It’s not an understatement to say thatBut I’m A Cheerleader. I don’t even want to write about it because this movie elicits a pre-, no, post-verbal joy in its pure ridonkulousness. What a wild ride.
Man, Emma Seligman just gets it. The teen experience, the teen gay experience, the gross and shameful and liberating catharsis of bloodlust and extremely silly horniness. In an increasingly bland last few years of sanitized, touchy-feely queer teen movies, Seligman gives us one with some actual punch. Rachel Sennott as P.J.
The rest of the cast not only keeps up, but each is memorably weird in their own way – we’ve got concerningly emotional tweaker girl, openly freaky religious girl, bomb-obsessed sidekick, pansexual cheerleader, supportive deadbeat teacher and club sponsor, and of course, Jeff, boyfriend of Josie’s love interest Isabel, and the fruitiest football star to ever vibe to “Total Eclipse of the Heart” while his house gets egged by a bunch of gay losers. Like, the ensemble doesn’t have a weak link.
: It doesn’t bother with subtly ragging on behaviors of teen males, it fully overplays them, characters commenting on their own archetypes, but never in a pedantic way. The more serious notes underpinning the script, nods to the darker side of being a teen girl, are neither dwelled on nor brushed off – they’re just presented as a part of life, as much as wanting to bone a hot cheerleader.
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