As the new school year start Vivian is very much intending on keeping her head low and ride out high school to the end. But the new girl Lucy raises questions about the curriculum and the schools pecking order which opens Vivian's eyes to the problems there are in their school. Inspired, Vivian anonymously creates a magazine for the girls to read addressing the problems and encouraging them to stand up against what is wrong. She soon becomes the voice of a feminist revolution and suddenly she has to deal with changing the school, being a good friend, dating a guy and her mom getting a boyfriend.
Moxie is created over the novel of same name and it shine light on some of the many problems there still are to the American school system. Some of the problems it tries to tackle are; the dress-code and how it seems to focus more on the girls outfits, excusing bullies toxic behaviour just because they are a star athlete, sexism between students, sexism between students and faculty and faculty avoiding to help students in order to avoid extra work. The movie has many good and important points it wants to raise and bring to light but generally the execution is weak and surface level. There is no real struggle and the point of no return is right at the end of the movie. I do not know if it is the movie failing to get deep and dirty in the story or if the novel itself only did surface level work. But when my personal critique has been said I still think it is a fine movie worth watching and having a talk about. It could definitely be used with educational purpose in order to have a healthy discussion with teenagers and their behaviour.
When I first saw the trailer I had hoped it could be a new cult classic to rival Mean Girls but no. It can still be an important cult classic just at another level and for the other reasons. I will give Moxie two and a half stars and hope to be proved wrong. Maybe the movie will grow on me later but for now this is my score.
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