Cyberbully (2011)

Best movie ever!

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Overall, the plot of this movie is incoherent, mainly because everything changes after the main character attempts suicide. Before the suicide attempt, the mother is absent, weak, distant, her daughter is naive, most characters are shallow and we have no idea of what they think, or what their motivations are. This part is really boring. After the suicide attempt, the mother becomes some sort of political super-hero and vigilante for good against evil, the daughter magically becomes strong and discovers how things work, the motivation behind the behavior of most characters becomes crystal clear, and finally all problems are solved in a totally unrealistic way (the scene of the improvised coalition of victims of bullies). I fully understand that the intentions of the producers of this TV movie were good. They really wanted to tell a caution tale to both kids and parents against the perils of cyber-bullying. But they forgot that spectators do not accept inconstancies in a script. This movie is unrealistic, but it looks like it was on purpose, because the goal is to provide some optimism about a difficult subject and some practical tips for victims, families, and witnesses of (cyber-)bullying.

"I can't get the cap off."-Taylor Hillridge 2011.The film is god awful,the fake websites are flawed at best. the message is it's the internet's fault for cyber-bullying when really it should that cyberbullies don't matter in the end.Not to mention the main character is unlikable and as dull as a brick for example shes in her teens and can't remove the CHILD-PROOF cup on a pill bottle when trying to kill herself and ends up scattering the pill on the floor. but i will give it this its rather unintentionally funny if you leave your brain on. all and all a bad movie but is comedic gold.

Though my own teen years were over with before the internet (and cell phones) became so widespread, I was deeply saddened by the Phoebe Prince "bully-cide" case of 2010; I then heard about CYBERBULLY (apparently inspired not by the Prince but by the equally tragic Megan Meier case) and decided to watch it. I found the film quite suspenseful, affecting and, above all, informative; it made me understand why the common advice to "cyberbullied" teens -- "Just turn off your computer!" -- is really not all that practical. CYBERBULLY is well written, filmed, and edited; the acting, though occasionally wooden, is a cut above what I would have expected from a "Lifetime" movie (and let's face it -- even such a classic "after-school special" as 1981's THE WAVE contains some wooden acting). The talented Emily Osment was both persuasive and likable as pretty-but-not-quite-popular Taylor Hillridge; she had me on her side. As for the much-mocked scene in which Taylor's not being able to open a bottle of pills foils her suicide attempt -- the scene actually is believable if you consider that the bottle cap may have stuck (which has happened to me more than once, and I'm in my thirties!); or that Taylor, evidently in a panicked state, was probably shaking hard; or that she might subconsciously have been TRYING to stall so that someone would save her in the nick of time. Regardless, CYBERBULLY is a well-done after-school special which taught me things I had not understood before about the online world of today's teenagers.

The guy from YourMovieSucksDotOrg said it best "this movie gets a dumb out of ten". Out of all the terrible TV movies out there, this is the funniest. Also, anyone who calls Cyberbully's haters "dumb morons who support bullying" are the real idiots in this situation. Anyway, the acting is terrible, the drama is impossible to take seriously, and the script is absolutely atrocious. The writers clearly ignored the first rule of screen writing: show, don't tell. The main character is so stupid that whenever she's sad, I laugh. There are moments in this movie so hilariously awful, that I won't dare ruin them here. I only recommend this "film" to anyone who likes melodramatic schlock.