Amy Poehler’s directorial effort is not on the ground

Amy Poehler would like to rethink the whole direction.

Needless to say that the actress, on-screen is a comedy powerhouse, and has also made waves as a prolific producer of television. Poehler, who co-hosted the “Golden Globe Awards” for the third time on Sunday, has evolved into the Hollywood Jill of all trades. . . Except one, that is.

“Moxie” is the second feature film for which she sits in the director’s chair, following the unfortunate 2019 misfire “Wine Country”, and she still can’t tell a compelling story.

Young-adult feminist comedy without good jokes, a disappointingly blossoming, “Moxie” is a hockey-based 90s family sitcom and a much better teen film like “Lady Bird”. Visually, the film is not as simple as it is routine. Emotionally, it is catatonic. Poehler’s film lacks – please forgive me – Moxie.

The spunky title comes from a fictional underground feminist magazine created by a high-school outcast named Vivian (Hadley Robinson), who is inspired by the youthful activism of her mother Lisa (Poehler). How do we know that he is inspired?

“Thanks for inspiring me,” Vivian tells Lisa as if she’s talking a H allmark card.

Acquired from A young-adult novel By the same name of Jennifer Mathew, the dialogues of the film are being liked by all. When Vivian finally falls in love with the rare person who is good for her, Seth (Nico Hirag), he says, “Back in the kindergarten, you always wanted to take the spiders out when everyone wanted to break them . ”

always? What kind of run-down, arachnid-infeed school was it?

Although no one knows that Vivian founded the red-hot moxie, which encourages violent acts of protest such as wearing a tank top, he becomes more confident and outgoing in his personal life. He starts making new friends.

One named Kiera (Sydney Park) competes against the football team’s popular quarterback, Mitchell (Patrick Schwarzenegger), to win a scholarship called the Student Athlete Award. The person with the most votes gets it, which seems like a strange way to pay someone for an education.

Mitchell, anyway, is cartoonist brutal, like Biff from “Back to the Future”, without fun or originality. On the flip side are Seth, who is so impenetrable and sensitive, he may well be a reborn Korgi.

However, this film is not right to identify these young actors. There is talent here. The group is good to see, and their understanding of the characters, as they are, is thorough. Vivian Robinson has the biggest film role of all time, and is relaxed and ravishing, though Poehler’s Lisa has little connection with him.

Honestly, I’d rather see Poehler in “Baby Momma 2″ taking care of the wind and the stars. ”