Now they are all grown up and living in New York City, where Chloe is a "rising star" dancing in a glass box at a nightclub, and Kate is the "CEO" of her own one-woman egg-donor "corporation."

On the road, they face some hard truths about themselves and each other as they encounter drug addicts, spring breakers, strip club hooligans, a feminist farming collective, and their favorite reality TV star, leading to the girls' homecoming and final reckoning with their past, present, and future.

The website's critics' consensus reads: "June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson are sharp comedic performers, but their co-written script gives them little to work with in this meandering farce.

"[5] Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times stated: "The scenarios in 'Ass Backwards', which director Chris Nelson contributed to by filming in focus, feel arbitrary rather than organic, as if the creators' list of humor targets—lesbian bikers, trailer trash, drug-addicted reality TV stars, pageant world denizens—were picked out of a hat.

"[7] On the other hand, Chris Packham of The Village Voice wrote: "The episodic story and minimal budget result in a small canvas over which these two huge characters dominate.

Club gave the film a B rating: "Ass Backwards overcomes the obvious beats with clever, occasionally dark jokes that reveal the sharpness of its stars' writing."

They go big and physical with Ass Backwards, dressing their alter egos in over the top costumes (or 'high fashion', as it's known in New York) and letting loose in a way that recalls the early days of Jim Carrey.