“To harass” – the school principal doesn’t like to hear this word. Because that means that she has to do “a lot of things”. And so she downplays the matter. Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña), who complains about the intrusiveness of the football team captain Mitchell (Patrick Schwarzenegger), is new to the school, and girls her age are prone to overreacting.
Mitchell actually bullies his classmate and publishes a ranking list in which the classmates are classified from “Untouched” to “Best Butt” to “Fuckable” – the normal, sexist everyday life at high school. Friend Vivian (Hadley Robinson) also realizes that something has to happen. As an anonymous author, she designs the “Moxie” magazine, in which she accuses the sexist structures of everyday school life – and triggers a revolt.
“Moxie” – roughly translated: drive – is the long overdue me-too film for teenagers. Director Amy Poehler casually hijacks the high school genre and shoots it into a new orbit with a feminist kick. Girls are usually responsible for heartbreak, and there are wild ups and downs of emotions in “Moxie” too: But for Vivian and Co., it’s about more than amorous promises of happiness. They no longer want their leeway to be restricted by male dominance. In short: “Moxie” is a lifelike girl power film of the best kind.
“Moxie. Time to fight back “, On Netflix, directed by Amy Poehler with Hadley Robinson, Alycia Pascual-Peña, 111 minutes
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