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Producer Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) is behind this decadent comedy about a pair of lowlife but oddly intelligent Welsh brothers who generally make a pain of themselves in their small community, but who get serious about exacting revenge for a family tragedy. Director Kevin Allen succeeds at turning the entire film into a jacked-up freak show, with petty terrorism, cops on the take, a young virgin getting it on with a middle-aged creep and a male choir inexplicably singing Mungo Jerry's ancient hit "In the Summertime". Twin Town is loony, nasty stuff all around, but the only good laughs in the movie are top loaded into the first few minutes. After that, it's sheer tedium. --Tom Keogh
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYNOPSIS: Twin Town opens with wide sweeping shots of seaside Swansea; to be the place of action for the next one and a half hours. The serene setting with miles upon miles of old semi-detached housing is suddenly cleaved apart by two young lads tearing through the neighbourhood in a two tone BMW 525. Julian and Jeremy are in deep trouble. Their dysfunctional family scrapes together a living from their dole money and odd-jobs offered to their father. The boys have long since turned to drug abuse and car theft leading a happy-go-lucky life in downtown no-hoper city. In due course the plot thickens as the boys are out for revenge against wealthy club owner Bryn who is not particularly helpful in providing compensation when their father is hit by an accident when working on his premises. The boys are fairly imaginative when it comes to planning their strike, culminating in scenes which all dog-haters and karaoke loathers will love.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Berlin International Film Festival, ...Twin Town
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Berlin International Film Festival, ...Twin Town
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
By David Rees
Format:DVD
Black humour at is best. A wry and unapologelic look at the seedier side of the South Wales social divide (with a few jests directed at the English thrown in). The 'twins', brothers marked out as losers at the start, are shown with their discordant but aimable family- well meaning parents and 'tart-with-a-heart' sister.
After a scene-setting but fast paced start the plot thickens in a local police/ rugby/ mafia-style drugs wrangle where the 'twins' finally triumph in an eloquant and poiniant finale to a Male Voice Choir. A memorable film with some brilliant one-liners (which have become de rigour in my household and family!)it still has great charm and sense of humour- not to everyone's taste but one I would strongly recommend to all who like the British style of humour.
After a scene-setting but fast paced start the plot thickens in a local police/ rugby/ mafia-style drugs wrangle where the 'twins' finally triumph in an eloquant and poiniant finale to a Male Voice Choir. A memorable film with some brilliant one-liners (which have become de rigour in my household and family!)it still has great charm and sense of humour- not to everyone's taste but one I would strongly recommend to all who like the British style of humour.
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
What can I say about this film besides the fact that it is one of my all time favourites. I suppose being from Swansea where the film was based makes it even more hilarious as I actually have met characters like those in the film.
The opening sequences just set the scene for the whole film. A crazy car ride with the twins taking a chunk out of Terry Walshes car resuling in the first line of the film being "F**king Dead. F**king dead as F**k!"
There are some absolutely classic scenes in the film, the Hot dog van being one of my favourites, the one with Mrs Mott and the Diazepam in the stolen BMW and who could forget the boys stealing the hearse with their fathers coffin in from outside the church!
As the film progresses, the theme does get a little darker and grittier, there are what some would call unsavoury scenes. However, it has to be said, the whole film from beginning to end is just a ride through a crazy little town called Swansea full of drugs, car thiefs, bent coppers, local gangsters and their henchmen, prostitutes and supprisingly some real community spirit and family love shown supprisingly by the twins.
Lets all go sing on Mumbles Pier.
The opening sequences just set the scene for the whole film. A crazy car ride with the twins taking a chunk out of Terry Walshes car resuling in the first line of the film being "F**king Dead. F**king dead as F**k!"
There are some absolutely classic scenes in the film, the Hot dog van being one of my favourites, the one with Mrs Mott and the Diazepam in the stolen BMW and who could forget the boys stealing the hearse with their fathers coffin in from outside the church!
As the film progresses, the theme does get a little darker and grittier, there are what some would call unsavoury scenes. However, it has to be said, the whole film from beginning to end is just a ride through a crazy little town called Swansea full of drugs, car thiefs, bent coppers, local gangsters and their henchmen, prostitutes and supprisingly some real community spirit and family love shown supprisingly by the twins.
Lets all go sing on Mumbles Pier.
35 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This film has suffered by being described everywhere as the 'Welsh Trainspotting'. I think most people miss the point that this is a very enjoyable parody of 'heroin chic' flic genre. I went to the roughest school in Swansea and no one could actually afford real drugs so were stuck with the 'sticky-sticky' (glue and aerosols). Real drugs were the preserve of the snotty, West-end, yachty set (although the town is still in widespread denial of this fact, most people being desperate to move to this side of town so that their children can go to the 'better' schools and get stuck on pot there...)
The film's real theme is the social divide between the different sides of the city expressed through the drug habits of the characters - the posh crook in the ranch-style 'Ponderosa' bungalow trying to get in with the big money heroin set versus the petty glue-sniffing underdogs. The bit where they escape in the yacht might not be the strongest ending in the world dramatically, but it made me split my sides just at the thought of swansea east low-life beating the other side at their own game (and nicking the yacht into the bargain!)
I don't think you have to be from Swansea to enjoy these themes, most big towns probably have similar social divides and tensions, and the myth that there is a single drugs culture is pretty universal too!
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twin town
deliverey was first class it is one of best comerdy films i have seen
been after the film for a long time THANKS
been after the film for a long time THANKS
Published 10 days ago by foz
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recieved it this morning was very suprised how quick it came love the film been years since seen it cant wait to give it a watch
Published 1 month ago by lindsey
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If you havent yet you must!!!!
I am from the part of Wales that this film is made in, it does not describe us all but we all know someone who does lol. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Shortie
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DVD
easy to order, very good value for money, would buy more products from this service in the future really pleased
Published 2 months ago by Mrs Andrea Angel
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very funny if you know someone Welsh!!
Not a bad film, but its alot more funny if you watch it with someone Welsh wile have a few beers!
Published 3 months ago by Big Daz
5.0 out of 5 stars
got to be welsh to appreciate this film
Twin town is a film that is mentioned most days by the welsh popularity. Everytime we watch it down here in sunny swansea it gets better. Read more
Published 3 months ago by bina
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tidy Town
Great film, very funny. Having grown up in south west Wales, it's more like a documentary than fiction, but more like Newport rather than Swansea.
Published 4 months ago by Rob Wright
3.0 out of 5 stars
quality fine
quality fine- film content a bit roobish, but still worth a watch if you are having a boring night in the house!
Published 4 months ago by kathryn carroll
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hotdogs for tea boys
what a funny film,nice that i recognise the place where its filmed but would recommend it if it was not.
Published 4 months ago by John A. G. Jefferies
5.0 out of 5 stars
Twin Town
This is an excellent film for Rhys Ifans fans or Welsh humor in general.
Adult viewing only - not for the whole family
Adult viewing only - not for the whole family
Published 4 months ago by Emz
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