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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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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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.
25 of 27 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.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Rude and crude with a realistic black humour. This film is almost a film of two halves; the first introduces the main characters with all their flaws and soft-drug taking habits. The "twins" of the title are two lads whose main interest it seems, is smoking as much as much marijuana as is humanly possible, eating as many magic mushrooms as they can lay their hands on and stealing "hot" cars to drive around in.
At first, it may seem a film akin to "Trainspotting" but don't be fooled; this is very different and the plot takes a different tack half way through when the comedy side dies and events conspire to move the plot in a grimmer and much harder direction.
A very quotable film - most of which cannot be repeated here - with a good, solid story line and a sense of humour which, while certainly not to everyone's taste, is bound to raise a wry smile or two. The easily offended need not apply.
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Fantastic, funny and sometimes sad film about two Welsh brothers and their antics. Watched this many years ago and it still makes me laugh!
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Glad I could get on Dvd as owned on video back in the day, some classic one liners, love it!! Came pretty quick with super saver delivery
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What is there to say, this is an ace film :D
The product was brand new and arrived in excellent time
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The product was brand new and arrived in excellent time
Well worth the money
Published 11 months ago by NaffNaff
Classic
I was reccomended this film by a friend and loved it.It is funny and shocking in equal measure. 5 stars from me!
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Published 14 months ago by archer1960
Great film! So funny!
I was in stitches if it wasn't the funny story line it was the way they said words or the welsh saying!!!
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Bought this as we loved Very Annie Mary. What a mistake - If they took the F... word out of this film it would only last 40 minutes. Give it a miss and buy Very Annie Mary.
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