Booksmart

2019 comedy

Rating: 11/20 (Jeremy: 9/20)

Plot: Two graduating friends, after realizing they've wasted their high school years by taking school way too seriously, try to find a party to experience to make up for it.

More than a few laughs in the directing debut of Olivia Wilde, great-granddaughter of Oscar Wilde. Unfortunately, it leans on the cliches of raunchy teen comedies and coming-of-age movies far too often and really goes off the rails in its final third. Beanie Feldstein (Jonah Hill's little sister) and Kaitlyn Dever have a nice rapport, but it's a predictable rapport. I also liked Billie Lourd's wacky character. Lourd played Carrie Fisher's doppelganger in those two Star Wars movies. This works when it's just silly and nearly plotless, even when the oppressive soundtrack blares.