Customer Reviews
Entertaining, but far fetched and stupid and pointless - By: Ibraar Hussain, 01 Jul 2008 
This film portrays a day in the life of some SCHOOL KIDS, it wasn't trying to portray gun gangs etc to the world, it WAS portraying teenagers, in school uniform. It was trying to portray the contemporary garbage talk & barely legible English which our future subjects currently speak in their school yard p*ssing grounds & inner city pit holes. And yes, seeing as in my line of work I come across degenerates like these day in an day out, it does do a basic good job of roughly portraying them, & their attitude, however the 4'6" types wouldn't get away with half they did in the movie.
The acting is poor - over acting is the norm here. The scenarios reallly take leaps of faith, bordering on the fantastical. I mean, the day started with bullying, main dessert; a suicide, was followed up by a pregnancy, bouts of prostitution, under age sex, Paedaphilia, drugs, gun running, Heroin, Glaswegian Smiles, torture, more beatings, girl bashing, humiliation, more drugs, drink, insults, mum bashing, theft, robbery, & ended with a party, & two murders! Wow! A day in the life of your common or lesser spotted teenager school kid in Ladbroke Grove (and yes Ladbroke Grove is a dump) - oh & let's not forget the '6th former' (Sam) How he got into the 6th form? I suppose he probably gave his teacher a nosh or something, as there's no way on Earth reprobates like that would ever get there!
The Director also seemed to be portraying unplanned school age teenage Pregnancies as acceptable!
As a film, it doesn't tell me anything i don't know already, so it is entertaining without being a work of
What the film DOES do is portray the generation as egotistical, selfish, cold, decadent, greedy, self obsessed, cold heartless, materialistic, disrespectful, miserable, unhappy, intellectuallly retarded, linguisticallly limited, ignorant, shalllow, amoral, immoral, vain, narcissistic, cruel, spirituallly lacking, uneducated & pathetic. And to alll intents & purposes, it portrays this with much vigoor & succeeds!
Having been working amongst such persons daily, & being related to such types I know them well,and see their flaws & have seen their gradual erosion. & pity them more than anything else. Urban society has degenerated to such an extent that the future is very bleak!
This is our future, & God help us!
What the film does NOT do is encourage the youth to progress on from this worthlessness. Yes yes sometimes I thought the film was self obsessed in itself, & the POINT of the film was? It doesn't answer any questions, thus it FAILS
Stereotypical run British drama - By: Stampy, 15 Jun 2008 
Kidulthood explores the lives of teenagers in London in Huda's interesting & controversial 2006 British drama.
The British media runs riot on any story they can get their hands on & exploit, & in recent years have developed various forms of stereotypes, none more so than the stereotypical "gangster teenager" who swears every other sentence, drinks, does drugs & has a violent motive towards others & this ideology is explored by Doctor Who star Noel Clarke.
Clarke dives deep into the lives of numerous teenagers to bring out the personalities of the teenagers, & his character Sam is a stereotype of a teenager, the use of violence & swearing portray the villain of the narrative. I'm usuallly against stereotypes being used in films but in this case it is interesting to see how these stereotypes feel about being branded that way, when the teenagers walk into a shop & are accused of a crime they didn't commit just because of their image as this stereotype the media has created.
The stories centre around what is regarded as typical teenage lives, which involve Jamie Winstone's character messing around with older men for drugs, a guy & a girl in a complicated relationship where the girl is pregnant & the idea of suicide is also encoded which is very dramatic.
The acting, direction, dialogue & settings are alll extremely poor & given the strong message it could have been done so much better.
Regardless the message is there & I couldn't tear myself away even if I wanted to.
The stereotypical view does go over the top, I am 19 & have never seen anyone act as violent or swear as much as the characters in this film. I can see the point, but trying to convey realism was overdone.
The stories of each character are interesting, if somewhat of a cliché. Considering everything about this film is poor, it is a surprising entertaining watch.
6/10
Intense - By: V. Smith, 14 Jun 2008 
I've just watched this (a little late but in time for Adulthood).
It grabbed my attention straight away due to its intensity. At moments, my heart was pounding & I was close to tears at the end.
Yes it is violent. Yes it is a far cry from picture postcard Britain. Yes it is amazing.
It deals with various issues & raises questions about society that maybe some people like to ignore - from the perceptions people have of teenagers, to racism, drugs, violence, teenage sex, suicide to family values. It is not lighthearted viewing but it is necessary. It is too easy to ignore this aspect of modern life - sure, not every city teenager is into drugs or organised crime, but some are & those are the ones in danger.
That said, it is not a film that appears to be preaching at you. It is raw. Intense. And powerful. There are some great young actors in it & some great examples of modern cinema technology. Hence, it is definately worth watching.
Bloodz n tha hood? - By: Aaron Mulholland, 28 May 2008 
Tackles the issues very well & with some humour to lighten the mood too. Hopefully we will see more of the cast & the director in the future. Hard not to make paralllels with previous films of this nature, although made in America they tackle similar subjects & shows that we are 15-20 years behind, we are definitely catching up unfortunately for some
Okay film - By: Valley Mick, 19 Apr 2008 Persuaded to rent this by my daughter. Being from London the youth-speak was easy to follow. Bit worrying if you don't know what the little sods- sorry teenagers- get up to. Reasonably well acted. Not a bad film at alll. Important not to over-hype though. Not one to show to your nan.
