Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Diagonaldi Very well executed

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

gregking4 This warm, quirky and yet oddly endearing drama is another low-budget independent American coming of age tale that details the hardships of life in a small town high school. Terri (Jason Wysocki) is a morbidly obese, socially awkward and shy teenager who is a misfit at school. He lives with his uncle (The Office's Creed Bratton) who is suffering from early onset of dementia. Terri is always late to school and often turns up in his pyjamas. But when the school principal Mr Fitzgerald (John C Reilly) takes an interest in him, Terri's lonely and miserable life undergoes something of a change. When he reluctantly opens up he finds a couple of new friends in the beautiful but troubled Heather (Olivia Crocicchia) and the weird and troubled Chad (Bridger Zadina), who is another of Fitzgerald's special "projects". The film has a painful ring of truth to it, and director Azazel Jacobs (whose previous film Mamma's Man explored similar uncomfortable territory) maintains a low key and unsentimental approach to the material. Co-written by Jacobs and Patrick Dewitt Terri also has a semi-autobiographical feel to it, and should resonate strongly with a certain audience. The performances of the young, unknown cast are solid. In Particular, newcomer Wysocki is outstanding, and brings an honesty, vulnerability and sensitivity to his performance. Reilly also brings some welcome touches of humour to his role as the clueless but well meaning principal who is trying to prevent certain kids from falling through the cracks in a system that can't really cope with the disengaged and disconnected. The scenes that the always reliable Reilly and Wysocki share are amongst the best in the film.

Jim Chevallier The misfit in high school is a tried and true indie genre (were ANY indie filmmakers well-adjusted jocks in high school?). So one approaches yet another example of the breed with some weariness, expecting certain marks to be hit, especially when the protagonist is, as here, hugely overweight. And indeed he is unpopular with his phys ed teacher and gets more than one comment about his breasts. But all manner of subtle variations make this one unique from the start, starting with his mixed relationship with his uncle (a surprisingly touching turn by "The Office"'s Creed Bratton), whose condition - Alzheimer's? - makes him sometimes the one needing care, but whose age and fundamental compassion also make him the caretaker (in the never explained absence of Terri's parents). Perhaps because of this ambivalent situation, Terri has a strong sense of self which takes him from the start out of victim territory, prompting him, for instance, to defiantly wear pajamas to school. His relationship with John C. Reilly's assistant principal character is similarly ambivalent, since as a mentor the latter is both empowering and disappointing. The two other students who become his friends are similarly displaced yet defiant and the film is rich in both vulnerability and self-assertion. The quiet intrigues of the film are not the stuff of stirring plot, but do show Terri and his friends in their own messy, determined way becoming themselves in a way that is, almost unobtrusively, optimistic and uplifting.

Steve Pulaski Jacob Wysocki is the Michael Cera of misfits playing the title character in Terri, who is a young outcast in high school because of his weight and his dress. He wears pajamas "because they're comfortable," rarely socializes, and frequently skips class. Something about his character makes him effortlessly likable and it's not because we feel sorry for him throughout most of the film.What makes Terri likable is his silent charm. His ability to speak softly despite the frustration that must be building up inside of him. He's a great protagonist, and it's not a problem that the story moves slowly because we take time to focus on an interesting character. This doesn't become a character study as much as it becomes a character fascination.After one too many tardies, Terri is sent to the principal's office. The principal is played questionably by John C. Reilly who is Mr. Fitzgerald who tries to form a friendship with Terri when it is clear he doesn't want one. They wind up becoming close acquaintances with a mutual fondness for each other. This isn't a contrived story of older man befriends misfit. This is the story of two world colliding to try and work out a problem. The result works, for the most part.One day in his home economics class, Terri sees his crush, term used loosely, being sexually violated by a classmate after obtaining consent. Terri is baffled by the situation, but then forms another mutual bond with the girl. The girl's name is Heather (Crocicchia), a beautiful girl not housing a terrible life, just unfortunate circumstances.Terri isn't out to form a typical romance story between two people of the same breed or to make the principal a motivational character in the boy's life. It's out to show the harsh reality and the hardships of being a teenager. This may seem like something that has been done a countless number of times, but rarely has a writer given characters like these a lengthy runtime and actually not force events on them. Writer Patrick DeWitt doesn't follow plot-point with plot-point, he lets the characters develop and find themselves at their own pace. Like real human-beings. No way can we see the full picture in a hundred and five minutes. Terri shows us that.My real gripe or quibble with Terri is its awkwardness. It is done purposely to create more of a sincere effect, but rarely do the characters say more than three lines at a time. There is a lot of dead air in the film and that can get frustrating. This resorts back to the "letting the characters develop at their own pace" aspect of the film. The characters are allowed to develop, but should also be allowed to say more involving dialog. I was hoping for not a parable, but just a few characters saying what's on their mind.I'd also like to mention that this greatly reminds me of a 1995 film I fell in love with a few months ago. The film is Angus and that and Terri have some grand similarities. Angus is a chubby outcast, as is Terri, both have social problems in school, and both live with people other than their biological parents. I liked Angus because of its spunk, its emotional effect it stamped on me, and the vibrant characters that I couldn't help but cheer for at the end. Terri lacks an emotional payoff. Not to mention, it's kind of odd how Angus was met with lukewarm reception in 1995, but now, sixteen years later, we get a film that has a resemblance to that and it's critically praised.Still, this is one of the better, more poignant coming of age tales I've seen in a while. I think the last one that truly moved me was Rob Reiner's Flipped. Terri is missing only three things that don't truly destroy a coming of age movie; an emotional payoff, a better ending, and a constant awkwardness. I can't lie that I fell in love with the characters, but I can say I wanted more out of them. 2011 has been a year of a lot of things. Between this and Young Adult it truly is also a year of abrupt endings.Starring: Jacob Wysocki, John C. Reilly, and Olivia Crocicchia . Directed by: Azazel Jacobs.

uhchilly Like other reviewers here I found the characters very poorly written, each one beginning and ending as an non-evolving caricature. The main character is someone who is seems content with his life as it is and has settled in to the role of caregiver to his uncle and apathetically likable outcast in his school.The films approach seems to be one of turning Terri's life experiences into utter banality in order to cope with the weight of their drama.Every character, especially Terri, has a shoulder-shrugged look at everything that goes on in the film. It's as though everyone is interacting with each other as though they have been desensitized to the point where even the most obnoxious behaviour is carried out with the the vigour of a sloth crawling along a tree branch to get to a leaf. That is this films ENORMOUS problem: in the end everything that occurs is treated with such a dull, tedious, and bored outlook that even the message of acceptance of who you are becomes a resignation more than a inspiration. Watching the last half of this movie was one of the most excruciating exercises in misplaced hopefulness I have ever experienced.