My Old Ass is a coming of age movie that tosses some unexplained magic in the story centered around taking mushrooms that provides us with a lovely little movie with some wonderful new actors.

The movie features Maisy Stella as Elliott, a young teen who is preparing to leave home to college, and is anxious to get away from everything. When she and her friends partake in some mushrooms, Elliott is approached by Aubrey Plaza who is playing a 39-year old version of Elliott, and she begins to warn her younger self about things she should avoid.

Somehow, older Elliott is able to put her number into younger Elliott’s phone (listed as ‘My Old Ass’) and they could communicate across time, showing amazing cell service.

Maisy Stella does an amazing job leading this movie, providing us with the emotion and confusion that would go along with this, as well as bonding, in a way, with her older self. Aubrey Plaza is perfect as the older Elliott, but she just is not in the film enough. Aubrey Plaza disappears for a big chunk of time in the middle of the film and you can feel her lack of presence. Still, when she is on screen, she is electric and she has amazing chemistry with Maisy Stella.

There is a real likable character introduced to us named Chad (Percy Hynes White, from Netflix’s Wednesday) who Elliott tries to avoid, but they have amazing chemistry as well and Chad is just such a wonderful character that the crowd is rooting for him despite what the story was telling us.

I do think that this could have been more emotional and I was left wanting more when the screen went to black, but I was entertained throughout the run time of My Old Ass. I would have liked more scenes with the two Elliotts, but what we got were really great.

3.85 stars