Bottoms — 4/5
Something in this feels new. I can't put my finger on it exactly. It's absurd but doesn't really look or feel or play itself as purely absurdist, like say a Not Another Teen Movie. The first 15 minutes of the movie, I had trouble catching its rhythm because it plays like a relatively straightforward teen comedy, but it kept slipping in things that felt out of place. A character that was too caricatured, say. It feels normal until its suddenly very much not normal. And back and forth, and back and forth. And I really love it for that? Specifically—how much it forgoes logic for a good joke. "Does this make sense?" "Fuck it, it's funny." It builds emotional connection and then fucks it all to hell. It's the love child of She's All That and Blazing Saddles. I feel like the unwritten rules say you have to pick a path, and I love this movie for at any given moment choosing to be whatever the fuck it wanted to be.
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