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Senior Year

A cheerleading stunt gone wrong landed her in a 20-year coma. Now she’s 37, newly awake and ready to live out her high school dream: becoming prom queen

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Dove Review

Senior Year aims to be a farce about the differences between high school now and high school in the 2000’s. Unfortunately, the film, written by Arthur Pielli and directed by Alex Hardcastle, is more like high school in the movies.  

The story about Stephanie (Rebel Wilson), a blonde cheerleader, and her experience is fairly straightforward by cinema standards — she falls for a football player, wants to be a prom queen and hits her head and slips into a coma. Now she has to go back to school at 37 (like Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School) and convince everyone she’s still the coolest chick on campus (like Cher Horowitz in Clueless). While this would never happen in real life, there’s more movies than we can count that center on this exact same premise.   

Everything that happens is rote and predictable, from the groan-worthy references to the Yearbook quote platitudes, it’s color-by-the-numbers comedy that’s flat. The only thing interesting about Senior Year is how it tries to teach us a lesson on the setbacks of popularity yet does everything it can to be popular on Netflix. There’s no personality here — it’s just another “dumb blonde” trying to fit in.  

The Dove Take

This is one of those movies I really wanted to like — it’s got a great message about being yourself and not sacrificing your quirks to fit in — but there are just too many crude jokes and rehashed plot points that ruin the positive feedback.

Dove Rating Details

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Faith

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2
Integrity

A great message about being yourself and not sacrificing your quirks to fit in.

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Sex

None

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Language

Fifteen f-words. Thirteen uses of s**t.” And around five uses of “a**,” b***h,” “d**k,” “p***y,” “damn,” “slut,” and “gay” each. “Oh my God” is used upwards of 50 times.

Sexual Content (4): No sex, but more sex jokes than a high school locker room. I can’t fit them all here, so I’ll just give you a smattering. Someone strokes a straw like a penis. Someone makes anal jokes at least three times. More slut jokes than Clueless and Animal House combined. Provocative dancing at parties, rallies, etc…

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Violence

Cops show up at a party.

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Drugs

Alcohol, weed.

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Nudity

There’s a shot of a man spreading, his genitals blurred.

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Other

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