Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I was bullied at a young age, and like one of the young boys in this film I fought back- after that nobody ever picked on me again. However, it doesn't always work like that. Not when the kids being bullied are often significantly smaller or weaker than those who bully them. It's like the discussion of rape that often goes on in society- we shouldn't be focusing on what the victims can do to prevent it, we should be focusing on how to change the attitudes of those who victimize others.Bully is a pretty great documentary. It's harrowing at times. Not only did I feel for the kids in this film because I myself went through much of the same and worse, it was just genuinely awful to see kids being so mean and hateful to one another. It's shocking to see how such nice kids like Alex, though strange in his own ways like many of us are, can be treated so callously and cruelly by other kids his age. Watching Alex on the bus really got to me and broke my heart.Though the most emotional moments come from the family of a very young boy who killed himself due to being bullied. It wrenches the heart to watch them try and come to terms with what happened. Then seeing school officials, police officers, who just do not get what is happening juxtaposed with the family left behind in the tragic wake of their young boy's suicide, it's absolutely appalling. My heart goes out to them and anyone else who have lost a child because of bullying.You can't paint all teachers, principals (et cetera) with the same brush, but the fact is many of them don't understand, or they refuse to give in to the idea that there are some really terrible young kids in schools who are the worst kind of bullies. Often, yes, the bullies are picking up bad habits from their own parents, but like the mother of the young boy who killed himself said- it doesn't matter who their parents are, how those parents raise the child, every child should be protected at school regardless. You can't just blame it on the parents, the schools need to be taken to task as well. One terribly frustrating moment has a boy named Cole, I believe, being questioned by his principal, who seems to think because the boy won't shake hands with his bully then he is the same as the kid victimizing him. It's shocking to see how misunderstood bullying is by some of the people supposedly put in place to protect the children and shepherd them safely through the system. They can pass the buck as much as they want, but there are many teachers, principals, school workers in any capacity, who protect the children in their schools, and everyone should be doing the same if they work in the education system.I give this a 9 out of 10 only because I feel, like some reviewers, the filmmakers could have included some more hidden camera footage to strengthen the emotional reactions, although there was certainly enough to trigger outrage and disgust. There are many more heinous acts of bullying going on that are not shown/represented in this documentary; many things you wouldn't believe kids could do to one another. I know a documentary like this is not meant to shock, but I do believe there needs to be full, open truth, and though the filmmakers did a great job at bringing the issue of bullying to light, they could really have went even harder at people by including more explicit footage. This is not a bad thing though, all the same. There were many awful things to see and hear in Bully.Highly recommended. The crackdown on bullying in schools, anywhere, everywhere, needs to continue, and we can't allow more young people to get into a place where they feel there are no options left available to them except death. For any 11-year old child to think of suicide is terrifying, heart breaking, and very, very disparaging for future youth.

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.

Really shocked at the things that I saw in the documentary. Incredible eye-opener of what is going on in these (mostly southern) schools. The documentary covers maybe 4-5 families, some with children getting bullied, some with now-deceased children who were bullied. The story unfolds lacing the stories throughout and to fruition.Not a happy movie, not really a "happy ending" to every story (some happy, others not at all).The focus of the documentary is on the kids, but there is a decent amount on the families and school administrations as well. It is here that the saddest things in the film lie. Everyone around these kids - the admins, their own parents... the way they treat these kids and the problems they face like... makes me mad. I left the movie frustrated, mad, wanting to sock some little bullies right in the throat. High score because I suppose that's the point.Loses some points for me for what I consider a weak close to the film, and it overexposed some stories at the expense of others - some of the others were interesting, I thought, but didn't get quite enough airtime.

Today kids are killing themselves and each other at an alarming rate. The one thing all these cases seem to have in common is bullying. There was bullying when I was a kid, but 3 PM meant the end of the trouble. We had the rest of the day, the weekend, and the summer to recover. The advent of social media and cell phones has made the respite obsolete, as now, bullies can torture their victims 24/7. Bully is an award winning documentary that looks at the problems of bullying and shows the effects it has on children's lives. What I like about this film is that it showed a whole group of students from different economic, social, and ethnic backgrounds. What I took away is that anyone who is even slightly different in anyway, could be a target. What I didn't like was the solutions the film offers. Their solution is to tell someone and to stand up for kids you see being bullied, but anyone who has been bullied will tell you that those are not good ideas. Often times telling someone will anger the bully and make it worse, and as for standing up for other kids, often times that makes someone who wasn't previous bullied, a target. I think the answer is two-fold, in that first, parents need to tell their kids, from a very earlier age, that being unique, different, and even weird are admirable qualities in a person. I also believe the schools need to be tougher, because honestly, does anyone really think that giving a bully detention, telling them they're not nice, and that their hurting other kids really does anything? I think bullies need a taste of their own medicine, to feel those powerful emotions for even for just one day. You can talk until you're blue in the face, but you don't really know what something is like until you've experienced it for yourself.