Like a bombastic Barbie, BOTTOMS is a riff on director Emma Seligman’s earlier film with actor Rachel Sennot, Shiva Baby, as well as Sennot’s other starrer, Tahara.

BOTTOMS sees Seligman team with Sennot as co writer and the result is a sparky, spikey satire couched in the cliches of the high school comedy.

Sennot has cornered the market in self-absorbed disasters and her character here comes up with a supreme train wreck of an idea: form a fight club so as to seduce cheerleaders and loose their lesbian cherries.

Channelling Heathers and Mean Girls, BOTTOMS comes up tops in sheer politically incorrect chutzpah.

Sennot plays PJ who press gangs her pal, Josie, played by Ayo Edebiri into co-presiding over this audacious move. PJ has the hots for Brittany while Josie lusts after Isabel.

These alluring objects of desire are played by the drop dead gorgeous, Kaia Jordan Gerber and Havana Rose Liu, respectively.

Slyly self deprecating in its deconstructive drollery, BOTTOMS comes out on top of The Patriarchy, which is ridiculed unmercifully in myriad modes, from narcissistic footy players, coercive controllers, knuckle headed numb nuts, and toxic revengers.

The leads are on point but there’s a particularly winning performance from Ruby Cruz as Hazel, a hard wired, can do anarchic activist. If BOTTOMS ever spawns a sequel – dare I propose UPS? – hers would be a formidable fable to pursue.

A wicked poke at woke, a prod at prudery, as well as an examination of first flush crush that either blossoms into romance, evolves into platonic friendship, or fizzles for lack of frisson.

BOTTOMS goes to outlandish lengths to ignite the unrequited and largely lands the laughs.