Although the high school genre often focuses on a rites of passage for its protagonists, the genre itself offers such an experience for its audience itself, with every generation having their own.

For instance, the seventies had Grease, the eighties had Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club, the nineties had 10 Things I Hate About You and Clueless, the noughties had Superbad and Mean Girls, and most recently we’ve had Booksmart and Bottoms.

This most recent one comes by way of Netflix, being one of their original features, and is most definitely a trip back to old skool.

The time has finally come for friends Benj (Mason Thames), Connor (Raphael Alejandro), Eddie (Ramon Reed) and Koosh (Bardia Seiri) as they make that tentative step into high school as freshmen.

Their intentions are to make a splash at Waymont High, giving them the opportunity to reinvent themselves to some degree, but when Connor picks up the nickname Foetus on day one, it doesn’t look good.

However, when Koosh announces that he and his older brother are holding a joint party at the end of the week, whereby they would be the only freshman in attendance, they are fuelled equally by hope and excitement.

And the truth is, it turns out to be a party that none of them will forget.

Not only is this the type of high school comedy flick that introduces a lot of fresh faces on screen, but it also serves as the directorial debut for Dave and John Chernin, with a script they also wrote.

It’s about as formulaic as is gets, with a bunch of kids managing to get into a party where they really shouldn’t be at, with copious amounts of drinking and beer pong. So much so that it feels like every teen party ever seen on film.

You also get a sense of it being the bros Chenin’s first film too, with some of the acting being on the rough side, which is only to be expected from such a fresh-faced, young cast. You do come away thinking that much of this is down to the inexperienced directors themselves however, and their inability to capture that pure teen spirit.

That said, the film has a fair share of smutty charm, as the youngsters do their best to bring personality into a fairly pedestrian script.

It’s actually at its funniest when two of its characters find themselves in a car together, with a troublesome passenger in the back, played perfectly by Loren Gray.

The fact that it offers nothing new to the high school experience means it doesn’t get the highest report card, and yet time spent at Waymont High offers more in the way of nostalgia, albeit a false one for many of us, who only experienced it vicariously through other characters in film.

So not the greatest teen party ever thrown, and certainly not the most memorable, but like the real things often enough, it has its moments.