I really enjoyed the movie My Old Ass that we recently caught on Prime. I love a quirky time travel movie.

The movie features Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza, and Percy Hynes White. Maddie Ziegler and Kerrice Brooks also star. It was a solid little cast, and I think everyone did a great job.

The story follows a young woman named Elliot (Stella) who is about to celebrate her 18th birthday with plans to move to Toronto to begin her adult life. A night of eating mushrooms leads her to a meeting and conversation with her older self (Plaza). Her big warnings to her younger self were to spend more time with her family and avoid a guy named Chad who she immediately meets. Hijinks ensue.

The movie depicts the indecisiveness and flexibility of early adulthood very well.

Everybody likes to think that they have always been sure about things they want to do and who they want to be when they’re about to graduate high school to take on the world. Elliot sure does. Then, the conversations with her older self makes her question get life plans.

She realizes that maybe she is bisexual and not the lesbian that she thought she was. Her dorky, golf playing brother Max isn’t so bad after all, and she actually likes handing out with him! And her youngest brother Spencer… Well, his obsession with actress Saoirse Ronan is still a but weird.

Having flexible, big life plans as a young person is perfect, because life happens fast.

The forbidden love story was fun.

I did enjoy the “will they/won’t they” elements with Elliot and Chad after her future herself warned her about having a relationship with him. It feels like everyone assumed that she was warning herself to not date him because either he was going to be a bad person OR most likely (and correct) he died.

With all of that said, there was just something missing for me at the end. Was it the fact that we didn’t get to see how miserable older Elliot (Plaza’s) life had been without Chad in it? Maybe that’s it? I still liked it and felt the emotional tug, but I just wasn’t able to get all the way in.

The timey-wimey shenanigans were fun.

I don’t need a full explanation for how time travel works for fun little movies like this, and I’m so glad they didn’t even try. How does it work? Sometimes when you’re really high, but who knows other than that?

And that’s great! That’s all this movie needed.