Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Cody Gearheart Kids was a very challenging movie for me. It was one that delivered strongly on its promise of being a disturbingly realistic depiction of urban teen life. The film was very effective in its delivery, but it was so gratuitously graphic in dialogue and nihilism that it literally felt like a chore to watch. Sure, the film was realistic I suppose but what was it really trying to achieve besides making me super uncomfortable and scaring me into wearing a condom? In summary, Kids isn't necessarily a bad film but it's just so vulgar and non-judgemental about it's disturbing sexual content involving teens that it's hard to see where the filmmakers stood with the overall message. The film never really comes up with a solution for the problem, which is refreshing in some aspects but overall meaningless when covering a subject like that.

cademartin 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.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU 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

tristandude14 I had heard about "Kids" several years back after seeing Harmony Korine's 1997 film "Gummo" which I was not impressed with. I wanted to see "Kids", however, because it sounded like one of those really screwed up films that's so bad you shouldn't watch it, yet you can't look away. Well, in a way, that is what "Kids" is. I finally rented the film a few weeks ago and watched it. Let me just say, with a single viewing, I had mixed feelings. I didn't expect what I saw. I am not a prude person by any means, but all the graphic sex talk between the teenagers was a bit much. It was so descriptive and realistic to the point that it was almost too realistic to be real, if that makes any sense at all. However, after some thinking, I realized this movie is depicting the way some kids really live. There are kids who talk about sex all day, come from really screwed up families, and sleep with everyone in sight. The sad truth is that this is one of the most realistic films you can find out there today. This may sound like a stretch, but I feel like it should almost be shown in schools (with permission slips, of course) because if you want a movie that can really scare the crap out of teenagers into using protection and not sleeping around, I feel like this movie can do it. "Kids" is shown more like a documentary than a work of fiction and is so realistic you feel like you're watching truth. 8 out of 10 stars.