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As you might expect, the bulk of Devil's Playground follows its various subjects on beer, drug, and TV benders. It's fascinating stuff -- the boys wear english clothes; the girls stick with traditional Amish garb; both sexes run wild at a mini-rave. It's insanity. There's Amish kids on Rollerblades, for God's sakes!
At the same time, a lot of Playground is really familiar, treading dangerously close to Jerry Springer and Girls Gone Wild material. After about 30 minutes, I'd seen enough to get the drift -- it's a hard choice, and about 10% of kids decide not to 'go Amish,' but the vast majority do. Amish kids are just as rotten as regular kids. Amish families face the same challenges you and I do, buttons or no.
The DVD features a commentary track (and I'm always suspicious of documentaries with commentary tracks -- why didn't just put it into the movie?) which is largely disposable. The deleted scenes are also worth a peek but little more.
