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Speaker 1: Break the Flick with Ben on ninety six a FM. Ben,

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Speaker 1: We've been intrigued for days now with what it is

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Speaker 1: that you're reviewing. I feel like you've built it up

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Speaker 1: so much now and maybe set some unrealistic expectations in

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Speaker 1: the minds of in the listeners. I was listening on

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Speaker 1: the way in this morning podcast. I heard you say

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Speaker 1: that ben o'she is coming out to talk about bottoms.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what people think I'm here to do

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Speaker 1: today plug an only fans account. I don't know what,

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Speaker 1: but I can tell you that. So this new comedy,

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Speaker 1: it's a coming of age kind of teen comedy, and

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Speaker 1: it's called Bottoms. But even though there are some bits

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Speaker 1: of it that are a little bit risky, it's not

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Speaker 1: about bottoms. It's not about dairy as buttocks, nothing like that.

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Speaker 1: But it is about these two friends, these two BFFs

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Speaker 1: that are the bottom of the food chain in the

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Speaker 1: social hierarchy in their high school. So they're the bottom,

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Speaker 1: the bottom dwellers, the bottom feeders. So that's basically where

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Speaker 1: the bottoms comes from, right, So it's a about there. Look,

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Speaker 1: you can you can imagine it is if you like.

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Speaker 1: And so there are these movies are a dime a dozen, right,

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Speaker 1: and most of them are pretty forgettable. You've got the

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Speaker 1: all time classics, like you've got your mean Girls and

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Speaker 1: your Heathers and You're Clueless and You're super Bad. B

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Speaker 1: Heathers was such a good film, super Bad, and so

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Speaker 1: you've got some awesome films there. And this might be

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Speaker 1: a bit controversial to some people, but I will say

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Speaker 1: the bottoms just as good as any of them. Really,

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Speaker 1: Like is an absolute cracker. I went in with very

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Speaker 1: crack tempered expectations. Yeah, how many bottom how many bottom

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Speaker 1: jokes you get? Any one fell out effect for that Listen,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be the butt of any jokes here.

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Speaker 1: And now I'll throw it over to you guys. But

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Speaker 1: the film tells a story. The film tells the story

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Speaker 1: of these two BFFs, PJ and Josie, who are lesbians.

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Speaker 1: They're virgins, and so just like in super Bad, where

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Speaker 1: the always in that film go, do you know what,

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Speaker 1: We're going to college next year after finishing high school,

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Speaker 1: so you know, the pop the cherry, let's like get

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Speaker 1: it done before we go to high school, before we

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Speaker 1: go to college, and you know, and then we'll be

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Speaker 1: laughing at They take the same kind of approach, right,

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Speaker 1: but they're the bottom twenty twenty three style. Yeah, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three styles, so very much, so and so, and

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Speaker 1: they realize that, you know, that the ultimate would be

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Speaker 1: if they can hook up with the two hottest cheerleaders

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Speaker 1: in high school. So they set their sights very high.

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Speaker 1: And one of these cheerleaders will look very familiar to

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Speaker 1: viewers because she's the daughter of Cindy Crawford, kaya girl.

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Speaker 1: She looks exactly like Sidney Crawford, and so she is

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Speaker 1: one of the cheerleaders. But don't They can't even talk

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Speaker 1: to them. They don't have any way of interacting with

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Speaker 1: these cheerleaders. So they realize the best strategy will be

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Speaker 1: if they start a self defense club for all of

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Speaker 1: the girls in the high school. But because they don't

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Speaker 1: know anything about self defense, it basically just devolves into

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Speaker 1: a fight club, and instead of teaching them anything really useful,

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Speaker 1: they just get all the high school girls into the

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Speaker 1: gymnays and go all right, let's just like beat the

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Speaker 1: Jesus out of each other and hopefully we learn something

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Speaker 1: along the way. And it becomes so popular that these

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Speaker 1: two girls, PJ and Josie becomes sort of you know,

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Speaker 1: cult figures in the high school, and so they're loving life.

