We came so close to turning this off after the first 15 minutes. There’s a lot of jokes that don’t quite work and the character beats are too hamfisted to matter.
But then we got to their classroom and met their teacher Marshawn Lynch, and the kid who was inexplicably caged in the back, and the 90 second long class, and we decided to give this movie another shot.
Bottoms takes place in a bizarre heightened world and it works best when it leans into it. It has the confidence not to justify the craziness but instead just lets its characters live in it, and it’s a blast when that’s happening. Like many comedies it stumbles when it has to deal with its plot and characters towards the third act, but after a wobbly 15 minutes it recovers for an insane, stellar ending.
I want Bottoms 2 to exist and to see whatever insane college these two end up attending.
