From the producer of Pitch Perfect and Cocaine Bear comes the official Red Band trailer for Bottoms, a new comedy that finds two high school senior girls setting up their own fight club in order to hook up with cheerleaders. Released courtesy of MGM, Bottoms is due to land in theaters later this year, and poses the age-old question, do you want to get punched in the face by hot girls? Well, get in line. Check out the Red Band trailer for Bottoms below.
“A refreshingly unique raunchy comedy, the film focuses on two girls, PJ and Josie, who start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. Their bizarre plan works,” the official synopsis for Bottoms reads. “The fight club gains traction and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in the name of self-defense. But PJ and Josie find themselves in over their heads and in need of a way out before their plan is exposed.”
From director Emma Seligman, who has penned the script for Bottoms alongside Rachel Sennott, Bottoms is all set to be led by Bodies Bodies Bodies star Rachel Sennott and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri. The rest of the cast includes, Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), Kaia Gerber (Babylon, American Horror Story), Nicholas Galitzine (Cinderella, Purple Hearts), with Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) and former professional American football player Marshawn Lynch.
Rated R for crude sexual content, pervasive language, and some violence (which sounds like exactly what you’d want from a summer comedy of this nature), Bottoms is produced by Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman, and Alison Small, with Ted Deiker serving as an executive producer, and features music from Charli XCX and Leo Birenberg.
Bottoms Has Been Met with Critical Acclaim
Bottoms has already been seen by a lucky few after headlining the 2023 SXSW film festival back in March. The raunchy teen comedy has since been met with critical acclaim, and currently sits at a hugely impressive 96% on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
“A high-school comedy that is brazenly gonzo, scaldingly and at times even dementedly over-the-top, and actually about something...” says Owen Gleiberman of Variety of the comedy, with David Crow from Den of Geek awarding Bottoms a near-perfect score of 4/5 and concluding, “It's all so silly that it ends up being kind of badass.”
Bottoms marks the second acclaimed project from director Emma Seligman and star Rachel Sennott, following 2020's Shiva Baby, with Rolling Stone’s David Fear even comparing the comedy to one of the most popular coming-of-age movies of all time, the 1989 black comedy Heathers; “What Seligman, Sennott and Edebiri have given us is nothing less than a Heathers for this generation. It hits you, and it feels like a kiss.”
Lastly, Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com applauds Bottoms for its subversion of the teen comedy, and praises this “unforgettable” tale of sex, feminism, and fighting; “Girls are rarely allowed to use their sex drive as openly as Seligman does here. And the way she plays with violence is gleefully amazing. Some sequences in "Bottoms" are unforgettable.”
Bottoms is scheduled to be released in select theaters on August 25, followed by additional cities on September 1.