Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 1.0
Misleading title: This movie should be called "DELINQUENTS"
I would love to explain how ridiculous this movie is. But if I described the scenes, this review would not be printed. This movie was advertised as potraying an "Average" group of teens. SO misleading. These kids are not any way near average. They are the lowest of the low. I am sure there must be some losers like them, but why advertise them as average? Where i went to school, kids were looking for jobs. Kids were not all flunking out. Girls did not kiss each other casually on the lips. Boys do not comment to other boys about their mothers breasts, unless they were looking to get slugged. An average kid does not kick their pet across the room. Girls are not so naive as to fall for the BS this "Telly" gives them... any girl would be able to see right through him. An average teen in the school was not as uncaring as he was. Sure kids are horny, but not cold hearted and sick. And my friends (who certainly are not Mary- Poppins personalitied) do not reveal in graphic detail about the sex life with their girlfriend. And one person in this movie, "Casper" made the most idiotic statement i have ever heard, saying he liked to have sex with men, and he wasnt gay, he just liked to do it "for the hell of it". I am sorry, but these kids are not average. As i said before, i am sure there are kids like this, but they are not average kids. Maybe if they called this film "Delinquents" I would have a different perspective. Writer Harmony Korine wants to shock people, but he is no good at it. He takes shocking material and makes it into a movie that is not enjoyable. Korine is a John Waters wannabe, but does not succeed in making shocking films that are worth watching and are enjoyable. John Waters writes stuff that is shocking, but at the same time entertaining. Korine should visit Waters and get some tips. Korine did even worse with "Gummo"-- quite honestly one of the ten worst movies of all time. The only thing Korine has done that is worth watching is the Sonic Youth music video he directed "Sunday" with Macaulay Culkin. (Culkin can pretty much save almost anything). One last word about "Kids"-- maybe i would have reccomended it if Telly got his just desserts at the end and a girl castrated him so he would not hurt any more girls. Lorenna Bobbitt did it, and this Telly deserved it more than anyone else. By the way something also I noticed, what girl would want to be with Telly... He was ugly! Totally ugly. Enough zits to play connect-the-dots on his body. This Leo Fitzpatrick is a horrible actor, and will get nowhere in my opinion. You want a respectable Leo who is going somewhere in Hollywood, try Mr. Dicaprio