September 12, 2023 – Silly, but funny, high school comedy about two girls who are social outcasts trying to connect with other girls by starting a high school fight club. None of this makes any sense, but it works as part of a general scheme of exaggerating personal, educational and social failings for comic effect.

Longtime lesbian friends, PJ (Rachel Sennott of “Shiva Baby”) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”) are social outcasts at Rockbridge Falls High School. They want to get close to the best-looking, coolest girls in school, but don't know how. Then PJ, who has a habit of talking Josie into crazy schemes, has an idea to start a fight club for girls in school for this very purpose.

The club, allegedly to teach girls self defense skills, becomes popular because of the threat of violence from students at another school, Huntington High School. There is a real dark side to the rivalry between Rockbridge and Huntington, and some students have been injured or killed in the past because of this rivalry.

Despite the fact that only one girl, Hazel Callahan (Ruby Cruz of the “Mare of Easttown” TV miniseries) in the fight club has any martial arts skills at all, the fight club works out better than it has any right to, and both PJ and Josie develop friendships with girls in the club.

Part of Josie's “street cred” for running a fight club is the rumor PJ started that Josie is tough because of her hard time in a juvenile detention facility. This is a lie which comes back to haunt her, and the club. When Josie learns that the Huntington football team plans to kill Jeff (Nicholas Galitzine of “Red, White & Royal Blue”) the star Rockbridge quarterback, Josie and PJ have to try to rally their club members to save Jeff at the big Rockbridge-Huntington football game. Sheer madness ensues.

Josie has a crush on Jeff's on again, off again girlfriend, Isabel (Havana Rose Liu of “No Exit”). Jeff is not only a dim pretty boy, but he is also a lying cheat, so Josie, PJ and most of the rest of the club don't really have a good reason to save his life, but they decide to try anyway just because it is the right thing to do. It is real heroism, but very silly and utterly outrageous.

This fight club group's final actions in the movie reminded me a bit of the final defiant actions of Delta Tau Chi in “National Lampoon's Animal House” (1978). The fight club's final stand is not quite as pointless as that of Delta Tau Chi's, but it is equally outrageous. But more than that, this is a movie about friendship, people falling in and out of love, and people just desperately trying to connect with other people, any way they can.

The actors in the movie are effective, including former football star Marshawn Lynch, who plays ineffective teacher and club advisor, Mr. G. It is all outrageous and silly, but I laughed a lot during the course of this movie, and for that reason, this movie rates a B.

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