Despite coming out in the US at the end of August, and going onto become a modest box office success there, Bottoms has kept fans here on the other side of the Atlantic waiting, and waiting. Even as choice clips, early reactions and full blown spoilers carried on hitting the timeline, a release date for fans elsewhere was nowhere to be seen and there was speculation that it would quietly get bunged onto a streamer rather than getting a full theatrical release elsewhere.
That would have been a shame because, willfully silly, filled with ridiculous levels of gore and craftily hidden background jokes, and playing on many of the established tropes that fill dark-humoured high school classics such as Mean Girls and Heathers, this is a film you ideally want to see in a slightly raucous cinema. Now, after a month or so of faffing about, it’s finally here for its full theatrical release. Bottoms up!
