Rebel Wilson

Review: Rebel Wilson stars in a Clueless-inspired high school movie. It's half-baked and unoriginal, yet somehow a total blast.

It's silly, cheerful, features bangers from the '90s and delivers a predictably happy ending. The familiar material goes to slightly more unique places when Stephanie and her '90s values mix with today's more progressive teens. The premise: Stephanie Conway is a high school cheerleader who wants the perfect life.

The comedy actress and producer discusses her growth in Hollywood over the past decade and the benefits of premiering her film on video streaming over a ...

She was so wonderful from the second I met her, she recognized the fact that I was the youngest on-set and that it was a little bit difficult and a little bit intimidating. With Senior Year skipping a theatrical release and going the increasingly trending route of premiering on video streaming, Rebel says of her comedy’s Netflix release, “To me, to release a comedy, it’s like the best platform because this movie will go wide in 200 countries on the same day and will be seen by millions and millions. “I remember like when I got in Bridesmaids, my goal was to just to come to Hollywood and get in one American movie. She made sure that it felt like summer camp when we were in Atlanta. We would go to movies and baseball games and dinners and she corralled us all and was such a great leader.” “My opinion of social media is I think I thank my parents for this, but I got onto social media very late, at least comparatively to a lot of my friends. I was like God, if I could just get in one, then people in Australia will think I’m legit as an actress and then Bridesmaids was such a huge hit. I think honestly, if you’re just like posting things that you love and make you happy and you want to share with the world, that’s all you really can do. “Most people don’t know I have a law degree and so, I kind of use some of the business side of things in the producing and it’s a different set of skills to acting. I couldn’t imagine - I mean, someone getting bullied at school is worse enough but then if you’re getting bullied through your phone as well, things like that, it can be really awful and just a whole other set of issues.” Being a part of the younger generation on social media himself, Joshua tells me, “I definitely have experienced times where I’m like Oh no, I didn’t get enough ‘Likes’ on this picture or my engagement is going down or something like that - it’s so stupid. I just rock up on-set and say funny stuff, but the producing - there’s a lot of work behind the scenes and a movie like this takes years to come together and put together and to bring in the whole team of talented people. There are so many differences between 2022 and 2002 culturally and in society and as a comic premise, that is going to be pretty good.”

In it, Rebel plays Stephanie Conway, a cheerleader who has been in a coma for 20 years. Once she wakes up, she decides she wants to go back to high school and ...

Once she wakes up, she decides she wants to go back to high school and redo her senior year. Of course, we weren't the only ones. "You look like a mermaid," said another.

The best scene in Senior Year on Netflix is Rebel Wilson performing Britney Spears' song 'Crazy.' Watch the full Senior Year dance scene here.

In a behind-the-scenes video released by Netflix, which you can watch above along with the full “Crazy” dance scene, Wilson said they rehearsed the number over the course of five days. “In a couple takes, our director Alex Hardcastle was like, ‘I thought for a second that was Britney.'” Equally impressive are the teen actors, some of whom, it turns out, are pretty amazing dancers. So it’s only fitting that Wilson’s character, Stephanie, would turn to Britney in a time of need. Much of Senior Year—the new Netflix comedy starring Rebel Wilson that began streaming today—is spent on nostalgia. But curiously, a lot of that nostalgia is for the year 1999, rather than 2002.

Rebel Wilson gets a second chance at her perfect life in "Senior Year." The hilarious new comedy features the actress as Stephanie Conway, a woman who wakes ...

From channeling Salt-N-Pepa for a quick "push it" maneuver to creating interpretive dance tributes to classic films, Stephanie always brings her own era into the picture when she hits the dance floor, whether the other kids in her class are into it or not. Throughout the film, fans are treated to a bounty of Wilson's signature humor, including her flirty one-liners and gift for deadpan, and she also gets the chance to shake it in a key scene. Robin is a fearlessly flirty and unapologetically anti-relationship spitfire, which makes her the constant life of the party, and she gives into her goofiest side at every possible occasion. Whether it's a stiff company holiday function with a ballroom full of her bosses or a massive New Year's bash where she doesn't know a soul, Robin does not hesitate to always make the most of any opportunity to have fun. Of course, before they can get to that stage, there's a lot of regrouping that must happen between the gals, and Amy also has to come to terms with her darkest secret: She's in love with the group's former arch nemesis, Bumper (Adam DeVine). And after initially scorning him, she decides to try and win him back with a serenade that somehow manages to be funnier than the POTUS birthday bonanza. In her unforgettable introduction in the film, she dazzles her fellow Bellas with her signature move — the mermaid dance, which features her flailing her legs on the ground without an ounce of grace and somehow making it work for her. As Stephanie, Wilson is hysterical, radiating with the energy of a girl who's truly stuck in the '90s but learns to hold her own in a modern world of social media and new norms with her sunny disposition. Wilson's character in the show is Kimberley "Kimmie" Boubier, an attorney with a youthful demeanor, who spends every Friday evening with her two best friends (Lauren Ash and Liza Lapira) for, as the title indicates, their own "Super Fun Nights." After Wilson proved to be a spotlight-stealer on the cinematic nuptial scene, she then appeared in the 2012 romantic comedy adaptation of "What to Expect When You're Expecting." Wilson stars in the film as Janice, an enthusiastic employee at a prestigious breastfeeding supplies boutique and trusty assistant to its owner, Wendy Cooper (Elizabeth Banks), who's currently enduring a difficult pregnancy. As Janice, Wilson is characteristically zany, but her antics always come from a good place of trying to help her boss succeed in both her professional life and personal efforts. And she really gets into the groove alongside the guests at her reception, where she can finally relax and enjoy her newly married status in style. Though everything around her has changed, from fashion to technology to the very way people interact with one another, Stephanie's goals are still the same — become the prom queen and marry the man of her dreams.