2023 - BOTTOMS, uneven but ranchy and funny teen comedy

A couple of loser teenage lesbians hatch a plan to hit on some sexy cheerleaders they have the hots for. To accomplish this they start a "fight club," for girls in their school, and this kicks off a very funny and fairly dirty teen comedy which a bunch of women  playing high school students who don't particularly took like teenagers.  

There is some very twisted humor in this film, dumb football players, a nasty school principal and a clueless teacher who is their advisor for the fight club.  Lots of jokes about school lunch and homecoming also figure into this film.  The two lead actors Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri work very well together as a comedy team.  Rachel Sennott in particular definitely has a way with dialog, she has a very sharp tongue.

 

It's easy to make one of these dumb teen high school sex comedies.  Usually the filmmakers just put in a bunch of silly sex jokes and mix it up with some female nudity.  However this is a rather unusual film that manages to even exaggerate the usual tropes in this stupid genre in a funny and at times witty way and not exploit the women in the cast.

 

This film is almost the flip side to Barbie, a film about female empowerment on the crude side.  Did I mention the film has a lot of smutty (but funny) humor?  The film was written by Rachel Sennott and the director Emma Seligman, the running time is 91 minutes.