Like most movies that come wrapped in controversy, Kids doesn t quite deliver. I m not writing this in an offended mood of high outrage. I wish I were.
Kids is too dramatically listless, too artfully artless, to be truly offensive.
The moments of genuine power are few and very far between. She spends the movie trying to find Telly and brief him on her condition, because he s the only boy she s ever slept with. He wakes up after the film s climactic party and, in one desperate and repugnant act, brings the plot full circle. Plus it has random spasms of sex and violence to keep our interest. Critics are calling this a daring movie.