Bodies Bodies Bodies

I kept hearing good things about Bodies Bodies Bodies so I decided to see it last night and I am so glad that I did because it is an incredibly entertaining dark comedy!  A wealthy recovering addict named Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) brings her new working-class girlfriend Bee (Maria Bakalova) to a house party thrown by her childhood friend David (Pete Davidson) at his family's mansion where they all plan to ride out a hurricane.  The party consists of their wealthy and vacuous twenty-something friends Emma (Chase Sui Wonders), Jordan (Myha'la Herrold), Alice (Rachel Sennott), and Alice's much older boyfriend Greg (Lee Pace).  Tensions are already running high with old resentments and recriminations when they decide to play "Bodies Bodies Bodies" which is a murder in the dark game.  When they find a body in the game they begin to argue over the identity of the murderer but then the lights go out because of the storm and they start turning on each other after discovering a real dead body.  This is an edge-of-your-seat whodunit that kept me guessing until the end with a twist that I definitely did not see coming (some people in my audience gasped during the reveal but most laughed out loud).  The dialogue is razor sharp with a satirical look at the inability of Gen Zers to relate to each other without social media.  One of my favorite moments is when Greg, who is older than everyone else at the party, attempts to explain the meaning of a popular expression that the rest of them do not understand.  I really enjoyed the characterization throughout because, even though they are all incredibly insufferable and unsympathetic people, they behave in a way that is consistent with how they are first introduced which makes watching what they do very interesting.  The ensemble cast is outstanding with Sennott as the standout (I laughed at just about everything her character says).  Finally, I loved all of the practical lighting effects (especially the glow sticks) because they really add to the tension.  Honestly, I enjoyed this a lot more than I was expecting because it is so much better than the trailer would suggest.