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In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- United Artists Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
- 2023
- R
- United Artists Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
Summary PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. Their bizarre plan works. The fight club gains traction and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in the name of self-defense. But PJ and Josie find themselves in over their heads and in need of a w...
Directed By: Emma Seligman
Written By: Rachel Sennott, Emma Seligman
In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- United Artists Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
- 2023
- R
- United Artists Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
Bottoms
77
6.4
Where to Watch
Summary PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. Their bizarre plan works. The fight club gains traction and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in the name of self-defense. But PJ and Josie find themselves in over their heads and in need of a w...
Directed By: Emma Seligman
Written By: Rachel Sennott, Emma Seligman
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
77
90% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
10% Mixed
4 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
77
90% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
10% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Bottoms is a brilliantly bizarre movie that pushes boundaries and packs a punch—literally.
Bottoms is unlike any high-school comedy you’ve ever seen. It’s a satire of victimization, a satire of violence, and a satire of itself. It walks a tightrope between sensitivity and insanity (with a knowing bit of inanity), and it’s full of moments that are defiantly what we once used to call incorrect.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 47 User Ratings
6.4
55% Positive
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
21% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
23% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 47 User Ratings
6.4
55% Positive
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
21% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
23% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
High School comedy about a group of unpopular girls. At times it's incredibly silly (Football players wear full uniform and pads to classes every day), ridiculous, funny, serious, etc. It's just a really fun movie with a lot of great characters.
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Bottoms strikes a balance: It’s a playful satire, and it’s also exactly the sort of film it’s making fun of.
Bottoms achieves what it sets out to do and, in the process, provides a multiplex-friendly indie movie with breakout potential.
The film’s unique blend of deadpan and absurdist humor, and its tendency to occasionally push the boundaries of good taste, shows that Emma Seligman is comfortable working on both ends of the comic spectrum.
Perhaps it’s not quite the teen movie to define a new generation, but it’s one that gets at something unique about female rage and drive, gifting its young viewers a reset button and a release outlet, however imperfect.
Bottoms, though it presents itself as a sort of sideways heir to comedies like Heathers and But I’m a Cheerleader, simply runs its jokes into the ground.
Bottoms
This teen comedy sees two high schoolers begin a fight club to be in close proximity with the cheerleaders they're interested in, and ultimately date them.
Bottoms is different from most teen comedies, this flick is raunchy, bloody, violent and dripping in satire. But for how over-the-top Bottoms becomes, it isn't funny, or not as funny as it should be, which is especially sad because the trailer promised a swell time. The zany jokes that a movie like this should have are missing; the comical moments here can't provide more than a smile.
The cast brought the best they could to this project, and most of the characters are distinct.
Themes of sexuality, friendship, women empowerment and identity are employed here.
Bottoms is a fresh idea, and would have worked with a funnier script.
6/10
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Huh, I don't get the hype for this movie. There were plenty of moments that had me laughing hard, but I just couldn't "get" what this movie was trying to say. The bits that were good for me were REALLY good, basically every scene with the football players in full pads at all times were hilarious. Some of the representation was spot on too, it's rare to see decently written platonic lesbians.
HOWEVER there is tons of punching down, and the main character complaining about ugly women wasn't really funny considering the movie was devoid of ugly women as far as I remember. Some of the dialogue was also a bit cringe inducing, mostly Rachel Sennot forcing her lines (not her fault imo, she had terrible lines), or Ayo Edebiri doing a carbon copy of her stressed speed ranting from The Bear. Lastly I know we're doing a "raunchy" comedy but it was kind of odd how it only sexually objectified the women, and it did it a LOT. Overall I just get mixed messages from this movie. Like it's definitely taking swipes at many aspects of society, but it also props up or seemingly gives a pass to some really toxic aspects of society in the process. Maybe I was just expecting too much from the movie due to the glowing praise online.
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I hate to admit it, but I allowed myself to be **** in to this one as a result of its rambunctiously funny trailer only to be grossly disappointed at what I saw. This is a positively dreadful film, and I’m at a complete loss to understand how viewers have found it funny. When a pair of lesbian high school students (Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri) establish a fight club (i.e., a euphemistically labeled “self-defense program”) as a means to surreptitiously bed down their cheerleader classmates (a story line that’s more than a little dubious in itself), they subsequently launch into a meandering narrative that makes little sense and plays like it was made up by a group of stoners who’ll laugh at anything when suitably smoked up. The film starts out trying way too hard and then proceeds to quickly go downhill from there. Much of the material is in questionable taste, too, such as sequences that feature unrestrained physical abuse against women, as well as other forms of sanctioned violence. How is this stuff supposed to be funny? “Bottoms” has been described by viewers and critics as a go-for-broke/anything-for-a-laugh comedy, but I found its distasteful stabs at humor cringeworthy at best. What’s more, the picture’s feeble attempts at trying to inject the narrative with a message related to women’s empowerment are completely betrayed by its many wrong-headed plot devices. To the film’s credit, it does feature some passable performances by its supporting cast (most notably Punkie Johnson, Dagmara Dominczyk and former NFL star Marshawn Lynch). But, sadly, this effort is a big step down for director Emma Seligman and writer-actor Rachel Sennott, both of whom turned in brilliant work in their raucous collaboration, “Shiva, Baby” (2020) (not to mention that Sennott’s casting represents a laughable choice for someone who’s nearly 28 attempting to portray an 18-year-old character). It’s also quite a comedown for producer Elizabeth Banks, who scored big earlier this year with the utterly hilarious “Cocaine Bear.” It occurred to me after watching this debacle that maybe I’m just getting old and losing my sense of humor, but, after thinking it over, I realized that’s genuinely not the case. This may indeed represent a case of changing movie tastes, but, if that’s so, I’m seriously troubled about the direction in which those tastes are headed.
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Production Company
Brownstone Productions (II),
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM),
Orion Pictures
Release Date Aug 25, 2023
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A movie about empowering women (the hot ones)
Awards
Sidewalk Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
