Where “Mean Girls” used dead-on satire to poke holes in high-school social hierarchy, “Moxie,” though it has comic elements, is a more serious film. Poehler also plays a mom in “Moxie,” but the comparisons end there. It’s tempting to want to look at “Moxie,” Amy Poehler’s film about a teenage girl whose burgeoning activism changes life at her high school, as a kind of companion piece to “Mean Girls.”Īfter all, that was a film about the inner-workings of how high school drama operates, especially for girls. And Poehler played a key role in “Mean Girls,” that of Regina George’s mother (“I’m not like a regular mom, I’m a cool mom”).
