‘Prom Dates’ Proves the Teen-Girl Raunchy Sex Comedy Is Here to Stay, Thank God

For a while there, high school sex comedies used to be the realm of the boys. In their heyday, the genre was dominated by the Superbads, the Napoleon Dynamites, the American Pies—raunchy, goofy movies about the absurdity of being a teenager, having all this energy and nowhere to put it. Then something shifted, and we started delving deeper into the other end of the spectrum, tuning in to find out what a girl actually wants and immortalizing it in absurdist, hilarious movies like Booksmart, Blockers, and Bottoms.