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Bottoms: parents' guide

16+our pick

Best for ages 16 and up. Rated R for crude sexual content, pervasive language and some violence.

A raunchy, absurd high school comedy for older teens, about two unpopular queer girls who start a so-called self-defense club, really a fight club, to get close to the cheerleaders they like. Nearly everything is played for laughs, but the content is heavy: more than 90 f-words and homophobic slurs, constant crude sex talk, make-outs in underwear, sex implied off screen, and cartoonishly gory brawls that end with students killed on a football field. Jokes touch on sexual assault, a student's suicide and blowing up the school. One character smokes what may be a joint. Best for 16 and up.

What's in it

Violence

Strong

Club members trade punches that leave bloody lips, black eyes and broken noses. The finale is a gory melee in which a football player is run through with a sword and another's head bursts in blood after a kick. A car is blown up.

Language

Strong

Pervasive: one review counted more than 90 f-words, 30 s-words and two c-words, plus about 15 misuses of God's name, crude terms for anatomy and a homophobic slur scrawled on the main characters' lockers.

Sex and nudity

Moderate

No live nudity, though a painted mural shows a classmate fully nude. Teen girls kiss, sometimes in bed in their underwear, and two are implied to have sex off screen. A boy is heard having sex with a classmate's mother. Crude sex talk is constant.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Moderate

One brief moment: a side character smokes something that could be a big cigar or a marijuana blunt. No drinking or other drug use is reported.

Scary or intense scenes

Moderate

Mostly too silly to scare, but the bloody climax kills several students on screen, a character talks about wanting to bomb the school, and another vows to kill her stepfather. The comic tone softens it.

Sensitive topics

  • School violence

Worth talking about

PJ and Josie build their whole club on lies to look tough and win over their crushes. When does a lie told to fit in start hurting other people?

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, moviemom.com, Wikipedia. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.