Film Review - My Old Ass (2024)

My Old Ass is written and directed by Megan Park and stars Maisy Stella as Elliot a young girl celebrating her 18th Birthday and preparing to go to Toronto for College and on her birthday night she gets high on mushrooms and sees her 39 year old future self (Aubrey Plaza) who tells her to be nicer to her family and avoid a man named Chad (Percy Hynes White.)

My Old Ass was a movie I avoided seeing in the cinema mainly because of the title, it was one of those titles that I thought was a little weird and other movies were playing at the same time that I wanted to see more but given this is an MGM/Amazon production it landed on Prime Video and I decided to catch up with it.

And I am very glad I did as I had a really fun time with this movie and began to regret not seeing it on the big screen with a crowd as firstly this movie is very funny and more than once I laughed out loud and those laughs would’ve been great when caught with the infectious laugh of a cinema crowd’s laugh and while there is a lot of coarse language that will bother some viewers it didn’t bother me and the films humour works very well.

What also works very well is the time travel element, Stella is good as Elliot’s young ass while Plaza is as good as her old ass and knows what to reveal and what not to reveal and I thought to myself “She’s following the Doc Brown rule regarding time travel” and that was that you shouldn’t know too much about your own future even though the future is not set and there’s no fate but what we make for ourselves and both Stella and Plaza have very good chemistry together despite doing most of their scenes through speaker phone calls.

And lastly this movie has a surprising amount of heart to it as well, the scenes with Old/Young Stella also have a sense of poignancy to them that Park balances very well with the comedy and the time travel elements of her storytelling, the young ass is about to go and live her life while the old ass has been there and knows what will happen so she passes on a few things for her younger ass to do a little differently and many of us I’m sure would like to be able to do just that at times I’m certain.

And so that was My Old Ass and don’t try to stare at your bum you’ll just hurt yourself trying but do watch this pair of old and young asses in this funny, heartfelt and fun time travel comedy, 3 and a half out of 5.