Bottoms (2023) review

Outcasts (and long-time friends) PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) have crushes on two cheerleaders - PJ likes Brittany (Kaia Gerber) and Josie's into Isabel (Havana Rose Liu) - and come up with a plan, with their teacher Mr. G. (Marshawn Lynch) acting as an "advisor," to start a Self-Defense Club and convince the ladies to join ... oh, and there's a dangerous rivalry going on with a neighboring school that typically ends in violence.  This "flips" the traditional teen sex comedy setup around by changing the gender of the nerds trying to hook-up with the popular girls, which is fine, but speaking as an educator this strains all credibility (I can't imagine even the worst schools allowing any of this) and the comedic timing is way off, so it's more embarrassing to watch than genuinely funny.  The view of heterosexuality as being "problematic" is very much part of a "current trend" - Mr. G. is bitter about his divorce, football star Jeff (Nicholas Galitzine) is cheating on Isabel with a classmate's significantly older mother - and I wonder what the response would be if that was reversed (LGBTQ+ individuals on social media would be infuriated).  Curiously enough, this does have something in common with Super Bowl XLIX back in 2015: it needed more Beast Mode.