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mary-179-677383 Teri is not a comedy. It is a drama. It had a 1 star rating on Netflix, but due to the reviews on here I gave it a go. I watched the whole film, I waited and waited for something interesting to happen. It was boring and the characters were not very likable, especially Chad. Terri's father is an invalid, but we don't seem to learn anything about him. Terri makes him breakfast and reminds him of stuff... I guess he is helping.A lot of scenes of Terri walking around being depressed.His character was of a sweet and curious nature. He was definitely a "Kind heart" but Chad was not a kind heart. I didn't like this movie, because it felt unfinished. He didn't grow or develop.

fedor8 A comedy drama? They could have fooled me. "Terri, you're so funny," says the blond. Which Terri has she been watching?"Terri" is yet another non-saga about an outsider, another lone-boy/misfit tale that the world of film doesn't necessarily need. A dull fat kid hates his life, and he has every reason to. If I had to carry that much extra weight around with me then I'd jump off the first bridge – or go on an extreme diet; no third option there. But it's this third option of Terri just walking around depressed and glum that the movie focuses on, which is admittedly how it is in real life. (It is this inertness and lack of self-initiative that gets fatties into their unhealthy predicaments in the first place). As if we hadn't seen it all before, on film or in real life.Fat Boy has his reasons for being obese and undisciplined (as much as having layers of flab during teenage years can ever be justified), but it's hard to care that much. Perhaps if Chubbs were more interesting or at least a little more animated. While I do not support direct verbal abuse of obese people (ridiculing them behind their XXXL backs is perfectly fine), especially abuse of lard-ass kids, in any kind of public situation, I do nevertheless believe that most fatties need some amount of harassment and abuse in order to wake and smell the coffee, a reminder that the excessive crap they're carrying around with them isn't anything they should ever get used to. For those who don't change their gluttonous ways even after they'd been mocked for the umpteenth time and can barely get out of bed without the aid of a crane or three strong wrestlers, they don't deserve either our time or our pity. Terri's P.E. teacher is right on the money with his criticism of Blob Kid. Terri's response to whether he wants to participate in P.E. class is a resounding "no". If I were that teacher I'd have him crawling on all fours until he's blue/red/yellow/green in the face and until he'd vomited his last five bean-based breakfasts."Terri" has no point to make, aside from a few observations about "the human condition", which is, I guess, why this movie's poster is full of those useless-movie-festival and hopelessly-deluded-critics' quotes that are supposed to elevate a merely solid movie into the status of a minor classic. Indeed, the writer/director was obviously clueless about how to end the movie, which is why it has no real ending; no conclusion, no main event, nothing tangible to wrap up the story in a meaningful way. This might as well be the first episode in a TV mini-series.That wasn't the only part of the script the writer/director was unsure about. He must have been puzzled how to make Terri and the blond beauty interact (considering how relatively boring he had made the title character) in Blubber-Boy's house, so he inserted the highly predictably plot-device of Chad interfering with their first meeting/date, acting as a catalyst to the movie's worst and dumbest moments.Speaking of which, while Terri at least appears like a reality-based character i.e. someone we can believe actually exists on planet Earth, Chad doesn't – in the slightest. Chad is one of those absurd dime-a-dozen High-School-movie inventions of the sort that we'd already seen in countless cliché teen flicks about very fictional kids. Even worse, this badly written part was also badly miscast; giving it to some skinny little runt-of-the-litter loser kid who can't weigh more than 35 pounds was just adding insult to injury. (I suppose we were supposed to find the body contrast between the heavyweight and the ultra-featherweight kids very amusing.) Both Chad's character and the actor who plays him are highly annoying, adding nothing to the story except unnecessary nonsense. Chad's overly adult (hence absurd) humour and the illogical amounts of confidence he carries (for a runt of his kind) weigh down the director's attempts at realism. The film hits its low point when Chad gets high and starts urinating on his pants, a ludicrous scene that must have caused that deranged, empty-headed buffoon Harmony Korine ("Ken Park") to cry out: "I wish I'd thought of that!" Perhaps John Waters would have gladly done it too, in one of his older movies. Chad offering his tiny pecker to the blond was just as absurd; perhaps a scene more fitting in a "Porky's" movie.That whole awful blond-comes-over-to-Terri's-house segment utterly sinks whatever seriousness or momentum the film had built up until that point. It failed comedically too – in case that had been the writer/director's goal, which is hard to tell. In fact, there wasn't one moment in the movie that I could label as truly funny. There was a handful of mildly amusing moments, but that's about it. Terri should have signed up for an episode of MTV's "Made"; that would have been funnier and no less "poignant". In reality, the blond would have wanted Terri only as a friend; the fact that this experienced harlot wants him sexually, drugged or not, has no basis in reality.The pajama-wearing hasn't an iota of realism, nor does the masturbation scene; these kids would have done it in the toilet.The movie does have a solid look though, and the dialogue (apart from Chad's) is generally OK. Reilly's school principal has some originality, and ultimately this should have been a story about him, not the fat kid who needs the boob-job. I'd like to use this opportunity to recommend Ricky Gervais's stand-up comedy, during which he often has a lengthy segment in which he ridicules obesity. It's some of the funniest stuff I'd seen in a while.

