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It seems that ABC Family has debuted a new film about cyberbullying in social networks. Unfortunately, though, it seems it was conceived by someone who knows absolutely nothing about cyberbullying in social networks. Even though some valuable points are made, "Cyberbully" is strictly for entertainment. The movie might actually be brilliant as a black comedy - note the moment Taylor Hillridge tells her best friend that she "can't get the cap off," which is almost undoubtedly bound to be remembered as a staple in television comedy. In fact, at points, the film is so ridiculous that it nearly seemed to have been made as a black comedy.

"Cyberbully" also has amateurish cinematography (half of its shots appearing to have been taken from some serialized drama) and a plain script with wooden dialogue, even though the acting performance of Emily Osment is worthy of praise. The portrayal of cyber-bullying is highly unrealistic; the main character signs up for a website that apparently doesn't allow you to even delete posted comments. When she should just delete her account, "it's too late" is used as an excuse. When she should just block the profile of anybody she doesn't like, the website seems not to have a blocking option. This is completely inaccurate, as most social networking websites will let you delete comments, block profiles of people, and report spam comments.

"Cyberbully" has convincing acting and entertainment, as well as good messages, but is unrealistic and sometimes even unintentionally humorous at times; both far overshadow any redeeming qualities you will be able to find.

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.

Honestly - I didn't go into this with very high expectations. I went into Cyberbully thinking to myself "Oh look - an ABC family movie about the internet. No doubt its going to be badly acted, badly written, hilariously misinformed with planned adverts every four or five minutes to hammer home the point of internet security and bullying, and, no doubt, it being an ABC family drama, after all, it will have no relevance to real life, it will shoehorn in seemingly random issues such as sexuality, and, perhaps most importantly for the demographic, it will, at no point, have any black people. At all. Ever." But what I saw truly changed me. I never realised how hard upper-middle-class white girls had it before this movie, and that plight, that emotional typhoon of internet-related insecurities just hit me where it hurts. It also reminded me of the importance of safety caps on pill bottles, because its not just children who are fooled by them - but adults and teenagers too. And it introduced me to what is, perhaps, the greatest televised event ever conceived, although conceived is perhaps the wrong word....realised. The greatest television event ever realised - the Gay Boy Show. Anyway - in conclusion, this movie has got to be one of the most incredibly watchable movies released this year, and it will warm you from your balls to your solar plexus with its message and its subtle delivery of said message. Watch this film.

As many fellow IMDb users have said, this film shows cyberbullying in a completely unrealistic and over-exaggerated way. The entire concept of the movie is laughable. The acting is dreadful. It fits into almost every modern cliché.

Only reason this monstrosity doesn't get a 1 is due to its reasonable moral that it attempts to teach, and it has apparently done its job to some extent.

Overall, there are much better films that successfully grasp the concept of online bullying. If your intent is to teach others or learn yourself about the consequences of cyberbullying through film, look elsewhere immediately. If you want a good movie to laugh at, this is a good choice.

Taylor's story also happened to me, my facebook was hacked, i was bullied and i ended up doing exactly the same as she did. This film shows the consequences of not only cyberbullying but bulling in general - it shows the effects that it has on not only the victim but their family and people that they are around too. I found this film difficult to watch as it brought back too many memories but i was completely hooked! although there was slightly different circumstances (i/e the things the people were saying about Taylor), this film tugged on my heartstrings so much that i decided that (after 3 years) it was time to talk about what happened to me. not only that but i was able to make my partner watch the film so that he understood abit more too and it was like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders. It might not appeal to people who haven't been in the same boat but if you have - i would certainly suggest you watch it!!

While I would agree with some other people's comments that the girl being bullied would likely be popular in real life, the movie as a whole makes a very important point, cyberbullying is a legitimate problem. Technology has made it easier to bully and no matter how hard we try to protect our kids there is no escape from it as the movie points out. It also makes the strong point that many people don't realize there is no such thing as absolute free speech (and there shouldn't be). Words that involve defamation and libel invade one's rights to privacy and this movie points this out effectively. If nothing else it challenges parents to do more and realize kids (and even some adults) are struggling with many emotional issues due to this cowardly form of bullying. It also though not naming any sites should remind us that many kids are attracted to sites like Facebook and those types of sites should do more to stop cyberbullying. It should also remind us there are other sites such as Topix that do not absolutely nothing to curb the problem of cyberbullying and that is a real problem.

