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It's All Gone Pete Tong
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MPAA RATING: R for pervasive drug and alcohol abuse, language and some sexual content/nudity
Starring Paul Kaye, Mike Wilmot, Beatriz Batarda, Kate Magowan, and Pete Tong
This film is a hilarious insiders look at a club and rave culture most people don't get to experience. (Matson Films)
| GENRE(S): | Comedy | Foreign |
| WRITTEN BY: | Michael Dowse |
| DIRECTED BY: | Michael Dowse |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 20, 2005 Theatrical: April 15, 2005 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | UK / Canada |
Best Canadian Feature Film, 2004 Toronto International Film Festival
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The average user rating for this movie is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Doug B. gave it a10:
Will go down as a cult classic. Paul Kaye strangles his part to death and you just have to love it: he was born to play Frankie Wilde. [***SPOILERS***] Sure it gets a bit soft at the end, but you feel for Frankie and want him to end up with the deaf bird. A great supporting cast and hilarious set-pieces (the Austrians in the studio; the manager's sweaty rants against...heat; even a deft send-up of Victoria Beckham by Kate Magowan as Frankie's wife). Loved the soundtrack, laughed happily through the film. Don't know what that says about me, but that's my kind of entertainment.
Kelly M. gave it a10:
This is very moving film that looks into the dept of our everyday club-nightlife, showing us just how altering it can become. Focusing on the extentsive damage it does that most us are aware of yet continuesously dismiss. That life style creates an extrodenary level of enjoymment to the point that it out-weighs any other alternative around us. The power it has over the mind pushes you into an unconsious spiral of thoughts which eventually blinds you from anything other than itself. This movie goes into the detail of these issues that we know extist yet prefer to ignore, not even giving it the chance for us to deeply understand just what horrifing things it can lead to, that and the fact we choose to dis-believe due to our own ignorance and temptations. After watching this film it opens your mind to the over-whelming consequnces of what's possible, that once again you can't help but to disbelieve such awful things can happen. For any punter cruising along the social scene of nightlife the film is a must see! It will open you to think differently bout the film itself and how you can relate to your own life.
Sidney O. gave it a10:
This movie is tops. I like it almost as much as I like Requiem for a Dream.
yorkie p. gave it a5:
The phrase “it’s all gone Pete Tong”, nothing to do with the dj Pete Tong, is cockney slang for “it’s all gone horribly wrong.” The film It’s All Gone Pete Tong is also nothing to with Pete Tong, though he does appear in a brief cameo, but it is about another Ibiza club legend, a fictionalised and barely plausible character called Frankie Wilde. You might be confused already and watching the film isn’t much better. The narrative, like the main character – an over-the-top alcoholic, substance abusing dj, living for a decade on Ibizia – falls repeatedly between stools. At first it’s a Spinal Tap styled mockumentary about hedonistic clubbers with over-the-top characters and comedy skit dialogue, then, it’s a manic tale of spiralling self-abuse, following Frankie’s demise, which is more to do with going deaf than getting “munted”, then, finally, it’s a tale of redemption as the now-deaf dj triumphs against the odds to, em, still be a dj, (is that an unsubtle dig at djs’ talents or dance fans’ tastes?) with a nice dollop of honest romance thrown in for good measure. Paul Kaye is fantastic as Frankie, even when he’s fighting a hallucinated life-size badger, the director Michael Dowse pulls out a few slick tricks on the differing perceptions of deafness, and also featuring mock-interviews with Carl Cox amongst others, but in the end, you wouldn’t really Adam and Eve it, would you? By Yorkie Pittstop
Stefan C. gave it a10:
I love this movie.
JT Stevenson gave it a10:
One of my favorite movies of the year, a movie that sent me through huge highs and low lows. The soundtrack is kickace. I can see how some would not enjoy this movie, but for anyone who appriciates the club culture and what comes with that will love it. As well the cameo by the two numbnuts from FUBAR will have you laughing quite hard.
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