Senior Year

The actress is sprightly as ever, but Alex Hardcastle's Netflix comedy will send audiences in search of the stuff it attempts to imitate.

Little in “Senior Year” will surprise, and the film chugs through its predictable beats with good humor, but there’s not much else to recommend it. “Senior Year” stalls out while trying to thread the needle between the old and the new, instead finding its biggest insights (and best laughs) in a well-trod truism: People don’t change. The film’s script — credited to co-star Brandon Scott Jones, plus Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli — does attempt to interrogate those bad old habits (a scene in which Holland’s adult Martha explains to Stephanie that she can’t say “gay” as a pejorative is handled nicely, and actually has dramatic payoff), while also taking aim at our increasingly “woke” modern world. Thanks to the kind of contrivances only available in soft but well-meaning comedies (her old BFF Martha, played by the winning Mary Holland, is now the school’s principal; no one seems freaked out by the possibility of an adult woman hanging with teens all day), grown-up Stephanie is allowed to complete the final month of her senior year at the old high school. It stands to reason that Stephanie Conway, the Aussie outcast at the center of Alex Hardcastle’s “ Senior Year” would have seen “Never Been Kissed.” Released in 1999 — almost exactly when Hardcastle’s film starts — Drew Barrymore’s high school rom-com followed a well-meaning, dorky kid as she embarks on a do-over after a humiliating teen experience. But, oh, Stephanie dreams of being popular too, eventually making it happen through sheer force of will (plus tons of tips from teen magazines of the day, a cute touch) and by 2002, she’s the the queen bee of her senior year.

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By the final act, its dialogue is so burdened by inspirational maxims about personal authenticity that it feels as though the script has been hijacked by yearbook quotes. The big joke is the radical vibe shift in youth culture from hierarchy to equality. Stephanie’s final pre-coma memory is of a basket toss that carried her 10 feet into the air, a height from which she could see her whole future: She would be prom queen, marry a hunky jock and spend the rest of her life in suburban bliss.

This review of the Netflix film Senior Year (2022) does not contain spoilers. The film will be released on May 13, 2022. A common trope done in comedy is.

This hurts Senior Year because it takes what could have been an outlandish and fun concept and makes it into something that only a small group of people will really take the time to appreciate. However, this film just can’t overcome the poor writing that could have used a little less “wokeness” and a little more heart. People who don’t fully understand the younger generations, and perceive them as a trend or a viral video. If Senior Year does anything right, it’s reminding us of what made Rebel Wilson so funny in the past. Rebel Wilson has been thriving as a character actor ever since her performance as Fat Amy in the Pitch Perfect trilogy. Senior Year tells the story of Stephanie (Rebel Wilson), a cheer captain and soon-to-be prom queen, who, after an accident during one of her cheer routines, finds herself in a coma.

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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.”

Rebel Wilson recycles her usual shtick in this retrograde raunch-com about a woman reclaiming her high school life.

While the kooky shenanigans and hijinks don’t yield much in the way of heart or humor, its snappy pace and the leading lady’s comedic prowess make it just worthy enough for your Netflix queue. Her teenage aspirations of one day owning the most picturesque house in town are quickly dashed when she discovers adult Tiffany (Zoe Chao) and Blaine (Justin Hartley) are married and living there. Her scenes with writer-actor Jones, who also co-starred with her in the aforementioned film, show off their pleasant rapport, yet sadly can’t save the picture. Her nuance also elevates the material, specifically in the third act, when the script calls on her to sell her character’s inevitable change from selfish to selfless. It doesn’t take long for Senior Year to lay out its outlandish premise, which is centered on a popular high schooler who awakens from a two-decade-long coma and, hoping to pick up right where she left off, strives to finish her senior year at the age of 37. Tragedy strikes when jealous class bully Tiffany (Ana Yi Puig) sabotages their show-stopping, Bring It On-esque cheer routine, landing the 17-year-old in a hospital bed, stuck in a coma.

Senior Year is the newest comedy from Netflix and the Rebel Wilson-starring film is packed with music but just which songs feature in the soundtrack?

- Only You (And You Alone)by The Platters - Fast (Motion)by Saweetie - The Bad Touchby The Bloodhound Gang

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The plot itself is neither here nor there, simply a new contrivance to tell a fish-out-of-water story. Nor is it punchy enough for the meanness to feel anything other than a poor facsimile of truth. Throughout two hours of cliché 21st-century high school "humour", Senior Year fails to take off.

