Bottoms (2023) Review

When PJ and Josie, two very unpopular queer high school students want to have sex before graduation they go to extreme measures of setting up a fight club.

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The best friends are always pining for popular cheerleaders Isabel and Brittany. An evening at a local fair would set many different things in action, mainly to do with Jeff the quarterback of the football team, who is hit by the car Josie and PJ are in, although I use the term hit very loosly as the car brushes his knee and he falls to the ground pretending he has a life threatening injury.

From that moment and restarting school, rumours are spread that the pair had spent the summer in juvie and that they have physically had a fight with Jeff. With the possibility of being excluded from school they come up with an idea that they were actually practicing for a self defense club, which they then decide to actually set up as part of female empowerment movement.

The club quickly grows and while the pair want to use it to actually meet girls and then have sex with them, it also gets very violent and quite frankly chaotic. Which I am guessing is what a lot of people found funny?

Bottoms does have the makings of becoming a cult teen film, like so many others that have come before it. I will admit though that I wasn’t really blown away by any of it and found the positivity around it to be very over the top and hyped for not really any real reasons.