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Speaker 1: They're getting closer forming bonds with these cheerleaders as they're

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Speaker 1: sort of wrestling in the gym under the watchful supervision

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Speaker 1: of their really disinterested history teacher who's going through his

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Speaker 1: own divorce. For NFL exactly, and it's the casting is

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Speaker 1: quite incredible here. They've cast NFL superstar mush On Lynch,

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Speaker 1: who was known as Beast Mode in the NFL because

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Speaker 1: he's just insane. He's retired now and he's fantastic. Like

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Speaker 1: it could be the new sort of like Snoop Dogg

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Speaker 1: kind of crossover from another industry into movie. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: definitely not that. And so but as they get more

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Speaker 1: and more popular, it leads to its own problems. So

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Speaker 1: it starts to create friction within their really tight friendship group,

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Speaker 1: and it also creates this jealousy and envy with the

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Speaker 1: high school football team, who are used to being the

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Speaker 1: in the final you know, sort of homecoming football game

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Speaker 1: the top satire, so it's a sort of movie that

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Speaker 1: isn't fully grounded in reality. Like you've got the jocks

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Speaker 1: full football game, which is not something that actually happens

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Speaker 1: in real life. But the way the film leans into

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Speaker 1: it is so fun that you go along with it

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Speaker 1: and you go, you know what, that's fine. I can

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Speaker 1: live with it because the satire of social conventions and

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Speaker 1: gender and sexuality is so legit you kind of forgive

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Speaker 1: all of these extra things. You forgive the fact that

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Speaker 1: the plot is kind of nonsensical, because the statements that

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Speaker 1: it makes about high school life and just society in

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Speaker 1: general like really solid, like as good as a lot

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Speaker 1: of serious, highbrow comedies while wrapped up people do that

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Speaker 1: can twist the two together. Yeah, Yeah, it's good, good movie.

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Speaker 1: Its it's wowing wowing a lot of critics like myself

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Speaker 1: around the world. So like people like the New York

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Speaker 1: Times have loved it, The La Times have loved it,

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Speaker 1: The Washington Post loves it. It is a film that

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Speaker 1: I think will go down as one of the best

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Speaker 1: comedies of twenty twenty three, and it deserves to be,

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Speaker 1: Like I would say, it's better than Bridesmaids, better than Bridesmaids.

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Speaker 1: So you did mention, yes, suddenly you mentioned super Bad

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Speaker 1: Judd Apatow. Does it get as silly as that, because

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Speaker 1: that is very silly, So it probably doesn't get quite

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Speaker 1: as silly as that, and it probably ends up having

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Speaker 1: a little bit more heart too, like a real kind

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Speaker 1: of emotional depth, which you know is probably not a

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Speaker 1: surprise when you go from a film about teenage boys

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Speaker 1: to a film about teenage girls. It's a little bit

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Speaker 1: more thoughtful. But it is also hilarious, like it is

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Speaker 1: genuinely hilarious. And for fans of The Bear, the excellent

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Speaker 1: show on Disney Plus, so ao Eda Biri, who plays

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Speaker 1: Sydney in The Bear, is one of the main characters.

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Speaker 1: She plays. She plays Josie and is awesome, Like she

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Speaker 1: is so funny and she's fantastic, and this is well

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Speaker 1: Rachel Sennet is the other league character who's also amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's a really good young cast, a lot of faces

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Speaker 1: that people might not be familiar with, apart from Kaya Gerber,

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Speaker 1: who looks like her mum. But aside from that, like

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Speaker 1: I thoroughly recommend this man. People can it all? Right? Well?

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Speaker 1: How many? First rule of bottoms is don't talk about bostrooms,

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Speaker 1: bottom club. I'm going to give this four. It's a

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Speaker 1: four star. It's a ripper. By the way, you did

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Speaker 1: mention tit for tat. You broke the rules. It was

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Speaker 1: just be about bottoms Many well done,