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“Bottoms” * (2023, Kino Lorber) Tired of being what their high school principal describes as “the unpopular gays,” friends Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edibiri decide that the best way to improve their social standing and, more importantly, bed their cheerleader crushes (Havana Rose Liu and Kaia Gerber) is to start a fight club disguised as a women’s self defense class. To say that things go awry for the pair oversimplifies this bitingly smart feature from director Emma Seligman (who also co-wrote with Sennott) which plays as an absurdist take on teen sex comedies, queer coming-of-age dramas, and high school horror stories; the final effect suggests “Heathers” without the self-impressed streak, the horniest lost episode of “Freaks and Geeks,” or a slightly more stable “Strangers with Candy.” With NFL great Marshawn Lynch, very funny as the fight club’s fed-up sponsor; Kino’s Blu-ray has two commentary tracks, one with Seligman and the other with the main cast, as well as deleted scenes, outtakes, and a making-of featurette.
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