meeza The independent film "Terri" is not a bio flick about Berlin lead singer Terri Nunn; if that would be the case, it would be a surefire Oscar winner. OK, so I am bias; and I do promise I will provide "no more words" to this review on my fascination with Ms. Nunn. Anyways, "Terri" actually is a very sweet movie about an overweight outcast teen named (see movie title) who wears pajamas to school, and is not to expressive. Terri lives with his uncle who suffers from Alzheimer's. The main subject of "Terri" is Terri's meetings with his school's assistant principal Mr. Fitzpatrick. The best scenes of "Terri" is on the elevator relationship of Mr. Fitz and Terri, and how Fitzpatrick notices the good-heartedness in Terri even though he is constantly tardy and does not have the proper school attire. But life is not one big Pajama Party for Terri; he is so profoundly unemotional due to the constant bullying he must have encountered throughout his young life; it is a norm to his daily routine. Terri does develop a friendship with an unstable student named Chad who pulls his hair follicles out due to his mental condition. The attractive teen student Heather enters the picture and has a key role in Terri's development. She herself is bullied at school due to an incident where students saw a male student perform a sexual act on Heather during home economics class. I can't put my finger on which sexual act it was; OK, that is enough. Director Azazel Jacobs does an admirable job in directing the picture; even though I could have done without the mousetrap scenes, which to me were kind of cheesy. However, Jacobs mastered the interaction chemistry between Mr. Fitzpatrick and Terri. Jacobs co-wrote the screenplay with Patrick Dewitt, and I must say it was very "dewitty". Newcomer Jacob Wysocki was not sucky at all as the title character. He was very impressive. I am sure Jacob will be climbing up the thespian ladder in the motion picture industry. And there is the great John C. Reilly who was a stalwart as A.P. Mr. Fitzpatrick; I will discipline those that say JCR is not one of the best actors in the movie business. Impressive supporting turns were also turned out by teen actors Olivia Crocicchia as Heather and especially Bridger Zadina as Chad. "Terri" was solid enough to get me terri-eyed to notice how authentic this character-oriented movie was; and that really is enough for me to recommend to you to get terried-away with a "Terri" viewing experience. **** Good

napierslogs The tag-line for "Terri" is "We've all been there." Yes, we have all felt alienated at some point in our lives. But unlike Terri, most of us do not pro-actively alienate ourselves. Terri is in high school and life is difficult for him because he's weird, over-weight and just plain unlikable. We're supposed to feel sympathy for him, but I never liked him.He wears pyjamas to school (the same ones everyday), takes joy in the demise of animals, and has no thought of altering his behaviour when kids bully him. The only thing that seems to help is when Assistant Principal Mr. Fitzgerald (John C. Reilly) takes an interest in helping him and denotes him as a good-hearted student.I like John C. Reilly and I like the idea of the principal wanting to help out the less popular kids. Fitzgerald's tactics are unorthodox and certainly not illegal or even immoral, but in reality, they would definitely get him fired. Terri's would-be friends were more interesting characters but the pretty and popular Heather who was written as knowing how pretty she is would be less likely to engage in low self-esteem actions.Perhaps "Terri" isn't even trying to place itself in reality. I don't know. For such a simple, slow-moving film, there was a number of things that I didn't know. Some of which they didn't tell me, others I just didn't care enough to find out the answers for myself. If Terri doesn't care, why should I?