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.

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.”

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.

Rebel Wilson's 37-year-old Stephanie goes back to school in this light-hearted drama. Read Pinkvilla's review of the film below.

All in all, Rebel Wilson's Senior Year is the kind of film you put on when you want to watch something that's light-hearted and fun. It's a film that assures a happy ending and what more could you ask for during a time when everything around the world seems quite uncertain. Although it's a tad unkind to see all the good changes that Martha (Mary Holland) has brought into the school thanks to her own experience. Circumstances are different now with Conways' school friends, have changed considerably, with Martha (Mary Holland) becoming Harding High’s principal, Seth (Sam Richardson) working as a librarian, and the reigning student Brie (Jade Bender) is the daughter of her high-school nemesis Tiffany (Zoe Chao) and ex Blaine (Justin Hartley). Will the changing world finally make Stephanie realise that life isn't all that exciting if you chase being popular all your life is what is left to see. Following her 14th birthday, Stephanie decides to give her life a massive turnaround and channels all her energy into becoming the most popular girl in her school by becoming the cheer captain. It takes the whole genre's worth of cliches to come together to bring a film like Senior Year. With a concept that's borrowed from the likes of Drew Barrymore's Never Been Kissed, the refurbished version starring Rebel Wilson has little novelty to offer.

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.