Senior Year is the Netflix produced comedy starring Rebel Wilson. Wilson plays Stephanie, a high school popular girl and head cheerleader who thinks she has her dream life planned out, only to be subjected to a life altering, sabotaging injury that puts her in a coma for 20 years. When she wakes up she has to figure out how she’s going to move forward with her life.
The plot was a cool idea but the script ended up being very predictable and also unrealistic at times. It gave me Never Been Kissed and Easy A vibes. There were funny parts but there were also a lot of awkward, cringey parts and plenty of corny jokes too. I liked the references to the early 2000s with the music, fashion and the homages to Brittany Spears were also cute.
I appreciated the diversity in gender, sexual identity and ethnicity in the casting, however the majority of those minority cast members were one dimensional. I would have liked a deeper dive into those characters stories. Rebel did a great job leading the cast. Her character was complex; a juvenile in a woman’s body, someone who was immature and selfish at times but deep down had a good heart.
Overall Senior Year was an entertaining and heartfelt film with great themes around not letting high school define you, being your authentic self and only caring about what the people who love you think about you. Even though this isn’t a movie I would watch again, it was still a fun mood lifter.
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