It took me like five or ten minutes to dial into the tone of BOTTOMS because it’s a lot more heightened than I expected for a high-school comedy. But once I tapped into the specifically absurdist satirical tone, lying somewhere between MEAN GIRLS and THE NAKED GUN, I found one of the best comedies of the year. The story is a little formulaic but there’s more than enough wild subversion and basically every joke in the script (and improvised!) lands. Ayo Edebiri should be cast in everything (apart from the MCU).
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