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A diverse group of high school students band together to peacefully stick it to their overbearing principal.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOnce in a blue moon a movie escapes the shackles of its genre and does what it really wants to do. Kids in America is a movie like that. It breaks out of Hollywood jail. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanOverall, though, you get the exhausting feeling that Stolberg is desperately trying to prove how cool he is. And didn't you see enough of that in high school? |
| VarietyJustin ChangJosh Stolberg launches a scalding attack on the stodgy conservatism of the American public school system, only to end up stacking the deck in egregiously smirky and simple-minded ways. |
| TV Guide MagazineAngel CohnThe cast is eclectic and talented, but their roles are two-dimensional and the is-it-or-isn't-it-satirical? tone ensures that their performances never seem properly pitched. |
| New York PostLou LumenickFilmmaker 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. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenBecause Kids in America can't decide whether it wants to be a stock teenage comedy or something more, it ends up stranded in the middle of nowhere. |
| L.A. WeeklyTim GriersonA trite teen comedy burdened with lofty aspirations of rallying adolescent audiences to political action. |
| Dallas ObserverMelissa LevineHas its heart in the right place, but its head seems to be lost in a swirling maelstrom of teen movies that have come before. |
| Village VoiceDrew TillmanNicole Richie loyalists are sure to be confounded (along with the rest of us) by Kids in America, the weirdly anti-Bush high school "satire" that is also Richie's big-screen debut. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustA 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. |