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Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
i think half the jokes work and half are kinda overdone and flat. this feels a lot like barbie (libfem humor poking fun at like, gender and modern feminism and stuff) but works a lot better than barbie does. it's also gayer, which is a plus. i loved the tone in this, and it felt very original. i loved the romance plot. i liked how bloody it got, and surprisingly edgy at times (for a mainstream feminist movie - as they tend to lean on the safer side)
hated the hazel character and i think it tainted a lot of my experience with it, as she's so central to the plot. i could even claim her character a slightly homophobic stereotype but alas i will abstain. i didn't say if.
i felt very represented by this movie (i, like PJ, was a nasty sex-obsessed gay teen who verbally sexualized women and was as far from "girl's girl" as can possibly be). need less uwu holding hands lesbians in movies and more "dude" dykes hehe
Ridiculously insane, fun, and a pretty unique movie. This movie took the "I don't take myself serious" approach from scene one and that's when I knew that I was in for a wild ride. It will hold up pretty well on a rewatch too.
<b>Bottoms</b> is a queer coming of age comedy happening in rural America with female leads and a mostly female crew, and for this fact alone I'm glad that it exists. But statistics and bechdel test aside, I found it difficult to locate the thread that's supposed to sew various parts of the movie together. This lack of uniform reaches its peak when we get to the climax, on the bloody football field. <i>Emma Seligman</i>'s somewhat apprehensive approach in narrating a delightfully cringe tale of sapphic adolescence, results in an unsuccessful attempt at achieving a campy ending. an ending that could've worked so well if the writers made it their job to commit to the bit from the kick off (no pun intended). I can see the potential, the movie is influential but these characters have issues far bigger than existential.
× <b>Best Line</b>: Are you serious? I got "faggot number two" this time? You're the sidekick, not me.
Heathers meets But I’m A Cheerleader for Gen Z - in the best way you can possibly imagine. Sexually charged, queer, violent, and absolutely hysterical, this is a new camp comedy that I HIGHLY recommend.
Did not land for me. The tone was very confusing. It felt campy at times like a bad version of Superbad and it felt absurd at times like Anchorman.
Would not recommend.