Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 3.0
Decent exploitation movie. Worth watching...once
This film opens with such an obvious and laughable set-up (reminiscent of some sort of cautionary sex-ed pamphlet) that it's hard to take anything that follows seriously. However, it's well done in parts, and it *is* realistic, if a wee bit overdone. There are some nice touches of character here and there. I kept wondering what the point of it was, though. There's no plot or anything particularly interesting going on. It's apparently supposed to be a "message" film, but what is the message? That kids like this exist? Anyone who's ever been to high school can tell you that. Most people have been around this sort of thing to one degree or another. Sure, it's shocking, in a cheap, exploitive way, to see graphic scenes of young kids boozing and doing drugs and having sex, but after an hour and a half, it all gets pretty boring. And that's the most shocking part of all.