A movie about empowering women (the hot ones).
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.
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Comic, unpretentious, contemporary and spare.
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- sparerichly built
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Nov 20235/10
"PJ" (Rachel Sennott) and her best mate "Josie" (Ayo Edebiri) are starting the new year at school confident that they won't get laid! It's not just that they are gay, it's that they are gay, "ugly" and "untalented" - a toxic combination designed to ensure they continue to get their fun from Pornhub. Meantime, cheating school heart-throb "Jeff" (Nicholas Galitzine) is having a row with his girlfriend "Isabel" (Havana Rose Liu) that sees the latter take refuge with the girls in their car and the most minuscule of car accidents reduce this macho lad to a gibbering wreck! This is what inspires our duo to start a club at school that will ostensibly teach young women the basics of self defence whilst allowing them to maybe get some "fun" into the bargain! What now ensues is all rather puerile, I found. Maybe it's supposed to be satire, but that any school would allow the pupils to use the gym to beat each other up - under the supervision of a teacher - is just preposterous. The characterisations are just about as shallow as you can get and the writers need to appreciate that using the full gamut of Anglo-Saxon expletives doesn't actually make a film funny. As it lumbers on it becomes mor
Read the whole review on TMDB - Brent Marchanton TMDB · Sep 20231/10
I hate to admit it, but I allowed myself to be suckered 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
Read the whole review on TMDB - Parkeron TMDB · Mar 2025
Bottoms tries to be a queer, feminist twist on the high school comedy, but what it delivers is a chaotic, mean-spirited farce that confuses shock value for substance. Also, writer is a degenerate for putting sex scenes in a high-school movie. Watch literally anything else.
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Cast
- Rachel SennottPJ
- Ayo EdebiriJosie
- Ruby CruzHazel Callahan
- Havana Rose LiuIsabel
- Kaia GerberBrittany
- Nicholas GalitzineJeff
- Miles FowlerTim
- Marshawn LynchMr. G
- Dagmara DominczykMrs. Callahan
- Punkie JohnsonRhodes
Crew
- Emma SeligmanDirector
- Emma SeligmanWriter
- Rachel SennottWriter
- Maria RuscheDirector of Photography
- Charli xcxOriginal Music Composer
- Leo BirenbergOriginal Music Composer
- Hanna ParkEditor
- Max HandelmanProducer
- Alison SmallProducer
- Elizabeth BanksProducer
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