Yahoo Movies First trailer for The Bear star Ayo Edebiri's new movie
The first trailer has been released for Bottoms, an R-rated high school comedy about two girls who hatch an ingenious plan to lose their virginities to the jocks. But not the football boys, but the lead cheerleader girls.
Our two leads are played by Bodies Bodies Bodies' Rachel Sennott and The Bear's Ayo Edebiri, who star together in the Comedy Central series Ayo and Rachel Are Single and Taking the Stage, with the former also co-writing the film with director Emma Seligman.
Their characters PJ and Rosie are almost as annoyed by the jocks as they are by their lack of getting romantic attention, and their solution for both is to start a fight club for the girls of the school. It gets pretty violent.
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Bottoms won't be out in cinemas until August, but a number of critics have already seen and reviewed the film, which has landed it with a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score at the time of writing. Common points noted in reviews is how the film is unashamedly queer and almost certain to be a cult classic with an oft-quoted cutting script.
Here's what some of the reviews have said:
"It's [the two leads] together, along with Seligman's understanding of what makes this duo more than just two funny people saying outrageous things, that makes the film work. That, and its pure shamelessness around sex, feminism, teen nihilism, dim-witted masculinity run amok, and the fucked-up hormonal free-fall that is adolescence... What Seligman, Sennott and Edebiri have given us is nothing less than a Heathers for this generation. It hits you, and it feels like a kiss."
"A lot of the jokes rely on tone from the actor, which helps their universality, but overall, you don't have to be part of any particular generation to find the comedy of the film to be effective. The laughter is quite simply infectious. The film also has a dark tinge, and features its fair share of bloody violence, which is an excellent mechanic through which to push the ending into raunchier territory, while also serving as a source of empowerment, not just brutality, for audience and character alike."
"Ready for American Pie to look tame? With Bottoms, Seligman and Sennott, who co-wrote the screenplay, reveal a story that is way wilder, way wackier, and way, way more gay than the typical teen sex comedy churned out by Hollywood. Critics are citing a slew of movies as apparent influences, ranging from the hard-R Superbad to the recent SXSW hit Booksmart, as well as the dark comedy Heathers and the sapphic spoof But I'm a Cheerleader. But Bottoms blows past the clichés of these comedies with a sense of humour that is unapologetically horny and gleefully transgressive."
Meanwhile, a new queer drama for Netflix named Glamorous has just dropped its trailer, featuring Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall.
Bottoms premieres in select cinemas in the US on August 25, while a UK release date is yet to be announced.
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