By referring to this movie as a film, you are insulting filmmakers and any movie with any effort put into it whatsoever. This movie has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever, as it consists of abysmal acting, poor directing, and in my opinion, the worst drama script I have ever read in my entire life. Every single last person involved in this project should be ashamed of their involvement in this and perhaps their existence altogether. This is one of the worst movie experiences ever, and possibly one of the worst experiences ever. It's that bad. To describe this movie in a sentence: It's like an alien came down from space and had five days to make a movie about what a human teenage life is like. Looking back, it's hard to think of a single line that had any substance to it or any realism. Every single last character is cliché and reacts in ways that no human being should. Usually, a movie has a few drawbacks, such as a poor performance by a single actor or a single plot-hole, but literally every single thing about this movie is bad, and I have never said this about any movie ever before. It's just mindless blabbering, stirring up petty melodrama, hoping for someone to watch it with no frame of reference to any human conversation ever. The only acceptable thing about this abomination is that the leading actress's performance is passable, which is perhaps a miracle, considering the lines she was given might as well have been written by a retarded fish. That is honestly the nicest thing I can say about this movie. The only chance there is of me recommending someone else to rent this is so that I can tell them to throw that copy of the film into a furnace and destroy it. You can find a better movie anywhere else on the planet. You can combine all of Uwe Boll's deleted scenes from all of his movies, and it would probably make more sense than 'Cyberbully'. Never before have I seen a movie so horrible in every way. The only movie I can think of that comes close to being as bad as this is 'Disaster Movie', but that's because it tries to be bad. I recommend you go your entire life without watching 'Cyberbully', and you should also warn your friends and neighbors against it as well.

Cyberbully is so dumb, I can't put it into words. The production, direction, sound editing, cinematography and soundtrack were horrid. Even its message, the one thing you'd expect them to get right, was terrible. I read some reviews of people going "Oh the message is so amazing! Give these people an Oscar!" I even read someone saying that it shouldn't be entertaining, it should be informative. Really? I'm not saying a movie can't be informative, but it has to be entertaining. If there's nothing entertaining, I won't watch it. If I wanted to be informed about cuber bullying I would read an article about it.

Now that the elephant in the room is out of the way its time or the movie's problems. First, and I feel like it's pretty important, the sound editing was horrible. I felt like every time someone was talking, there was equally loud background noise or music. Oh the music! Every track was horrible. Sound editing wise, Every sound made my ears puke.

The acting was pretty terrible. Nothing really to add. The dialog was also bad. It made the characters very unreleasable. Every time they talked I just thought "SHUT UP!". I'll give an example. There is a scene in the classroom where the main character (I don't remember her name so I'll call her "Pants") is talking to another person who is being cyberbullied for being gay. Their classmates call him insults such as "fag". And Pants' reply is "Yeah, but you're actually gay, what they're saying about me isn't true." THAT is the person you're supposed to feel sympathy for, someone who can't feel sympathy for a fellow classmate who is also hurting. She is extremely bitchy and over privileged and so are her friends. There are other examples, but I have bigger fish to fry.

The message is also ridiculous. I'm not saying that a girl like her can't be bullied, but she is so stupid. Throughout the film, Pants had multiple opportunities to block the people who write crap about her or delete their comments. But she never did. And even stupidly enough, it turns out that she didn't know she could do this, because when another cyberbullying victim told her to block them she said she never even thought of that and she sounded extremely surprised. I nearly burst out laughing. How did she not know this? its common knowledge to even an internet rookie. It's as dumb as deleting system32.

And when she decided to kill herself, It was absolutely stupid. Long story short, she watches what might be the dumbest video ever made, that no real person would take seriously, she takes it seriously, makes a video saying she'll kill herself, uploads it, does nothing for a very long time, and finally decides to kill herself. And then we have what might be the best scene ever. We are given a long build up watching Pants' friend and her mother (Pants Senior?) rushing to her house. We expect Pants either dying, or already dead, but instead we see her desperately trying to open a bottle of pills and yells "I CAN'T GET THE CAP OFF!". I laugh intensely. She and her friend struggle and all the pills get scattered on the floor and Pants does nothing to try to pick up the pills. Instead she just cries and mumbles gibberish.

Anyways, those were the worst parts of this work of fart. There's plenty more but I figured I shouldn't bore you with details.

I'm only writing this review because the lack of compassion of some of these reviewers baffles me.

