Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 4.0
Not as good as all the hype
While the content of most of the reviews here I skimmed is true, the kids in this movie are ultimately pathetic human beings and a good advertisement for not having kids you don't have time for.The few instances of parents observed are the type that have no control over their own sad lives (Telly's pathetic chain smoking breast feeding single parent mom) and as such were in no postion to give their kids any worthwhile or even interesting goals for their own lives.This movie is pretty much like Saturday Night Fever, only younger kids and minus any Tony with his undefined dreams of dancing to give it any charm.The kids are all stupid and unoriginal hedonists who are probably parodying the missing adults in their lives, dringing, smoking and trying to get laid in awkward and stupid ways.The girls in the movie all completely lack any self esteem and apparently any street savvy whatsoever, weird for NYC, as they all will apparently believe any line any loser teenage boy with nothing going for him will throw at them. The girls in this movie are all victims - of their own deficiencies and of the stupid hormone driven boys who prey upon them.When I was in middle school and high school I hung out with a weird mix of geeks and druggies, both groups from the middle class through the poor (the poor ones all had to work to help support their family). Sometimes we would encounter kids like the ones in this movie (stupid, mostly lower middle class, pedestrian and limited mentally) and I can remember wondering sometime what their sad seeming lives must be like. This movie showed me and its pretty much as bleak and a waste of time as I imagined.This movie is worth seeing but to interpret this movie as a statemnt about what all kids are like is insulting to the half-way intelligent and/or ambitious and/or talented kids in the world.