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I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Vanessa (Alexa PenaVega) is poor, straight A student and a great soccer player. She's part of the popular crowd with mean girl Nikki and her best friend rich girl Stacey (Leah Pipes). Stacey likes Tony and Vanessa tries to talk up Stacey to him but he likes Vanessa instead. Nikki takes the opportunity to start bullying Vanessa with the rest of the class. The only person on her side is class outcast Emily. Her mother Barbara, who works for Stacey's mother Denise Larson, is helpless and lost.This is a gut-wrenching teen melodrama. There are a couple of turns in the last act that I don't really like. Alexa PenaVega makes this better-than-most teen lesson movie. She has great vulnerability. Stacey seems to be an interesting complicated character. She's set up for some redemption which the movie turns 180 in the end. Emily is the magical negro character. The adults are mostly clueless. PenaVega is able to make this better than the material.

I saw many movies with same topic there's the cyber bully movie with Hannah Montana's friend which was really bad. This movie is more real and convincing. One thing I can't believe about this movie, the girl was very patient with them. Can anybody be this naive and sensitive.I was watching the whole thing and I'm about to explode. If the bullies can meet me at that moment I'll commit a crime. If this happens to me, I'll stand up for myself I'll ignore it and move forward with my life. The whole thing was non convincing specially the girl's attitude. Can someone be this soft and pure ? I don't think so. I think as well everything was exaggerated over this movie even the effects they made the hall ways look darker with the black metal music all over the movie, the bullies attitude after the suicide attempt.. But, the movie has a good purpose and it's to inform schools about the dangers of bully and how can people learn to not give it such an importance. If someone is bothering you, walk away, choose a farther place at the lunch table, laugh at them, let them know you don't give them any importance, let them know that they're the only losers they're losing their time on some worthless stuff. If they're e-mailing you unbearable stuff just block them and you'll win the sanity of your mind rather than getting crazy or committing suicide.

Every time I watch this movie, it breaks my heart and sometimes reminds me of the problems I go through at my high school. I could not believe how mean and nasty those girls were to Vanessa Snyder. What I truly could not believe was how Vanessa's "friend" Stacey could clearly betray Vanessa like that and hurt her so viciously. I'm sure some of us knows how it feels to be hurt so badly by someone whom we thought was our friend, let alone someone who will not put on an act and just be outright nasty to you like Nikki. It is not that confusing to determine that Stacey is a fake; she truly wanted to hurt Vanessa and was not at all her friend. Just like me, Vanessa is a very emotionally sensitive person, she can get hurt very easily, but unlike her, I try to stay as far away from my back-stabbers as possible. I would never again be friends with the people who have hurt me nor give them a second chance in the risk of being hurt badly again. I used to make that mistake many times, and I have learned from it and paid the consequences. I can not believe that Vanessa's will and self-esteem were so low that she kept forgiving Stacey and was only setting herself up to be in more trouble and be hurt more wildly and that she tried to kill herself. If I were Vanessa, I would never again have been friends with Stacey the very first time that Stacey hurt her and caused all those girls to be ugly and nasty to her. And as for those hateful, nasty instant messages they would always send Vanessa, not only should Vanessa have printed them out, but her mother should have taken those nasty messages to the school board and to the police as clear, cruel evidence of those girls' nasty crimes, since the principal did not seem to take the matter very seriously, and those girls should have been heavily charged and punished. Nothing too much was done about those nasty girls, Vanessa, her mother and the principal kept treating the problem so lightly; I would have expelled the girls from school and never allowed them to graduate. Those girls seriously did not get the message when Vanessa tried to kill herself, they just kept on teasing her so badly about it; I could NOT believe those nasty hate messages they sent her after her suicide attempt, when the girl literally almost died. Those kids obviously did not care how badly they hurt Vanessa, they would never stop at it, they would never stop to think how far they would be going. I seriously can not believe and fathom just how mean and nasty human beings can be to each other; it is just unbelievable to me and always will be. How can people be so evil and heartless and not at all think about or give a hoot what the consequences would be? Do they not get it? I do not have the heart to bully someone for no reason at all, and I find no reason at all too. I am a completely sweet, lovable, down-to-earth person to anybody. Unfortunately, there are way few people like me and too many nasty people in this world.

On a scale of 1-10, I give this movie a 7. I can't say I enjoyed the film, because this is not a film that you "enjoy". You DO like the movie, but there are times in the movie that make you feel disturbed, depressed, and even nauseous, because of some of the things that Vanessa (Alexa Vega's character) had to go through.I've always liked Alexa Vega (notice how I said "like" and not "love"), especially from the Spy Kids films. I saw her in Sleepover, which wasn't all that good, though I didn't expect anything better.Alexa put on a pretty good performance. The thing I like to look for in a movie with high profile actors/actresses (such as Alexa Vega in this one) is that I hope that I can believe they are their characters, and not just themselves playing the characters, if that makes sense.Her performance as Vanessa was solid, believable, and (I'm sure for some people, myself not included) tear-rendering. I'm a guy, but I know a lot of girls that would cry during this movie.The rest of the cast did a pretty good job too. Leah Pipes seemed like the typical popular girl. Like many popular girls at my school, she talked a lot of trash, yet didn't really mean what she said. In the end, she was the one left alone, and you DON'T feel sorry for her.The biggest surprise for me was the rock-solid performance by Alicia Morton as snooty, wannabe Tiffany. The last time I saw Alicia in anything was several years ago in the Disney remake of Annie, which she wasn't bad at, but I didn't really think about her having been Annie as much as I thought I would. She, like Stacey (Leah Pipes) was very much like the preppy, popular girls at my school.Though she put on an okay performance, Elizabeth Rice, who played Nikki, Stacey's best friend and Vanessa's former friend, stood out the least. Though her acting was convincing, I didn't really think of her character as much when it came to the "mean girls" in the movie.Before I saw this film, my brothers, who had seen it before and didn't especially like it, told me it was like Mean Girls, though more dramatic. If you're looking for a movie like Mean Girls, this is NOT the movie to see. It is NOT funny, for one thing, and it has a very different storyline.If you think you will enjoy the film, you are wrong. You WILL ,like it though. Anybody who has been to high school can relate, whether you are a guy or girl.