Booksmart was funny as hell.
As the title implies the film is in fact smart, the jokes are usually witty and well delivered by the excellent co-leads Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein). On top of the consistently funny gags the film's gives an earnest portrayal of two best friends struggling with their identities and what the end of high school really means for their relationship. It manages to work through some pretty heady material without ever dragging the tone too far away from the playful vibe it starts off with.
The film should also be celebrated for managing to portray LGBTQ people as actual people instead of feeling the need to point it out every scene and reduce those characters to this one aspect of their identity. The gay characters make jokes, they are the butt of jokes, but their mere existence is not treated as a joke and that was gratifying to see.
In terms of gripes, I think the use of music is sometimes a little overbearing, the score is hard to ignore because it gets really loud and frequently plays over the sounds onscreen, there is one particularly poignant sequence towards the end of the film where they cut the diegetic sound and start playing music and it would've been way more effective if they'd just left it quiet.
Despite getting in its own way in that regard, the film is enormously entertaining and has more heart than it has any right to have while still being so funny. An auspicious directorial debut for Olivia Wilde.
9/10 It Got Into Yale, Ok?