They didn't make this film about a 16 year old, they made it about a 13 year old! I watched this and found it unrealistic too if I compare it to the way I and a lot of my friends were at this age. People are all different, though, and, believe it or not, there are people out there that would easily have crumbled the same way the main character did, under similar circumstances, at age 13. Anyone who deems this 'unrealistic' simply lacks understanding of people. For us Brits, this film is undeniably going to be a source of black comedy: 'I couldn't get the cap off'. Have we forgotten, though, even black comedy has a very real message?

Whether the film is unrealistic or not is debatable, but why are so many people missing the point here? The purpose of this film was not to entertain but to inform, make aware, and share a story. Yes, the acting could be better, but it wasn't that bad, and the script is quite good, baring in mind it's younger audience. The message is delivered well, and this is a gem amongst the usual crap spewed out by abc and its parent company Disney.

This is one film every teenager with access to the internet should watch.

****************************************************************** I was looking for a movie to put on as background noise when this popped up. I turned up the volume expecting a cheesy, over-acted, watered down movie with very little knowledge of how high schools actually function.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that my expectations were wrong.

This movie really hit home with me for a few reasons. A dear friend of mine was bullied for years to the point where she became so depressed she considered suicide. Emily Osment's character, I felt, perfectly reflected the emotions such a victim has to deal with. You have to remember that for adolescents, such as the characters shown in the film, their social life is literally their entire life. Osment's character very accurately shows the struggles most young teenagers go through of trying to play it cool and ignore their adversaries, all the while hurting and desperately wanting to be liked. Anyone who says this is overacted has not been around melodramatic, young teenage girls lately.

I've seen from the reviews that some people are questioning the plot, particularly why she didn't just shut down her profile. Obviously these critics are not from the texting generation. The film accurately portrays how social media sites quickly become a teenager's life, and how there is a literal panic at the thought of being separated from such means of communication with friends, especially those of the opposite sex. You feel Osment's anxiety over trying to win the heart of her crush and keep this means of communication open with him, even whole exposing herself to harassment. It so accurately captures the cocky attitude teenagers have of thinking they can handle tough situations, all the while slowly breaking down.

The movie was even accurate down to the attitude of the school towards bullying, and how in many schools today, the "no bullying policy" does little, if nothing, to help students.

I did find the ending to be unrealistic and cliché (let's face it- no cafeteria speeches like that actually occur in schools), but Osment's acting during the beginning and middle of the movie is brilliant enough to nearly make up for it.

Overall, give this movie a go. It may not be award-worthy, but it was powerful enough to bring back strong emotions from high school and give a sad reminder of how the youth today struggle to deal with such horrible things.

Oh, and one last thing- for those of you who said she was too pretty to be picked on, look at some of the videos on YouTube made in response to Amanda Todd's suicide video. Beautiful girls (even blondes!) can be bullied too.

It tries to be a movie with a good message but it ignores the MAJOR points of cyberbullying and constantly shouts out the lie that it's always the internet that does it and never the people actually bullying them. It's obviously written by people who have never actually used social media and that is proven by the fact that they never think of reporting or blocking the people who bully them as you can do on Facebook and several other social media sites. Honestly, the only reason people try to defend it is because it tries to shine some light on cyberbullying so they don't care if it's horrible.

I wasn't expecting much from this movie if i'm being honest, just thought it was some teen film which would appear totally fake. However, when watching it I began to realise the social issues hidden within the film, and the fact that so many teenagers are going through the same thing each and every day and so many of us are oblivious to it. Emily Osment does an outstanding job of playing Taylor, who falls victim to cyber bullying resulting in extreme measures. The movie moved me, and definitely made me think about these issues, and it just isn't something to ignore. The fact that the movie is based on real events is definitely an eye opener to anyone that should watch it, and indeed, words can hurt.

Yes, cyberbullying is rampant, and yes its continuing to get worse. I don't think anyone disputes that. And yes, one way to draw attention to something like this is by making a movie about it.

Cyberbully plays like an After School Special from the early 90's. The characters are painfully flat and unconvincing, the plot is bland and predictable, and even the drama points made for more effective black comedy than actual drama.

Overall, Cyberbully has an over-dramatic, hysterical tone which almost seems like it could have been made by teenage girls. Maybe that was the intent?

While I appreciate the attempt at making a movie dealing with an increasingly hurtful phenomenon, this movie actually ends up trivializing the very issues it was trying to draw attention to.

A for effort, D- for execution.