9 Things That Make 'Kidulthood' the Ultimate Mid-2000s Time Capsule

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The Playstation Portable didn’t launch in the UK until late 2005, and decent quality touchscreen smartphones were still a long way off. So if you wanted to play anything more than Snake II, a Game Boy Advance was your best option. Femi Oyeniran plays the flip-style SP model, with a custom tribal design just to make it even more early 2000s.

The early-00s were dark days for the FIFA series. That was the time of the early PS2 Pro Evolution Soccer games, which was what serious gamers played, yo. We’d have expected the Kidulthood cast to have been Pro Evo kids tbh, but Adam Deacon and Aml Ameen take in a game of FIFA 2005. Maybe somebody’s mum bought it for them for Christmas. 

It might be hard to remember now, but there was a time when Burberry check was thought of as high fashion, not something worn by coked-up football hooligans. The Burberry cap even features as a plot point in the film, when Trife gets accused of stealing it from a West End store.

There’s Boxfresh garms throughout the film — their logo is even in the end credits — but the most iconic piece is the varsity jacket worm by Aml Ameen.

Kidulthood is the second most iconic early-00s appearance of an A9 Akademiks tracksuit, after the video for Dizzee Rascal's "I Luv U".

Nothing dates a film like the posters in a kid's bedroom. In Trife’s room, you can clearly see posters for Dizzee’s sophomore album Showtime and the long-forgotten Kevin Hart/Beanie Sigel/ Stacey Dash comedy Paper Soldiers, and Eminem, Estelle and even Britney Spears get represented on the walls of other characters. 

Nothing takes it back to the old school like OG cameraphones. The Nokia 7610 and a Motorola flip phone both make big appearances in the film. 

Don’t pretend you didn’t used to drink them.