SunnyHello Nice effects though.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

westen1223 Although this film demonstrates highly inappropriate scenes and moments which aren't suitable for people under 12, it really does show the consequences of real life and choices. I live in London and this film is extremely accurate with the actions of young people nowadays in London, especially the fact those kids use drugs and give blowjobs to get drugs which is extremely unacceptable. Ignore the low rating because this film has it all it takes to portray londoners nowadays. Noel Clarke is just the best at writing a story about this, especially his acting. To me, he portrays his character smartly and accurately. Aml Ameen's character is one of the best, it's just sad to see him die at the end but that shows the consequences if you are part of trouble these days. The majority of the characters are 15-16 years old, it's just unacceptable to see them do inappropriate choices that can damage their body.. They have a choice whether to have a better future or to just die alone and be addicted to drugs. I just love this film truly, it portrays real life in London and shows that we teenagers need to make better choices than those characters.Kidulthood, the film that reflects real life in a city.

Spikeopath Britain's answer to Larry Clark's Kids, Kidulthood works hard for realism and shock value but falls somewhere in between. Story focuses on a group of London youngsters who have been given the day off school when one of their classmates commits suicide after being bullied. The various groups of friends spin off to do their own thing, which invariably involves drugs, violence, casual sex, teenage pregnancy angst, revenge and lots of cussing in street speak. All this is crammed into a 24 hour period, suggesting that the yoof of today never live a dull moment when not at school.Writer Noel Clarke (who also stars) and director Menhaj Huda clearly want to keep things raw and authentic, but it eventually comes off as wholly unbelievable. In fact it at times feels like it's a bunch of mates making a film and living out some fantasies where they get to be wicked for a day. There's some messages in the mix trying to break out of the hysteria, to be a wake-up call to parents and elders as to what is happening under our noses, but ultimately sensationalism wins the day.It's a film strung together by a number of instances, characterisation and reasoning is given short shrift, the makers over egging the pudding in their unrelenting mission to shock. Some scenes are undeniably attention grabbing, while the soundtrack pulses away with verve and Brian Tufano's cinematography is right on the money, but come the preachy finale you may feel you really haven't learnt anything new about the unruly and unfeeling kids of today. 6/10

jamiewalden25 This is another underrated film, the acting is excellent even if it doesn't star massive Hollywood actors/actresses, the film is depressing yet compelling, and the bleak setting and nature of the film seems scarily real.It takes place in London, and spans over a long day, in the lives of three adolescent boys, and drama and troubles they get into, and delivers one shock of an ending.The violence is brutal but real, the script is profane, but again realistic and the underage sex, drugs and violence shows us a world we live with, and could happen any day of the week

annevejb Spoilers as this comment looks at my understanding of social lepers in England. This is a story about school kids who live on the borders of London gangland. The first ten minutes I wanted to switch off, it felt sick, but it gradually got practical to watch. Is this really England? * In the eighties, a right wing Conservative time in England and a social cleansing, the EEC decided to give away some of its surplus foodstuffs, cheese, to those on what some call welfare. A magasine article about it did not show any pictures related to dairy farming subsidies but there was a picture of a huge pile of surplus tomatoes. Being long term unemployed, unemployable really, I did qualify to obtain one free package of cheese, but several people who knew me actually gave me a few packets more. It was not many months later that I started wearing a bra, difficult to obtain given my low income and fears re purchasing those in a shop. I am now certain that my bra will have shown under my shirt and it was not many months later that the social restrictions on me, what I was able to do, became even more restricted. I now assume that was politicians playing some rather naughty games to try to make the unemployable employable, just a guess. Does this relate to Kidulthood? * Around 1997 and a change in government and the normally socialist Labour waving a pink flag. As a social outcast it felt like right wing feminism and related social cleansing. I was soon feeling excluded from purchasing newspapers so there is a lot that I do not know. I do know that I started to wear tight trousers, my male-ish bulge needed to be either on display or better hidden. I was soon wearing a kilt outdoors and considering myself as a male to female, though my femaleness was a wrecked parody. I noticed male fashion swap over to T shirts, or shirts outside of the trousers, not many appeared to feel safe about wearing a proper frock. Most 'males' appeared to be affected. I also noticed some 'males' with a very large bosom, as if they had been subject to breast specific female hormones that did not give a female look elsewhere. I felt as if I had been given a choice of my breast size, one evening when there was just me, alone, in my flat, that I had reacted out of timidity. I grew up respecting female ways and considered female as better that male due to an idealised image of nurturing ways. Here I was given clear examples of the nurturing of the pink flag, it can feel as if the female world has said goodbye to most all that is worthwhile about female. Does this relate to Kidulthood? * I did try to read The Female Eunoch, way back when. I noticed that the author had experienced all males that she had been close to, ever, as being violent at heart. I really consider that author to have been misunderstanding reality in a very damaging way. Later I noticed a lesbian article about a bookshop in what used to be a laundry, it including words about ironing the crotches of trousers. Does this relate to Kidulthood? * So, the government has changed and it feels like stronger pressures on us who do not pass the test. 15th August 2011, two days after I posted my IMDb review of Camp Rock 2 someone had left a copy of the UK newspaper Star in the laundrette. Star is not something that I tended to read before I had gotten excluded. This copy showed murder and mass murder and rioting. Way more violent than say twenty years ago. It is natural for me to consider this as side effects of the actions of those who I think of as the opposition. Modern Herod's attacks against big babies and others who are not considered to pass the test; the Secret Revolution of the mid 1990's and later and its use of local street politics and community organisation to social cleanse. A right wing journalist in Star considered the riots and stuff to be due to The Other Side too, but he blamed Marxist social policies of the previous decades. I had not realised that anyone believed that Marxism had much of a reality anymore, me I tend to think of it as a clone of the Puritan Christian world. Kidadult. For me this is all in line with how I tend to consider the feature. * Star is noted for its pictures of naked females but I only noticed one in this issue and I could not relate to it. To misquote Napoleon Dynamite, it felt like a big lump of lard vaguely shaped in female form. There was also a picture of some people trying to break the world record for the most people washing in a shower at the same time. That felt alien. A crowd of ultra slender bikini females standing under a machine that looked like a parody of a sprinkler. I couldn't relate to the Star soft porn, not a surprise, but on reflection was Star using its expertise in soft porn journalism to give the most serious comment on the mayhem that it was capable of giving? * As far as storytelling goes, I find The Quiet to be more approachable. That does not mean that I consider this story to be a waste of time.