Bully

This is a fun, feel-good film with likeable characters, just a few laughs, and an upbeat happy ending. It's about as far from a masterpiece of film making as one can get, but it has a lot of heart and it had me smiling throughout. As someone who watches a ton of films and severely dislikes most of them (just look at my ratings), this was a very pleasant surprise.

It was a nice family type movie my only problem is it is not realistic as in most bullying cases.. other kids don't look out for the bully in fear that they will be shunned. Most bullying movies are like this but in actuality the person being bullied does not have the support of other students.

Some light comedy and a few surprise actors brought the grade up

5.2

Its a well used idea, with some well used over the top actors, who draws the line for this treat and retreat film about a bukkied teenagers venge to revenge.

its an awful mess of filmaking, they should have made some more takes here and there, just to remove the soundboom shadows here and there, so if your in for silver screen magic than make a halt, its not that. but the bullied wins this test, and as a comedy it will at least feed the tase of somebody out there. the grumpy old man have seen a lot better than this, but the archetype caracters , saves the grace.

From the title itself, you have to know that it's about bullies...well, you are right....LOL

back to the review, the story was simple, the acting was alright, Danny Trejo and Ron Canada joking is what made me laugh in this movie....

if you just want to relax., this is a good movie to watch.

7/10 for me...

story is simple, the acting was average and I like how the movie ended....it's good to see that Jimmy has "diverse" friends....

In "Bully", a punk and his gang enjoy making life miserable for the weaker kids...in particularly, the pudgy and out of shape Jimmy. However, it goes way beyond this...the bully is also trying to extort money. Either Jimmy pays, or he gets beaten.

After one nasty encounter with the bully, an older man, 'Action' Jackson* (Ron Canada) sees Jimmy getting his butt whipped. In response, he offers to introduce him to Manny (Danny Trejo)...a guy who runs a boxing gym. Now, perhaps, Jimmy will feel confident and be able to stand up for himself.

While I enjoyed seeing this film (hey, who doesn't mind seeing bullies get their butts kicked?), the film seems to downplay or ignore one major issue....this IS criminal behavior. The bully is trying to extort money from Jimmy and I am surprised no one called the cops because of this. You can (and should) get jail time for this.

This film far better than a lot of the reviews I read.....were we watching the same film? The acting wasn't bad...and Trejo and Canada were great. There is a lot of cursing, while might bother some parents, but I actually think it's a pretty good film for teens.

*This name might sound familiar...it's the title of a 1988 action film starring Carl Weathers.