Is there nostalgia for 2002? Netflix comedy “Senior Year” certainly tries.
The movie doesn’t waste time setting up the premise: Rebel Wilson plays Stephanie Conway, who wakes up after a 20-year coma after an unfortunate cheerleading accident in 2002 to the Kelly Clarkson song “A Moment Like This.”
Stephanie, now 37, returns to high school to make up for what she missed and like a modern Rip Van Winkle, has to learn about smartphones, social media and avoiding use of the word “retarded.” She decides to revisit old goals: become cheer captain and prom queen. Problem: no one person is cheer “captain” anymore and nobody is “prom queen” because such competitions have been eliminated. And instead of sexy dance routines to Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” the squad does overly earnest “cheers” about “consent” and climate change.
