Kids (1995)

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

I could not even get myself to finish watching this. The first shot is a CU of high schoolers making out for way too long. That wasn't the only cringy scene in the film. The entire first twenty minutes cuts between a group of guys talking about sex and a group of girls talking about sex. All the guys keep acting like they're the best and it is just monotonous and quite annoying. I remember a lot of use of the N word by white teens. The worst part about this film is that it isn't a fun bad movie to watch i.e. Birdemic, The Room. All I did was cringe. That goes for anything Harmony Korine has done. I've never been able to finish any of his films. So my advice for you is to not even try.

As a 17 year old myself, I'm one of the first to tell people that teenagers are not as socially undeveloped as people think we are. And by that, I include all teenagers, not just 17 year olds or older.This movie though, is so extreme, that its not even remotely close to the reality of what its like to be a teenager. First of all, the movie portrays everyone from the ages of thirteen to eighteen as living lifestyles that are pretty much the same. The truth, however, is that people change tremendously throughout their teenage years. I know quite a few people who told me they wouldn't be promiscuous, drink, or party when they got to High School as thirteen or fourteen year olds and then did all that when they got a little bit older.The parties in the movie were truly bizarre as well. There were scenes where preteen kids were smoking joints at a High School party. That makes absolutely no sense, in all my years in High School, I can tell you that nobody invites twelve or eleven year olds to a High School party. Some people don't even want to invite freshmen much less someone who just started Middle School.The screenwriter also seems to be under the impression that any random person can just walk in on a high school party. Real High School parties are very secretive, people don't want their parents, neighbors, or the cops to find out so they go to great lengths to make sure that it looks like nothing is happening. People park their cars in different streets and walk, the doors are locked, windows are shut, sometimes even the music will be turned down if you think someone is coming. In the movie though, a thirteen year old girl is able to simply walk into random orgies happening all over the city. Not only this but is also able to walk around the streets at night, no problem, just another day in these crazy teenagers' lives where no curfew, police, or parents exist.Despite what I've said though, wild stuff still happens. High Schoolers do party, sometimes the parties are unsupervised and when they are, there is often alcohol, there is often grinding, making out, and sex happening, sometimes there are even drugs. There's a lot of stuff my mom doesn't know about that I've done or participated in. As far as the language goes, teenagers do curse a tremendous amount and conversations or jokes about sex are very frequent and graphic. Even Middle School teenagers can surprise you, I saw people do some pretty sexual stuff when I was in 8th grade.So while I do want to point out that you shouldn't have unrealistic expectations of what what we're like and use that to impose restrictions that don't make sense... This movie, is fantasy. Even the parts that are somewhat true, are portrayed incredibly unrealistically and I can't think of one person who acts like the characters in this film. I can't speak for the 1995 teens since youth violence was supposed to be much higher then but as far as physical aggression goes, most High Schoolers rarely if ever fight people, and rape is considered abominable.

This is not a great film. Pictures, lighting, costumes and plot are in no way astounding. Probably not a very big budget film. Yet in 1995 some started calling it a masterpiece. It was not and it is not and it will not be. It is at best a manifesto and a testimony. Even Andy Warhol was better in his Flesh series of films.An underage kid, out of school and out of work and still taken care of by his parents is explaining us his philosophy reduced to a three letter word that he dares call love. He has no love for anything and anyone. He only has lust for the three letter word he calls love. It starts with one girl and it ends with another girl while the first girl is being taken advantage of by another boy while she is out of it due to some drugs. But in between, since this chap only takes virgins, the first virgin has been discovered and tested as HIV positive and the second who was tested negative will be tested positive afterwards, and since another boy takes advantage of the first girl he will be tested positive too later on. The lusty and lubricious boy is also an HIV spreader.And that chap dares say he only has that three letter word he calls love and if it were taken away from him he would have nothing at all. And make sure you hear me properly. He only takes and fancies virgins, and of course only girls. He is deeply anti-gay naturally, since he is a natural cock though closer to a chicken than to an adult rooster. But I guess he can cackle all the same. This vision of these young men and women all of them underage and all of them cheating one or two or more years, evolving and indulging in endless promiscuity, in never ending alcoholic binges and in perpetual drug taking, this vision is sickening but it is true to the marrow and the bone for a rather important minority of young people who are not able to find any stability in their own families. So they steal, even from their mothers, so they brutalize and eventually kill – who cares – those who stand in their way though the film only shows Chinese and blacks in such situation of the victims of these hooligans' thieving and mugging and brutalizing. These are the dregs of society and to show them without any kind of depth or humanity is more or less targeting the good society to show them how bad it could be if these were to be authorized up even only one rung on the social ladder. They deserve to be at the bottom and to stay there. Luckily for good society at the time, and still today, these dregs do not want to go up and they are satisfied with soaking in their own sweat and other bodily juices.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

At the start it looks like a little bit of underage kids doing adult things. But little did I know how old they actually were. My guess was 16. Turns out it's 12 and 13 year old kids in White Ghetto New York. It was very entertaining to see the average day in the life of late 80s and 90s kids. The kids are crazy, and quite frankly remind me of myself when I was that age. What with all the weed, drinking, and fun with friends. But I really related to the movie. I really found laughter and drama in what really isn't too funny a movie, and no this review isn't a review on the whole movie. It's my experience with the movie. 10/10 IGN, Would Watch again.