I’m not sure real-world teens are into making pacts, but High School Movie Teens are always making pacts about losing their virginity and having one last crazy night and stuff like that — a trope that is twisted and bent in utterly ridiculous and smart and cleverly satirical fashion in director/co-writer Emma Seligman’s subversively fantastic “Bottoms.” I’ve got your back-to-school viewing assignment right here in this queer, dark-comedy send-up of films such as “Superbad” and “American Pie.”
In keeping with teen comedy tradition, we start off with the obligatory BFF duo, wonderfully played by the “Ayo and Rachel Are Single” duo of Ayo Edebiri (who we also love on “The Bear”) and Rachel Sennott, who co-wrote this screenplay and starred in Seligman’s “Shiva Baby” and was also terrific in “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” so kudos to the casting. Sennott’s PJ and Edebiri’s Josie are classic teen movie outcasts — not because they’re gay, but because they’re socially awkward and “ugly, untalented gays,” as they put it.
