Bottoms

Bottoms

Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school fight 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.

  • Released: 2023-03-11
  • Runtime: 92 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Stars: Rachel Sennott, Havana Rose Liu, Nicholas Galitzine, Ruby Cruz, Kaia Gerber, Miles Fowler, Punkie Johnson, Dagmara Domińczyk, Marshawn Lynch, Ayo Edebiri, Alyssa Matthews, Zamani Wilder, Virginia Tucker, Wayne Pére, Toby Nichols, Liz Elkins Newcomer, Ted Ferguson, Cameron Stout, Bruno Rose
  • Director: Emma Seligman
 Comments
  • laurenspam-64341 - 27 June 2024
    bottoms.
    No notes.

    I had no idea what to expect, and this STILL wasn't what I expected. It's the best "bad" movie I've ever seen. As in, it's shot like a poorly budgeted or cast movie, when it's actually really great. It's silly and it's unexpected and it's dumb and it's unbelievable, but those are all of the things that make it great.

    You'll realize soon after starting it that this is a movie where the plot is that the lives of the main characters kinda blow up at some point... aka the sh** hits the fan. I always dread that moment, but in this movie it was done carefully and still managed to keep the humor, rather than being strictly awkward and cringey. I'm really impressed.

    Once again, I have to say, no notes.
  • Bh-90757 - 27 March 2024
    Couldn't Finish Movie
    My friend and I watched this, but gave up as it just kept getting worse and worse.

    We grew up with Queer movies not being mainstream, so we are used to naff quality but enjoying them nonetheless, but this was awful for many reasons. It took dated jokes and made the lesbians creepy in the same way male leads were in 00s teen movies.

    Objectification, jokes about eating disorders, tricking women to physically interact for sexual gratification, blase reference to being victimised by stalkers and rapists etc. (in a scenario where they are tricking them into thinking they are being taught self defence, but are actually sexually objectifying and harassing them).

    Really not here for this new trend of redoing tropes from these old films but with Queer leads. General rule of thumb for writers: if you were to role reverse the gender of the person in the scene would leave you uncomfortable about their behaviour, you're getting it wrong.

    Lots more to it, but overall a creep fest. Avoid.