Shamelessly scraping the muck from the comedy barrel and combining it with something much smarter and more satirical, Bottoms sees writer-director Emma Seligman and star Rachel Sennott follow the superb Shiva Baby in raucous and very naughty style. It’s a film in the thirsty tradition of Booksmart and The To Do List with its focus on misfit girls gone wild.

Mocking the trend of casting older actors in the roles of teens, 28-year-olds Sennott and Ayo Edebiri (of The Bear fame) play horny high-schoolers PJ and Josie. Labelled ‘gay, untalented and ugly’ by their peers, the pair reinvent themselves as tough girls following an altercation with an obnoxious jock, starting a female fight club in an attempt to seduce cheerleaders played by Havana Rose Liu and Kaia Gerber. Former NFL star Marshawn Lynch is the laidback teacher roped into helping them, while Nicholas Galitzine is hysterically OTT as the aforementioned jock.

Seligman and Sennott collaborated on the script this time and they squeeze in some serious points about sexism and solidarity in amidst the goofiness. Edebiri and Sennott’s knack for naturalism gives the broad material an appealingly offbeat edge; they bounce brilliantly off each other, amping up the teen angst and each bringing their distinct comic shtick to the roles.

Although Bottoms is out-there enough for not everything to come off, it flits with ease from the silly to the sardonic to the surreal to the gasp-inducingly outrageous. Highlights include some light terrorism brilliantly set to Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’, while it culminates in a full-throttle fist fight on an American football field. It’s a riot, girl.

Bottoms is in cinemas from Friday 3 November.