Adulthood (DVD)

Supposedly 6 years after the events from the 2006 film Kidulthood, Sam (Noel Clarke) has since done his time in prison for the manslaughter of Trife. Upon his release he heads to the cemetery where Trife's grave is where he attacked by a member of Trife's family. He warns him that people are after him and his family for what he did six years ago and that if he thought he had it tough in prison it's nothing compared to what he's got coming to him. Sam wants to know who's after him because it could be any number of people who he enraged 6 years ago with his bullying ways. He tracks down old friends from school who he knew around the time when he killed Trife. ...  Read the complete review

The original Kidulthood was a serviceable, albeit lazily scripted film about how supposedly poor the conditions are of inner-city kids in London. It totally romanticises this and tries to almost give it a British spin on something like HBO's superb show The Wire. It was well acted enough to work, and the ending was visceral. The sequel, however, is another beast altogether. I respect Noel Clarke for breaking into directing at such a young age, but this is a laughable, hilariously bad sequel that offers little real drama. Instead, it offers bathetic and overly dramatic interludes that Clarke has clearly pinched from watching too many films by Spike Lee. They ...  Read the complete review

In 2006, the extremely talented and versatile Noel Clarke worked with director Menhaj Huda to create the cult disturbing film Kidulthood, telling the tale of 1 day in the lives of a group of 15 year olds, threatened by a violent bully on the streets of London. Two years on, and Clarke takes his original script from Kidulthood and creates a sequel, Adulthood. This time, he directs the film himself, and the results are excellent once more. A short synopsis of Kidulthood, and a brief description of the plot for Adulthood, will reveal spoilers about Kidulthood, so if you are planning to watch it, perhaps look away now. Safe to say that both films are very good and ...  Read the complete review

AdULTHOOD is the sequel to the much lauded cult film of a few years back named 'Kidulthood.' For those of you who are a stranger to the original; the film is set in London and follows a group of fifteen year old inner city youths. I apologise for spoiling the plot slightly but I feel it is necessary to explain where the sequel, namely 'AdULTHOOD' is coming from. The film is set in a one day-one night time frame and this is also true of the sequel. The kids are given the day off school after a classmate's suicide and fill the day with a large helping of violence, bad language, petty crime, drugs and menial disputes which continue to escalate throughout the film ...  Read the complete review

INTRO KiDULTHOOD came as a message to parents of what their children could be doing upon it's release in 2006, and is still just as critically acclaimed as it was back then. Whilst perhaps some adults would be shocked by the way they threw together a ridiculous amount of events into one day, the movie gained cult status within the kidulthood generation - even though everyone knows those events should have spanned over the event of say.. a week. AdULTHOOD on the otherhand appeared to me as creating more a message to the youngsters in an age where gun and knife crime are more rife than ever before. Whilst the original movie appeared to glamorise drug ...  Read the complete review