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- 2023
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 31 m
- 2023
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 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
- 2023
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 31 m
- 2023
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 31 m
Bottoms
74
6.7
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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 46 Critic Reviews
74
85% Positive
39 Reviews
39 Reviews
15% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 Critic Reviews
74
85% Positive
39 Reviews
39 Reviews
15% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Think Mean Girls mashed into Lindsay Anderson’s If ... But with more sublimated high-feminist discourse. Just perfect.
What Seligman, Sennott and Edebiri have given us is nothing less than a Heathers for this generation. It hits you, and it feels like a kiss.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 99 User Ratings
6.7
66% Positive
65 Ratings
65 Ratings
20% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
14% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 99 User Ratings
6.7
66% Positive
65 Ratings
65 Ratings
20% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
14% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
I won't lie: I hate sex comedies. But this did it PERFECTLY.
This movie is everything I want from a comedy and more. It's absurd, edgy and at times brutal, but it never feels cruel towards the characters.
Also, where most in the genre fall to mysogynistic tropes and stereotypes, this movie perfectly avoids them.
This movie aimed to be a blend of Superbad and Fight Club, but it managed to surpass both of them.
Watch this movie whenever you get the **** won't regret it.
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What's both truly brilliant and horrifying about this film is that it had to be made. Rumi said, "Paradox is the only basket large enough to hold the truth." If it's true that we only laugh at what's dangerous watch this film and try not to double over knowing that if you weren't laughing you'd be retching over the mind numbing, soul **** stupidity and zombiesque violence that is patriarchy. In the final blood bath scene Edebiri wears the t-shirt, "Artists are the gatekeepers." Sometimes artists give us the key to escape hell, sometimes they march us into it laughing.
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If Bottoms doesn’t land every single punch, we can be happy that at least someone is out here swinging.
Bottoms achieves what it sets out to do and, in the process, provides a multiplex-friendly indie movie with breakout potential.
Despite its outlandish conceits, it is grounded in sisterhood. As bloody as it is, the pain the girls dish out to each other is nothing compared to the trauma they’ve experienced.
Seligman and Sennott serve up a timely and bracing counter-punch and counter-narrative in the ongoing culture wars, a fun poke-in-the-eye at gay bashers and stereotypes that amuses almost as much as it transgresses.
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.
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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Impressionante que, após o ótimo "Shiva Baby", que é uma comédia muito mais contida e até mesmo reflexiva, Emma Seligman consiga permanecer na comédia e o fazer de forma mais escrachada, irônica e divertida nesta nova empreitada, traduzida de forma apelativa para "Clube de luta para meninas".
É uma forma de, claro, jogar com o público. Mas infelizmente esse apelo talvez afugente o humor ácido do texto, como as inúmeras referências aos filmes adolescentes de outrora, e a feminilização de personagens masculinos. O texto, portanto, é delicioso, mas a decisão comercial de vender o filme como uma comédia juvenil qualquer o diminui.
Reconhecendo os méritos da ironia do filme, a caracterização estereotipada dos jovens poderia avançar para um filme mais transgressor, com potencial incrível para isso, já que o filme realmente está engraçado. Mas qual minha surpresa ao ver que a Seligman se entregou para o desenvolvimento mais convencional.
Se por um lado algumas piadas costumam dar um passo a mais do politicamente correto, por outro lado as imagens e o roteiro nos fazem questão de lembrar que o filme, infelizmente, é uma típica comédia romântica adolescente, com direito a desenvolver o ato, fortalecendo as amizades, e depois fazê-las estremecer, até o final de reconciliação. Sem sair do lugar comum, o filme acaba entregando tudo aquilo que costumamos ver no gênero, e de forma mais higienizada possível. Até mesmo a "Barbie" foi mais contundente em suas piadas, e olha que estamos falando de uma boneca com grande apelo comercial do mainstream.
Infelizmente, "Bottoms" desperdiça sua potencialidade criativa. Talvez visto como um filme homenagem ao estilo "Meninas malvadas" com personagens ****, funcione. Mas fico feliz de ver a Seligman se aventurar com uma linguagem mais esperta, e uma edição mais cara de cinema de massa, e ainda acho que o futuro lhe reserva uma evolução nesse quesito. Ainda fico com "Shiva baby", claro, mas com um sentimento de que a diretora pode ir bem mais adiante.
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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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I did not like this movie. it felt like what animals or out of this world creatures perceived humans.i understand that was the point but it was overly typical. it genuinely felt like what a thing that isn’t a human viewed humans. the men are such men the lesbians are “stereotypical lesbians” the plot is what is seen everywhere. the same they lie they get liked, then the school finds out everyone hates them friends fall apart then at the end it’s all fine and okay. i don’t write reviews but the amount of times i wanted to the movie to end because how predictable and nothing new this movie had to offer. i couldn’t bro this actually had me upset
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Production Company
Orion Pictures,
Brownstone Productions (II)
Release Date Aug 25, 2023
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A movie about empowering women (the hot ones)
Awards
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
• 3 Nominations
Indiana Film Journalists Association, US
• 3 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 2 Nominations
