The comparisons are inevitable, so we might as well get them out of the way: “Good Girls Get High” sounds a lot like “Booksmart” because, well, it is a lot like “Booksmart.” But if its heroines can co-exist as joint valedictorians, there’s no reason we can’t embrace a pair of like-minded comedies about brainy teens who decide to go wild before high school ends.
The movie is narrated by Sam (Abby Quinn, soon to star in the “Mad About You” revival). She’s making a video for Harvard’s admissions team, in hopes she can undo an impulsive mistake. She got accepted, but her single dad (Matt Besser, “Comedy Bang! Bang!”) is struggling just to keep his old-fashioned ice-cream shop open in the Instagram era.