''Bottoms' harnesses the unique strengths of all three of its main players and puts them on a volatile, highly hormonal collision course of gonzo teen comedy, unlike anything that has ever been seen in the genre,' writes colemanjspilde
begins to tilt hard into its own strangeness. Josie’s graze of a quarterback’s knee with her car’s bumper is treated with the gravity of Pearl Harbor. Rumors begin to fly, and Josie makes up a lie about her shoulder sling being the result of a summer spent in juvie. Using their newfound standing as the subjects of the rumor mill to attract their cheerleader crushes, PJ and Josie start an extracurricular self-defense club for fellow girls in their class who want to learn how to shiv a rival.
Which is not to say that the film won’t see its fair share of detractors. I’m sure Twitter vultures are already cracking their knuckles and strapping on their wrist braces in anticipation of doing their damndest to call out the film’s jokes about rape and terrorism. A good chunk of the film’s screenplay sounds horrific on paper, but is genuinely funny and considerate within the context of the film. In that respect,is prepared for its own slander.
Seligman and Sennott earn every single laugh that their screenplay gets, while Edebiri and Sennott work on selling it on celluloid. It helps, too, that editor Hanna Park’s skilled stylistic approach keeps the film firing at a consistent pace. Genre tropes—like slow-mo revenge walks to vampy electronic songs—are used to genius effect, somehow working as parodic sendups and genuine love letters at the same time.
The movie’s push and pull culminates in a brilliant scene where the self defense-turned-fight club has to come to arms during the school’s major football game against their rival team. Infamously, that team lusts for literal blood, and won’t rest until there are bodies on the 40 yard line. And yet,still finds a way to fit in the idyllic cinematic image of a genre-fied ending.
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