Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

sailormoon118 If this is all fake can I "Catfish" Nev next? Cuz WOW he's cute! Plus I'm mostly honest when talking to random strangers online.In all seriousness, fake or real I think this does two things really well. First, it examines the character's lives in a way that really feels reliable to the audience.The second thing it does well is give a bit of a face to most parent's fears about social media, but it does it in a not abductor rape kind of way.All in all I enjoyed it's plot very much, although personally I'm not a fan of the hand held "amateur documentary" style of film making. It makes this feel a little like a found footage horror flick even though it isn't.

jennifer-menzies At first, this film seemed exciting, intriguing and credible. However it has since became obvious that it is not a real life story at all. The whole thing is clearly a rip off of two other genuine real life documentaries - 'Talhotblond' and 'My Kid Could Paint That.' Watch those instead and avoid this. (Unless you are happy to accept that it is fiction and ignore the fact that the film makers are trying to hoodwink you!) I hate being conned and felt cheated by this film. The smugness of Nev Schulman throughout the film is extremely annoying too! If he wished to make a film about the perils of the online world, he should have presented this as a work of fiction, rather than trying to replicate the techniques employed by the makers of 'The Blair Witch Project.' At least the people behind 'Blair Witch' revealed fairly quickly that their film was not actually real, whereas Schullman has continued to lie about the authenticity of his work. There are many obvious 'plot holes' which give the truth to the lie, but I will not list them here as I do not want to have to use the 'spoiler alert' banner!

a_kozak Catfish is a great film about trust and online anonymity and how it can be taken to advantage. This film follows the relationship between Yaniv (Nev) and Abby, an 8-year old girl who loves to paint. These two individuals expand their knowledge of one another.This film is great with some good character moments especially with Angela near the end, I love how the filmmakers chose and observational take to make us seem like we are following Nev's life. Everything in the film feels real because this could easily happen to other people and it probably does. Nev takes it one step further by surprise visiting the family. Catfish is a heart-wrenching film done in a very good way. 8/10 Watch it.

ironhorse_iv With a name like 'Catfish" I wish the documentary was about good seafood cuisine, but it isn't. It's about the shiftiness of truth and lies on the Internet. It's seem like it would be a great documentary about the psychology of people who live through personas online and how the anonymity of the internet can allow them to make their persona life seem bigger than their real life, or say or do things that they couldn't do in public. The movie barely touches that; instead we get a documentary about a young man name Yaniv "Nev" Schulman who trying to meet a woman name Megan in real life, after a long affair with her, online. Filmed by his brother Ariel Schulman and business partner Henry Joost, the documentary crew guerrilla style filmmaking followed Schulman on the journey of falling in love with a girl he meets on the internet, but later finds out that she may not be exactly who she claimed to be online. The movie was market as if a thriller-like terminology. The trailer acts like it was an Alfred Hitchcock's type of suspense as if Megan end up being a serial killer or psychopath. It may have been a tad misleading. The story is extremely contemporary. Anybody who dealt with people online such as having a Facebook or Myspace account, knows that some of them might be lying on who they are. It's nothing new. Without spoiling the movie, in my opinion the ending wasn't really that shocking. It was pretty damn predictable. Still, there is questions how real the documentary is. Some viewers believe Catfish to be a fake documentary or a hoax. Even famous documentary director Morgan Spurlock thinks they knew beforehand who was Megan was, due to the obsessively documenting Nev's online relationship due to the release that there might be highly good chance that she might be a fake. Anyways the results of finding out who she is, isn't scary, but sadder and more melancholy about how one woman's life dreams dies and how hard her life is now. It just shows that some people are so lonely that they are willing to do anything to feel connect to somebody. Some people needed a fantasy world to get through their own misery. Anyways, the movie became such a success that Schulman teamed up with MTV to produce a reality television show similar to the idea of the documentary but which focuses on the lives of others who have been entangled in an online relationship with another person. His brother and his friend Henry Joost end up directing Paranormal Activity 3 and 4 after this. Even the word 'catfish' got famous- as it's now known as someone who pretends to be someone and create false identities on social media, particularly to pursue deceptive online romance. The title of the film comes from the story about how when fishes are caught and are transported in tanks, they would often die because they wouldn't swim around and keep themselves moving. So, people would put catfish in the tanks with the other fish to keep them stimulated and moving around. He says that catfish are people who keep you on your toes. Like people in your life who will keep you going in all situations. Overall: That's the best part of the movie. I didn't like how it was promoted as "A riveting suspense thriller with a jaw-dropping twist" with neither riveting nor suspenseful twist. I felt 'catfish' by this movie's marketing. Still, it's a pretty good movie worth watching so check it out if you want to.