PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are best friends who are queer, untalented and incredibly unpopular. They are the bottoms of the High School social ladder. In order to get the attention of the girls they have crushes on they start a fight club. 

Bottoms is batshit crazy. There is no simpler way of saying it. I went in expecting a coming of age comedy movie along the lines of Booksmart. But in reality it is much more in the realms of Anchorman. It is an incredibly exaggerated and heightened version of every American High School movie you have ever seen. The American Football team are idolised to the extent that everything revolves around them. The quarterback played by Nicholas Galitzine is the biggest prima donna on the planet and gets whatever he wants. The girls teacher (American Football player Marshawn Lynch) does not care about his job in any way shape or form. Whilst the fight club antics are hilariously brutal. And literally nothing seems to have any consequences or is even followed up on as it just swiftly moves on to the next crazy thing. 

For all its pushing of boundaries in terms of setting and tone it does follow a formula to an extent. Two best friends who go through thick and thin together will eventually fall out before becoming stronger friends than ever. 

Is it good though? If you can tune into its peculiar humour I suspect you will have a great time. Personally I struggled. One moment laughing and then spending the next few scenes either nonplussed or just plain confused at its weirdness. 

Writer/director Emma Seligman’s first film with Rachel Sennott was also a challenging and uncomfortable comedy but I will say I far enjoyed Shiva Baby to this effort.