My Old Ass review – Aubrey Plaza adds texture to comedy of teen meeting future self

Park imagines a teen called Elliott (Maisy Stella), whose parents run a cranberry farm; it’s the end of the summer and she is about to begin university at Toronto, but is enjoying a glorious romance with a girl who works at a coffee shop. Then Elliott does shrooms with a couple of friends and has a wacky epiphany/vision: her supercool, cynical 39-year-old self, played by Plaza, appears to her. After a lot of freaked-out conversation, including an assessment of the relative firmness of their respective asses, and with much grumpy and adult-teen resentment from older Elliott at this enforced intimacy with her past self, she finally agrees to give young Elliott a piece of advice: stay away from a guy called Chad. And the next day, once Elliott has awoken from what she is now convinced was merely a lucid dream, she meets-cute with a guy called Chad (Percy Hynes White) who is super annoying but super nice and … well … you know.