliched (beyond the parody elements), but ultimately it's just refreshing to see a movie successfully blend classic comedy elements with more modern attitudes, and sensibilities.

If the music budget for your gay-ass broken-noses-and-hearts high school comedy can only afford one bona fide classic to score the big turning moment in the movie, make it "Total Eclipse of the Heart". And then make the sort of movie that's just the right side of over the top to deserve "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

This is pretty clearly in the vicinity of a standard high school sex comedy plot ... the kind that flourished in the 1980's ... with gender and sexual orientation swapped leads. I don't intend that as any sort of criticism, in fact, I really liked how this film took pretty standard genre tropes and completely made them it's own. I thought this was a ferociously funny film that deeply committed to it's premise and really went into some appropriately extreme territory.

A comedy only needs to make me laugh. Everything else is just in conjunction with the funny. You need good comedic performances to make the jokes land, but I don't need a Denzel Washington performance. This made me laugh more consistently, and sometimes harder, than almost any other movie this year. It works because it's so ridiculous. Excellent musical choices. Crafts actual jokes around its raunchiness, rather than using it as a crutch.

Started off a bit rough, but quickly got in to the swing of things and I was all for it. I loved the camp especially. Reminded me very much of Clueless. This is the kind of savage, boundary-pushing comedy that you just don’t see anymore. Most of the jokes landed and the entire cast stayed committed, and I thought that was brilliant. It has some really touching moments as well as some pretty likable characters. Bring back ninety-minute teen comedies with bloopers please! A hilarious, great time.