T2 Trainspotting

"You're an addict, so be addicted. Just be addicted to something else." Choose life, choose this.

I was fifteen when I saw 'Trainspotting.' The film had already been out ten years by then, but watching it was a subversive epiphany for a teenager in the suburbs of the Midwest. The soundtrack introduced me to Underworld and Lou Reed, I crushed hard on Kelly MacDonald, and the ending scene scored by 'Born Slippy' became an indelible reference point as I grew up and began things, and had to began them again. I watched and re-watched, fascinated by the characters' twisted passion when it came to heroin and Sean Connery, by the unflinching look at how addicts living hit to hit simultaneously challenge respectable society whose addictions are subtler and more socially sanctioned. Watching 'T2' was a strange experience - I had aged alongside the characters, no longer a kid but ambivalent about the nature and obligations of adulthood. Career? Accountability? Respectability? As we can imagine any of the main actors uttering, "F@#k that." Was the strangeness due to being "a tourist in my own memory" as Sick Boy accuses Renton of? What is honest reflection and what is indulgent nostalgia? Do we need to atone for our past mistakes and betrayals, and if so, how the hell does one do that? 'T2' draws from the original but wisely does not attempt to recreate its electrifying subversiveness (probably impossible). It succeeds as a soberer examination of the themes that was ecstatically embraced in the first film. At its best, 'T2' provokes viewers who have come of the age with 'Trainspotting' to reckon with their own lives, their complicities and complacencies, their subtle betrayals of others and themselves against their best attempts at love and selflessness. An amazing sequel to an unrepeatable original.

makes ypu smile with a fondness for the 90s , ticks every box

A worthy sequel to an iconic movie, its not as good as the first but that was impossible but it comes close and it's nice to get a sequel to a classic thats good and worthy. Loved spending time with these characters again now they're older and see that they pretty much haven't changed minus the skag and their dynamic and chemistry is still well and truly there despite 20 years passing, brilliantly shot flows by very well. Brilliant

this did not disappoint.

After seeing the original recently, I could see that this film was a labor of love for all involved. Satisfying for fans of the original, but it could have been cut down by probably 20 minutes.

After watching the first movie I definitely had to watch the next one. This is one of the not so many movies that are as good as the first, but to be honest I liked it even better. Once again very entertaining filled with great acting, plot and direction. Definitely a must watch.

A rather good sequel! 'T2 Trainspotting' is exactly what I expected it to be. Turns out, it was also exactly what I wanted it to be. I thought it was great! I mentioned in my review of the original that I didn't like the characters, at all. Whilst that is indeed the case for that film, in this follow-up it does a grand job at making you care for the main bunch more; well, aside from Franco but we don't talk about Franco. It probably is missing out on as much substance (pardon the pun), if only when compared to the 1996 flick, but evidently I'd argue it makes up for that with improved (harsh/wrong choice of word, perhaps) characterization. Even though I only watched the other movie for the first time a mere few hours prior, it was still cracking to see Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle back together in their respective roles - aged 'n all. I appreciate both films, albeit in different ways. This one I actually 'properly' enjoyed, whereas before it was more an appreciation of how effectively it was told. Terrific productions either way, really.

It's a weird but uniquely touching story. It is shot amazingly beautiful.

For those that are fans of the first movie, they did an awesome job of showing what the characters would be like and where they would be 20 yrs later. Danny Boyle, Irvine Welsh, and John Hodge did a remarkable job of creating a sequel that could stand alone as a movie without trying to recreate or copy from the original. This movie may actually have more emotional moments than the original.