7.8
Viewer Rating
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Documentary, Music • 2025 • 94 min
Simple Plan: The Kids in the Crowd (2025)
Simple Plan: The Kids in the Crowd (2025)
Overview
Simple Plan: The Kids in the Crowd is a Canadian music documentary marking the pop-punk band's 25-year career, built around archival footage, interviews with the members, and appearances by punk-rock peers like Avril Lavigne, Mark Hoppus, and Dexter Holland. The film frames the band's story through brotherhood, fan loyalty, and resilience across a sold-out 2024 world tour. The Leans Traditional label follows naturally from the content: the documentary centers conventional male friendship and career identity without engaging progressive framing, DEI messaging, or any political or social commentary. No LGBTQ, trans, or ideological themes surface. It is, essentially, a celebration of a band being a band for a very long time.
Starring Cast
Avril Lavigne • Mark Hoppus • Dexter Holland
Where to watch
Prime VideoRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
7.8
Overview
Simple Plan: The Kids in the Crowd is a Canadian music documentary marking the pop-punk band's 25-year career, built around archival footage, interviews with the members, and appearances by punk-rock peers like Avril Lavigne, Mark Hoppus, and Dexter Holland. The film frames the band's story through brotherhood, fan loyalty, and resilience across a sold-out 2024 world tour. The Leans Traditional label follows naturally from the content: the documentary centers conventional male friendship and career identity without engaging progressive framing, DEI messaging, or any political or social commentary. No LGBTQ, trans, or ideological themes surface. It is, essentially, a celebration of a band being a band for a very long time.
Starring Cast
Avril Lavigne • Mark Hoppus • Dexter Holland
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The documentary examines the band's professional journey and interpersonal bonds through archival footage and interviews, offering no engagement with ideological frameworks or partisan messaging.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Low
The documentary relies on traditional casting of its white male band subjects and supporting punk-rock figures with no recastings or diversity mandates evident. Its account of the group's internal bonds and career path maintains neutral or affirmative framing of conventional identities without critique or DEI emphasis.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium
The documentary contains no meaningful exploration of family structures, roles, or values, limiting references to incidental mentions of parental basements as early practice spaces. Interviews with friends and family serve only to contextualize the band's career trajectory rather than examine domestic norms.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The documentary features no LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The documentary offers no identifiable transgender characters or themes. Filmmakers had exclusive access to band archives and interviews with Simple Plan members and punk-rock peers; the central question posed concerns the band's 25-year journey of friendship, resilience, and fan connection.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The documentary features the real-life male members of Simple Plan and other musicians appearing as themselves through archival footage and interviews, with no recast legacy characters or gender-altered portrayals from prior canon.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
No race swaps occur. The documentary features the real members of Simple Plan and fellow musicians appearing as themselves.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.6
8.0
Critic Ratings
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