Bottoms (Film, Teen Movie): Reviews, Ratings, Cast and Crew (2024)

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DeathOfSeasons Mar 02 2024

Took me a while to recognise that this is operating on the same escalated irreverence as Not Another Teen Movie except it's lacking all the parodic specificity, pieced together entirely through coverage and set to needle drops entire decades apart so as to not particularly encompass any particular generation despite pertaining to what's purportedly a violently horny one. The physical comedy is quite good - Havana Rose Liu is the first person I've ever seen run without bending a limb - and it's admirable that so many of the stray lines go there, it's just that it's very hard to discern where there actually is given that the terminally online velocity of the humour is just being shouted at a void of moments that don't tonally or rhythmically gel together at all. The essence of this wants to fight and f*ck its way towards a frivolous who-gives-a-sh*t energy à la Foon, yet the inevitable need to adhere to conventional high school drama feels like all the false punches Edebiri kept throwing when she was afraid of committing to the real thing; needs far more moments of Edebiri breaking Sennott's nose, and far less of them arguing about their friendship.

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mattyice27 Feb 19 2024

Have to state up front and out right, this is a pretty hilarious movie. Not every joke lands perfectly, but the ratio of those that do is pretty high and there’s enough laugh out loud moments to balance out some duds. My main issue is that tonally this movie is a little imbalanced. Maybe had I known coming in how hyper surreal and detached from reality much of this movie was my palate could have adjusted better, but still doesn’t change that this is simultaneously a tender, sweet, coming-of-age queer story, but it takes place in the most fantastical, cartoonish, unreal world imaginable. Same goes for the violence which fluctuates from being hyperreal and visceral, to comedic and again cartoonish.

That tonal imbalance holds this back from being really great, but it doesn’t stop this movie from being funny. Ayo Edebiri is a star and is fantastic as a foil to Rachel Sennet’s outlandish assholery. The supporting cast all get their moments, but extra special mention to Marshawn Lynch for genuinely stealing a number of his scenes with genuine heart and humor.

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Iko Dec 17 2023

this is an incredible movie for fa*gg0ts and transfems. completely unsubtle campy comedy which i have been waiting for. most movies cant do unsubtle comedy cuz most writers are unfunny but this completely delivered. marshawn lynch was amazing and the car bomb scene to total eclipse was f*cking perfect. so great but for a niche audience i think.

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AvidMusicFan Nov 07 2023

Campy, catty, and frequently funny, this decidedly queer comedy takes a fearsomely inventive premise (what would you get if you put Fight Club, Mean Girls and But I'm a Cheerleader in a blender?) and runs with it.

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eeluks Sep 26 2023

Stylistically an absurdist interpretation of high school tropes--good for shaking up the feel of these general settings as well as giving the audience more bursts of color and visual gags to look at, but it's very front-loaded with this imagination and it peters off a bit as the bare bones story structure must unfold. Though I feel like the least satisfying element of all is its style of humor. It's heavily reliant on improvisational comedy with that aforementioned absurdist, zoomer twist of conversational ramblings and the occasional dark jab. It works, but I feel like there was a missed opportunity to marry that aesthetic to its setting more, like in the beginning, but without all the annoying meta-humor where the characters can't stop commenting on all the weirdness going on around them. Like if there was more realized situational comedy to compliment the way the characters interact, it wouldn't have gotten old as quickly. There's a drawback to this kind of humor in that often the setup for a joke is the joke itself, with a lack of payoffs throughout the experience. I also feel like our two leads, while I love their work elsewhere in Bodies Bodies Bodies, The Idol, or The Bear, they're just a bit outmatched by the rest of the supporting cast. Like they're playing the audience self-inserts and the supporting characters are the actual characters, who have great comedic timing and are able to sell the requisite emotions of the story as they come around. Literally everyone not named Jeff does great work, the character of Jeff is a one-note joke that is played out the second they cut away from his introduction. I like Bottoms for what it represents in comedic ethos but the execution is a little more slapdash than I'd hope for.

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blair23 Sep 25 2023

Funny and irreverent, this high school comedy is brimming with charm and wit and idiosyncratic young talent. It feels like Jawbreaker for a new generation.

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VelveetaUnderground Aug 31 2023

"My father left me and I'm very punctual."

Bottoms is tops!

Probably not as smart as it thinks it is (then again neither am I if I had to qualify that with 'probably'), not quite as funny as you want it to be, and some of the humor is so on-the-nose it feels like you got rhinoplasty but honestly it's so refreshing to see a campy movie that's *actually* campy. There are so many better gags but I can't stop thinking about that one guy using a cell phone while holding an extremely dog-earred copy of the yellow pages. Do they even make those anymore??

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