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Bottoms is a deliriously funny teen comedy that goes a little too far.

Bottoms is a deliriously funny teen comedy that goes a little too far.

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Keryn Donnelly
Dec 01, 2023
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Bottoms is a deliriously funny teen comedy that goes a little too far.
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If Mean Girls and Heathers had a baby using sperm from Booksmart, the result would be Bottoms.

Bottoms is a teen satire that pays homage to the teen movies of the nineties and early noughties, but is match fit for the TikTok generation.

Best friends Josie (The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri) and PJ (Rachel Sennott) are the ‘ugly, untalented gays’ at the bottom of the social totem pole at Rockbridge Falls High School.

It’s the beginning of their senior year and they’re determined to get closer to their seemingly straight cheerleader crushes and lose their virginity before they go to college. So, when a miscommunication leads to their classmates believing they spent the summer in juvenile detention, learning how to fight and making shivs out of plastic toothbrushes, they decide to start a female fight club, along with their anarchist friend Hazel (Ruby Cruz).

Their crushes Isabel (Havana Rose Liu) and Brittany (Kaia Gerber — girl can act!) join the club and the best mates are soon living out their…

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