Amy Poehler's teen zine comedy Moxie radiates riot grrrl energy in first trailer
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Amy Poehler directs and co-stars in Netflix’s Moxie, playing a suburban mom whose rebellious past inspires her daughter to subvert the bro-forward culture at her high school. Today, the streamer shared the rowdy first trailer for the feminist teen comedy.
Hadley Robinson, Alycia Pascual-Peña, and Josie Totah lead a fresh-faced cast of nascent rabble-rousers who start a zine to “expose bias and wrongdoing” in a school where the administration has shown little interest in curbing the culture of harassment. Yep, the “cancel culture” crowd is gonna hate this one.
Check out the trailer below:
Ike Barinholtz, Marcia Gay Harden, and Patrick Schwarzenegger round out the cast of the film, which storms onto Netflix on March 3.
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Looks pretty good. A bit cliche in parts but I’m all for this. I’m hoping I can watch with my oldest daughter (nothing too inappropriate) and it encourages her to stand up for herself more.
Looks cute. I had a weird thought watching it the trailer that it feels like the opposite of Mean Girls in some ways. I guess ultimately Mean Girls was about young women figuring out how to be cool and supportive with one another, but the whole thing was ripping each other apart the whole time till they reached that conclusion.
I really need to get me some of those “You are an asshole!” stickers, then place them all over the office before we are forced to return after the pandemic.
Honest question from an old man. Are their really High Schools were people vote for best ass, best rack and best lay? I feel like this is a thing you see in movies but I can’t believe it really happens. Like who would vote? Like wouldn’t most of the people in school not give a fuck. Like I could see maybe a small group in highschool doing it, like the Football team or something but like a school wide vote that people care or talk about just seems implausible. That being said, this looks like a lot of fun.
This never happened in mine, it was just an unspoken thing – if you had eyeballs you knew who the hottest people in school were, you didn’t have to say it or create some kind of ranked list. However, our school yearbook did have a “Most Popular” and “Most Shy” category, which is about as close at it got to this.
I got voted “Most Likely to Take Over the Universe.” I was that kid.
I got the sense from the trailer that it was more of an unofficial thing that all the kids knew about rather than an actual contest supported by the school.
In the book, at least, it’s just a thing that the jerk boys do for fun, not any kind of school-sanctioned election.
During my high school years (around 2002-2006), we really didn’t have anything like this either. Social media wasn’t nearly as influential as it was now (Facebook was still what the teens were into), but even then no one acted like this.I don’t know if it was due to the upper-middle class, suburban setting or the fact that my class was primarily filled with students in years-long relationships, but there was never really this level of teens hooking up with one another. Obviously as a guy I wouldn’t be privy to everything happening, but even my younger sister has mentioned how it was the other girls who were the worst part of her high school experience.
Not to mention, the students are all played by actors in their 20s, since real teenagers are disgusting.
Naw, those things just show up as obscure phrases in yearbook comments (remember Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Renate Alumnus’?)
High schools?Try Harvard.
no this is nonsense
When I was a senior (2001), we voted on superlatives for things like “Best Eyes” “Most Likely to Succeed” etc. It was organized by the student government, but probably sanctioned by the actual school administration. Nothing as ribald as “Best Lay.”The meanest one I recall was “Worst Couple,” which my best friend “won” with his girlfriend that everyone hated. He begged the presenters to not announce that one, which they obliged. Perhaps times have changed.
Amy Poehler went to high school in the 80s-90s, where it may still have been a thing. But it was on the outs even then. Faux-rage.
Yearbook superlatives didn’t exist in my school, I think they were an American thing?Regardless, I graduated in 2001. And I can’t remember the name but there was a website (not a school one, people from lots of schools used it) where (and my memories are REALLY vague here) there would be a different forum for each school in the city (think Rate My Professor) where students could rate teachers and stuff, except anyone could create a new category. And there were a few like “best smile in grade 9″ or whatever. I don’t remember anything cruel or sexual, but this was a long time ago. And I don’t remember how I heard about the website but it wasn’t like everyone was using it or obsessively checked it or anything. Most of the threads didn’t have that many comments. Does anyone else know what I’m talking about?Anyway, my point is I’m sure assholes will rank students like that, either privately or with the intent to humiliate but it never gets outside the immediate circle because who else cares?
Senior soliloquies Are an actual thing that people vote on and go into yearbooks…I got best hair (for a girl)… I did not deserve the honor honestly
Yeah, the setup for this seems really unlikely. Like, Strawman: The Movie.
Those young women sure have a lotta moxie.
I had no idea this was being made into a movie. The book is genuinely terrific. I’m really excited to see how they handle the arc of the main character’s sidekick, who starts out as an “I’m all for women’s rights, but don’t feminists hate men?” type. It’s a really thoughful handling of a young woman’s realization that she is, in fact, a feminist. I hope they capture that.
Awww, I was hoping it’d be about the official sofa drink of Maine. 🙁
WHEN I WAS SIXTEEN ALL I CARED ABOUT WAS SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY AND BURNING IT ALL DOWNalso pokemon
I could sense the drums from Rebel Girl a moment before they happened. Hoping Kathleen Hanna gets a cameo.
Aw that’s my high school they filmed at. That brings back memories. And also terrifies me that it was so long ago.
It looks good. And I love to see schools held to account for perpetuating these kinds of shitty environments. It always seems funny to me that while we want girls to stand up for themselves, to know how to say, “no,” and feel comfortable doing it, we still expect them to never say no to the nonsense rules and various wastes of time that make up so much of school work. The only way to truly be successful in school is to comply. Given that consent is utterly absent in conventional school culture, it makes sense that toxic environments thrive in them.
Ok I like the idea but it seems like a perpetual middle aged fantasy that teenagers will be in love with their mothers’ music, aesthetic tastes, and way of expressing themselves. I’m sure kids would start a zine and talk about how great and feminist and cool their mothers were. How they wish they lived in the enlightened time of their parents’ era.
I dunno, I seem to recall my mom liking the garage rock I liked in the 2000s quite a bit (since it sounded a lot like the college rock she liked in the 80s), and plenty of the kids I teach now like their parents’ music too. Given A: how fractured popular culture is now, B: how omnivorous kids’ tastes are more recently, and C: how much pop culture these days banks on all sorts of nostalgia, It wouldn’t surprise me if this were becoming increasingly common. Hell, Mr Brightside by the Killers has never really *stopped* being popular across demographics on different streaming services.
In their defense, moms are pretty great. Yours seeing anyone? No reason.
My mom actually influenced a lot of the music and movies I listen to. She showed me old horror films, which is favorite genre now that I’m an adult. I still listen to cast recording of musicals she loved and I didn’t know who Spoon or Nickel Creek was until my mom said, hey check out this cool shit. Looking back I’ve always been A LOT like her.
So, I’m much older than most of you, graduated High School in 1972. We didn’t do anything like that but in college a few of us got the hair brained idea to set up rating girls at the cafeteria with numbers assigned to hotness (kinda like dancing with the stars). We thought we were hysterical, we were not! I don’t thing I got a date from any of those girls all year. I had to go across campus. Geeze what an idiot I was. This movie might not be as dumb as you think.
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