1995's Kids showed a thought-provoking, shocking, and/or exploitative view of troubled teens, depending on your view of frank depictions of sex, drugs, and violence as it pertains to those under eighteen. Lawrence Lau's social drama Spacked Out travels much of the same territory. However, despite carrying a Category III (Hong Kong's version of NC-17) rating, there's nothing really hard-hitting or really all that interesting here at all. In fact, at many points, Spacked Out almost comes off at times as a glorified ABC afterschool special, just with a bit more cursing and meth smoking.