Not Just Another Teen Movie
’s homoerotic humor to Jason Momoa being thefranchise’s first sexually ambiguous villain to the alpha-bro in the latest A24 scarefest, directed by gay director Justin Simien, quietly hinting that Tiffany Haddish and Jamie Lee Curtis’s psychics could have a wonderful life together, it’s been a, shall we say,belongs in the more low-budget, indie section of the multiplex .
Sennott reunites with the ubiquitous Ayo Edebiri to play PJ and Rosie, two high-school seniors/nerdy lesbians who have crushes on the resident popular cheerleaders . When word gets out that their school’s rival football team is attacking students, PJ and Josie set up a self-defense club for the female students. Of course, they don’t know a damn thing about defending themselves.
Since this is a comedy written and directed by women, the shenanigans are more satirical — and more feminist. The football-playing boys act more queer than the movie’s actual queer people. In fact, the majority of the male characters are gotdamn fools. Leading the charge is former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, scoring laughs left and right as a false fact-spewing, going-through-a-divorce teacher who becomes the girls’ club sponsor.
The film’s reckless, absurdist abandon almost brings to mind the blatantly ludicrous, hyper-satirical style gay screenwriter/playwright/wicked wit Paul Rudnick brought to such major-studio farces as
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