Bottoms

Oh how I NEED to be a part of the Rachel Sennott/Ayo Edibiri/Emma Seligman group of friends. Also s/o @leoras who is the reason I was able to watch this through her US Amazon, cause for some inexplicable reason this isn’t getting a UK release. Proof the UK is homophobic.

Really not surprising, I fucking loved this. This is how you queerify a genre (definitely not looking at you Red, White and Royal Blue). Look, I don’t think it’s a masterpiece or anything but it’s just a really good comedy. I think the writing is stellar, the one-liners are phenomenal, not sure how much of it was improv, but just the screenplay as a whole really works.

I enjoyed how this took a very played out formula, high school students get into relationships based on a lie, the lie is revealed and everything goes bad until it’s all resolved. However, it trades in the stereotypical bland parts of this story for lesbians and a fight club. It’s not not to love.

Sennott and Edibiri are stars, as if it wasn’t already clear. Sennott is such a powerhouse in comedic acting it’s hard not to just laugh at every scene she’s in. It was also fun that there was more depth to the film, mainly given to Edibiri who does such a phenomenal job.

I do think this is a slight step down in filmmaking for Seligman, but her debut film is so controlled and perfectly crafted it’s not fair comparing this film which is doing something different. I do wish it also had more of an emotional core to it, when I think of other films in the genre, like Booksmart, I just think this film is missing the substance of other films. However, I also don’t think that’s what the film was going for, it’s more of a straight, well not so straight, comedy and it does it well.

Would love so much more queer films like this which are just unabashedly queer and don’t have to deal with coming out, or the repression queer people face. It’s fun how it just immediately establishes that being queer is not something which people have issues with in high school, who knows how real that is, I don’t think it is in the UK and I have no idea if it’s like this in the US, but it’s just refreshing to live in a world like this through the film and facilitate queer stories as more need to be in film