Rebel Wilson (Stephanie Conway) · Angourie Rice (Young Stephanie Conway) · Justin Hartley (Blaine) · Zoë Chao (Tiffany) · Mary Holland (Martha) · Sam Richardson ( ...

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Prom and graduation both include lengthy choreographed dances that definitely could've been trimmed or cut to keep the movie from being nearly two hours long. But Janet eventually tells her that if she wants anything to happen at the school, she'll have to win over Bri, Tiffany's daughter. Blaine is with Tiffany by the time Stephanie wakes up from her coma, and the couple is married with a daughter. Now that she's graduated, Stephanie is interested in going to college and tells the guidance counselor that she'll do anything to get in while making sexual gestures. When Blaine makes a final, desperate attempt to win Stephanie back at the prom, he mentions that he has "a naughty thing for prom queens." Stephanie calls Tiffany the "buttroids" on her butt and Tiffany replies by calling her a "koala-ass." Everything Stephanie does and says in the movie theater is uncomfortable to witness. Even after Martha calls out how inappropriate the interactions between Stephanie and the students are, Stephanie continues to act exactly the same. During their cheer routine at the school pep rally, right when Stephanie goes up in a big basket-toss stunt, Tiffany apparently convinces their teammates to let her fall to the ground. On the way to school, Stephanie slams on the breaks, causing Seth to hit his head on the dashboard. In their next scene, Stephanie is sitting on Blaine's lap as they make out and loudly discuss their plans to have sex at prom — all of which is happening in the middle of class. She makes fun of Stephanie and her "freak show" friends for hanging out at the Rock 'N' Bowl. But Tiffany is also there, and it's already been described as a "cool" hangout spot.

“Senior Year” takes two high-concept premises—the going-back-to-high-school movie and the waking-up-from-a-coma movie—and slams them together in an ...

Is “Senior Year” mocking this cultural shift as a bad thing, as performative “wokeness,” to borrow a reductive phrase? This is the era in which everyone gets a trophy, and people love you if you post on social media about how passionate you are about environment. And if “Senior Year” is trying to say anything at all about how different things are for young people now, it’s not doing so with much force or clarity. (Holland in particular has terrific comic timing.) Justin Hartley shows up as the hunky, grown-up version of her high school boyfriend, who’s now married to mean-girl Tiffany (Zoë Chao). It’s a strong supporting cast, which makes it frustrating that they don’t get much to play beyond a couple of character traits. That’s been the perky, blonde Stephanie’s obsessive quest since she moved to the United States from Australia as an awkward 14-year-old. It’s a decent vehicle for the bawdy charms of Rebel Wilson, who continues to establish herself as an appealing comic lead beyond being a reliably irreverent sidekick.

Directed by Alex Hardcastle. Starring Rebel Wilson, Justin Hartley, Angourie Rice, Sam Richardson, Zoe Chao, Mary Holland, Chris Parnell, Jade Bender, Alicia ...

I would say Senior Year is most likely to crash and burn, but the film does that itself two minutes in. There’s also a moment where Senior Year flashes back to the teenage Stephanie, leading one to believe that the script will stick with both ages of the character, but it’s really for an emotionally manipulative sequence with her sick mother. What ensues is an onslaught of fish-out-of-water humor as Stephanie gets reacquainted with everyone in her past (the warm and polite Sam Richardson now plays Seth, Blaine is Justin Hartley, now married to Zoe Chao’s Tiffany, and Mary Holland is Martha), with everyone conveniently working for the school assisting with getting Stephanie reenrolled to finish her final month of high school. It’s hard to figure out what the screenwriters fail at more; scoring laughs through a grounded depiction of high school life or social media. In terms of comedy, the only kind thing there is to say about director Alex Hardcastle’s Senior Year is that star Rebel Wilson is not subjected to a barrage of bottom-of-the-barrel jokes about her figure. Except for Seth and Martha, these characters are irritating from the get-go, but once it becomes clear that Stephanie’s motivation for winning Prom Queen comes from a personal tragedy involving the death of her terminally ill mother, there is an undercurrent of shamelessly forced melodrama beneath all the selfish, gratingly annoying behavior.