Twin Town [VHS] [1997]: Llyr Ifans, Rhys Ifans, Dorien Thomas, Dougray Scott, Buddug Williams, Ronnie Williams, Huw Ceredig, Rachel Scorgie, Di Botcher, Mary Allen, Paul Durden, David Hayman, John Mathieson, Kevin Allen, Oral Norrie Ottey, Andrew Macdonald, Danny Boyle, Peter McAleese: Amazon.co.uk: Video

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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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Bryn Cartwright, a local roofing contractor and Rugby Club Chairman refuses to pay compensation to fatty Lewis, a man working for him when he falls off a ladder. Fatty's twin sons set out to get revenge for their father...

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My film of the decade, 6 Sep 2002

By	"northcoteho" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Twin Town [DVD] [1997] (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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This film is pure quality., 7 Mar 2003

By	"duffboygrim" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Twin Town [DVD] [1997] (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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars an ugly, lovely movie..., 7 Dec 2003

By	Elizabeth Moriarty (Swansea) - See all my reviews

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!