Bottoms

Last night I saw Bottoms with a large and enthusiastic crowd at the Broadway and it is the funniest movie I've seen this year!  PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edibiri) are best friends since childhood who are tired of their status as the losers of their school (not because they are lesbians but because they are untalented and ugly lesbians).  At the beginning of their senior year PJ decides that they need to be proactive in their goal to have sex with their crushes Isabel (Havana Rose Liu) and Brittany (Kaia Gerber) despite the fact that they are popular cheerleaders and Isabel is dating the quarterback Jeff (Nicholas Galitzine).  When their friend Hazel (Ruby Cruz) inadvertently starts a rumor that PJ and Josie spent the summer in juvenile detention and had to fight the inmates every day, they see the effect it has on their classmates, especially the cheerleaders, who often fear for their safety and they decide to start a self defense club.  They enlist their inept history teacher Mr. G (Marshawn Lynch) to be the faculty advisor and soon the so-called fight club becomes a source of female empowerment to the members but it also gets the much sought after attention of Isabel and Brittany.  Complications ensue when their real motivation for starting the club is revealed but they must all come together to save the football team from their biggest rival.  I loved the representation in this movie and that it features lots of social commentary but I also loved that it is a hilarious satire of the high school sex comedy genre! I laughed out loud at the clever script from beginning to end (there are so many jokes and I already want to see it again because I'm sure I missed some) and I was definitely not alone!  The portrayal of the football team, who are never out of uniform, is especially over the top because the entire school is invested in the forty year rivalry with another school's football team to the exclusion of everything else. Galitzine is so funny (the scene of him dancing to "Total Eclipse of the Heart" had me in hysterics) and Lynch steals every scene he is in (a joke about being an ally is another laugh out loud moment) but Sennott and Edibiri are wonderful together with a very natural chemistry that is so much fun to watch.  I absolutely loved this and I highly recommend watching it with the biggest crowd you can find with the proviso that it is violent with lots of crude humor.

Note:  Be sure to stay through the credits because there are deleted scenes and bloopers that are just as funny as the movie!