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.

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.

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.”

Awake after a coma, former cheerleader tries to be popular with today's teens in forgettable Netflix film.

“Senior Year” doesn’t come across as condescending or cynical; it’s just harmless and sweetly dopey and instantly forgettable. Conveniently enough, her best friend Martha (Mary Holland) is now the school principal, while her other pal Seth (Sam Richardson), who always had a crush on her, is the school librarian. Remarkably, Stephanie is suddenly fully recovered, but as the doctor points out, “Physically she’s aged, but mentally she’s 17.”

Netflix comedy has nothing to say about 2002 or now, other than that both exist. Adam Graham. Detroit News Film Critic. Talk about senioritis. "Senior Year ...

When she awakens — the coma and its aftereffects are taken about as seriously as they would be in an "SNL" sketch — she's played by Rebel Wilson, and she's keen to pick up right where she left off. Otherwise "Senior Year" is as vapid as its lead character. Otherwise this dreadful fish out of water story is about as fresh as an episode of "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment," one of the few 2002 properties the movie doesn't mention by name.

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.

Rebel Wilson and Justin Hartley spoke to Newsweek about their new Netflix comedy "Senior Year" which features a cameo from "Clueless" star Alicia ...

The character was outrageous, he was a stripper and it was outrageous but it was a lot of fun. "So, it's really funny to just pretend you're like that little 17-year-old poncing around, and that mentality, because a lot has changed culturally and in society in the last 20 years. this idea that it's okay to be your own person and you don't have to conform and be kind be nice." "I would say every take with [Rebel] is a bit different, and it's not a bit different for any other reasons other than by design. I was like 'When's the day that Alicia Silverstone is coming?' because Clueless was just such an amazing movie, it's such an iconic film," Wilson said. And what was your life like at the time?'

The Australian star told Newsweek that although she "mostly" did the dancing in her new film herself, she also relied on stunt doubles who stepped in for ...

"I might get a little bored, I tend to like to roam around quite a bit and travel… "There's a lot of Stephanie that I relate to, like how she does the vision boards and she has a strategy for becoming popular, that was also me," Wilson said. He added: "Put it this way, I'm glad I don't have to go back to high school! Like, if for some reason I had to go back to high school I feel like I would adapt pretty well." "I did have my stunt double Meredith come in and [she] did the flips, which was like really cool because I don't think she has a gymnastics background," Wilson said. I don't want to get injured like my character does in the film.

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.