'Bottoms' is an absurdist high school sex comedy that rages and soars

'Bottoms' is an absurdist high school sex comedy that rages and soars Enlarge this image toggle caption Patti Perret/Orion Releasing LLC Patti Perret/Orion Releasing LLC For some time now, there's been fervid debate around the coital experiences of fictional characters in Hollywood. The "gimme more" crowd seem to be millennials and older, raised on an MTV-erotic thriller-high school sex comedy diet of the '80s and '90s. Sponsor Message Enter Bottoms, a smart and extremely weird high school sex comedy that manages to be one of the horniest movies in recent memory while also bluntly remarking upon feminist theory – bell hooks gets a namecheck – through a specifically queer lens. Bottoms leans hard into the absurdities of our hyperviolent and misogynistic culture and pokes fun at them; in one provocative scene, the girls go around sharing their personal experiences with harassment, abuse, and sexual assault, and while it's deeply depressing, it also makes for one of the movie's wittiest comedic moments.