Bottoms – Movie Review
ABC Film Challenge – High School/College Movies – B
Director: Emma Seligman
Writer: Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott (Screenplay)
Cast
- Rachel Sennott (Bodies Bodies Bodies)
- Ayo Edebiri (The Sweet East)
- Ruby Cruz (Willow)
- Havana Rose Liu (No Exit)
- Kaia Gerber (Babylon)
- Nicholas Galitzine (Purple Hearts)
Plot: Two unpopular queer high-school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation.
Runtime: 1 Hour 31 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Bottoms starts when outsider gay students PJ (Sennott) and Josie (Edebiri) want to finish their last year of high school by having sex. However, they became public enemy number one after injuring the star football player. This leads to them wanting to create a fight club to defend women from aggressive boys.
However, it offers something new for the female students, a safe space. Something none of the women have felt about before and they can open up about the problems they have been facing. However, their plans get complicated and they must save their reputations.
Verdict on Bottoms
Bottoms is a high school comedy following two outsider students who want to have sex. They start a fight club for women and bring a group of women together in ways the high school hasn’t before. However, things get out of control for them both.
This movie shows a darker, even older vision of high school where bullying is still taking over. It does lean into the extremes of what people will do for sex. However, it does portray the boys as manipulative and the girls as naïve and believing anything a guy says. It is also difficult to see the lead to girls as ‘ugly’ members of the school and things go way past what would be acceptable in high school. It is also difficult to understand how a school comes so close to together for a football game, and always has been.
Where to Watch
Final Thoughts – Bottoms is an outlandish high school comedy.
