When You consider starting Your Review with... "Well... It COULD have been worse!" You know You are in trouble!
Obviously, the owners of the TITLE rights, wanted to cash in... And made a "SEQUEL" that really bares extremely little resemblance to the original film!
Sadly, as was more often than not the case with movies from the 60s and 70s, when a sequel was made, the results were almost always woefully inferior to the original! Sorry to say that CHILDREN is no exception! Absolutely every PLOT development is utterly and excruciatingly predictable! Production values range from barely passable to simply awful. Acting is either very flat or way over the top!
To be honest... I really wanted to like CHILDREN... But despite really making an effort to do so... I debated giving it 3***... But ultimately decided to be a tad generous ...and ended up bestowing it with 4****. IMDb says that LESS than 9% of viewers rated it 9 or 10 Stars... So, apparently, most people tended to agree with me pretty much!
Obviously, the owners of the TITLE rights, wanted to cash in... And made a "SEQUEL" that really bares extremely little resemblance to the original film!
Sadly, as was more often than not the case with movies from the 60s and 70s, when a sequel was made, the results were almost always woefully inferior to the original! Sorry to say that CHILDREN is no exception! Absolutely every PLOT development is utterly and excruciatingly predictable! Production values range from barely passable to simply awful. Acting is either very flat or way over the top!
To be honest... I really wanted to like CHILDREN... But despite really making an effort to do so... I debated giving it 3***... But ultimately decided to be a tad generous ...and ended up bestowing it with 4****. IMDb says that LESS than 9% of viewers rated it 9 or 10 Stars... So, apparently, most people tended to agree with me pretty much!