'Rock 'n' Roll High School' rejiggered for idealists, with the youngsters mobilizing for gay rights and freedom of speech instead of sneaking off to the Ramones.
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10/21/05
Kids in America (2005)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:6
Rotten:27
Average Rating:4.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Based on real events, Kids In America is a teen comedy about a diverse group of high school kids who band together to peacefully kick their principal's ass. Boasting an impressive cast of both... [More]
Starring: Samantha Mathis, Elizabeth Perkins, Gregory Smith, Crystal Grant
Director: Josh Stolberg
Reviews for Kids in America
Would be easier to root for if it weren't so very pleased with itself.
10/21/05
Top CriticA muddled mess whose message gets lost in the confusion.
10/21/05
Even after 18 years of seeing every movie that plays here, I’m still surprised by some films. I even gave this one conflicting ratings.
11/02/05
Better than it has any right to be.
10/20/05
A comedy so inane and tedious that it buries its premise and its various worthy points under too many arch and improbable shenanigans and endless dialogue, much of it seriously under-inspired.
10/20/05
Top CriticLike a bad episode of 'Saved by the Bell: the Next Generation' as filtered through 'Free to Be, You and Me'
10/20/05
You know all those 'brainless high school comedies'? Here's what one would look like if it had brains.
10/21/05
Top CriticShort on real teenage angst and emotion, the film is long on caricatures.
10/20/05
A trite teen comedy burdened with lofty aspirations of rallying adolescent audiences to political action.
10/20/05
For sheer nerve, I give it full marks, even if it can't quite overcome its limitations in other areas.
10/27/05
Josh Stolberg's mild-mannered satire imagines that teenage rebellion in the Bush era has gone soft.
10/20/05
Top CriticAn anti-Bush, pro-First Amendment, completely ridiculous fight-the-power comedy that happens to have been inspired by actual events.
10/21/05
It's baffling how a movie that cries on the behalf of idealistic, misunderstood teenagers could portray its heroes so one-dimensionally and anyone on the opposite side as a ruthless Neanderthal.
10/21/05
Well-meaning but woefully unconvincing.
10/21/05
Top CriticFilmmaker Josh Stolberg claims to have been inspired by real-life events, but mostly he ineptly rips off other movies and wastes a cast that includes Rosanna Arquette, Adam Arkin and Elizabeth Perkins.
10/21/05
This indie teen movie is like a cafeteria lunch tray: lots of little compartments, with nothing particularly appetizing in any of them.
10/21/05
A feeble call to arms, and inept entertainment to boot.
10/21/05
boy, does it kick goals! There's some real fun to be had here
09/12/06
Leaving the expression of 17 year-olds to the care of 35 year-old men is a good pathway to mediocrity, and a sure promise of insufferable, bogus screenwriting.
10/23/05
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