Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

room102 A documentary about bullying in school. It deals with some very delicate issues. Some stuff simply makes you want to punch those bullies, or the teachers/officers/principal who let this happen - they can easily stop the bullying (by punishing them), but instead they do nothing.The film shows you how far the results can go - up the the point of little kids killings themselves. At one point I told myself that someone like that, who is being bulled for years, can crack and commit a mass murder - and then will be seen as a monster (actually, a similar case like that is discussed in the film).I have no idea how the filmmaker managed to get some of his footage - it doesn't look like a candid camera, so maybe the bullies simply don't care being filmed bullying? Amazing.The cinematography is pretty annoying - the filmmaker used a very short length of field and the image is constantly getting in and out of focus. But that's a technical issue.I highly recommend watching this important documentary.

Lanina Smith I think that the documentary was quite powerful, in my own opinion. The documentary didn't try to romanticize the idea of bullying or suicide but touched on the reality of it. The idea that school really cannot do anything is rather false and you can see that in this documentary. Also, they show the parents and how they cope as well. They follow a child and watch his daily routine as he gets bullied and tormented daily and how they take care of situations like that. They also show public meetings which were quite informative and helpful to see what the community thought as a whole instead of just the general people as themselves. I believe this documentary was made to help teach kids not to bully, and to show what it does to others, and how to guide kids who are being bullied to stand up and tell someone, because many societies and schools today are unsafe from this type of deal. Some teachers and children have yet to recognize it. I enjoyed this documentary for its informative reasons but the entire thing made me unhappy as a person to see this happening to children so young and that no one would do anything about it until someones life is at stake.

victoria Wilburn (victoria-wilburn) Bully Film Review Bully was a good film because it really showed how much bullying affects children everywhere. This movie showed different people all across America; they all dealt with being bullied. The director really wanted people to see and understand that bullying happens everywhere and some of the teachers just don't care or sometimes they don't believe the student when they tell them.In the beginning of the movie they started with a boy named Tyler, he had been bullied to the point where he took his own life. Then they started following Alex, they showed how he was being bullied everywhere at school. Alex never told his parents or even teachers at his school because he thought they wouldn't care or believe him. When Alex's parents would ask him how his day was he would give them a short answer and try to walk away. His mom usually had to force him to tell her that he was being bullied that day. Later they introduced Jameya a fourteen year old girl from Mississippi. She would be bullied everyday on the bus going home from school. One day she stood up and started threatening everyone on the bus. She was sent to jail and had to await trial.In Oklahoma they introduced Kelby, she was lesbian and everyone in her town turned on her. Of course her family stuck by her side the whole time and tried to help her deal with it. At one point a few people from her school decided they were going to run her over with a van. Even her teachers at school "made fun" of Kelby. At the end of the school year her family decided they were going to move so that Kelby could have a decent year in high school.Bully showed how the world can be good and bad. Most of the people in Bully overcame it and tried to make a difference and help fight bullying. Also with the parents that lost their children because they were being bullied.

MacTheMovieguy I remember watching The Cove and being transported from a world where you didn't really care about the topic, to a world where you could stand up and fight for the cause. For me, Bully doesn't hold the same fire and passion for its topic like The Cove, and wouldn't motivate you to stand up and fight. Bully has a noble cause, definitely, tracking the story of a few youths who find themselves in terrible circumstances. Notably, is the story of Tyler, who is really the catalyst for this movement, as he committed suicide after he couldn't take being bullied any longer. The kids in the film are all weak, and need a voice, and director Lee Hirsch believes he is that voice.Bully is mostly told through spoken conversation, and not through the violent images of kids actually being bullied. As terrible as it might be for me to say this, the film lacks the punch of watching one of these kids actually being beat up. Every confrontation seems more like the start of something bigger. There are fights posted on youtube all the time, and yet Lee Hirsch couldn't grab any of his kids being pummeled into the ground. That kind of footage could have been gamechanging. Instead, it's all crying, and feeling sorry for kids, and heeding warnings. It seems to just continue to go around in circles as all the kids stories are relatively similar. It might have been nice to talk to a bully and find out what's going on in their life. I've always heard that often times bullies are getting bullied at home, which could have been a nice parallel.Bully feels more like the documentary that could have been. It's a blueprint for something bigger. Considering all the hype that Bully had, around the unrated version, etc., it turns out it was all for nothing. Except ticket sales. 3.6 million.