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It's All Gone Pete Tong

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It's All Gone Pete Tong reviews
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8.8 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 22 critic reviews
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Based on 11 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Foreign

Written by: Michael Dowse

Directed by: Michael Dowse

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 15, 2005
DVD: September 20, 2005

Running Time: 90 minutes, Color

Origin: UK / Canada

Summary

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)

What The Critics Said

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80

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

The movie catches us up so profoundly in Frankie's self-destructive spiral (and gradual rehab), it's as though we’re seeing it all for the first time. I'd like to say that's because the story is true, only it isn't.

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75

New York Post Russell Scott Smith

"Trainspotting" redux.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The downward arc of the first two acts of the movie is made harrowing and yet perversely amusing by the performance of Paul Kaye.

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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

An acquired taste that you may not acquire. I did, but it took me a while.

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70

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

This is phony, absolutely, but the good feeling it leaves behind is plenty real.

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70

Washington Post Sean Daly

Like "This Is Spinal Tap," It's All Gone Pete Tong should have a long afterlife as a midnight-movie special.

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67

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

A smart albeit uneven jab at everything from the clubbing life to the male inclination toward Peter Pan.

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60

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

The British comic turned actor (Paul Kaye) appears in almost every scene and he carries that weight admirably. He manages the very neat trick of keeping you interested in a character who doesn't merit our affection but earns it nonetheless.

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60

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Australian mockumentary offers plenty of cheap laughs early on.

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60

Variety Dennis Harvey

Colorful, sometimes endearing but highly uneven picture.

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60

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Grounded by a gutsy, over-the-edge-and-back performance by Paul Kaye as Frankie, It's All Gone Pete Tong takes the long way around before finally redeeming itself.

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58

Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan

The only problem is that he's been such a shallow, ridiculous figure that exhuming any real sympathy for the guy is a Herculean task.

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50

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

Just inspiring enough, just scary enough, just sappy enough and just funny enough to get by.

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50

Miami Herald Peter Debruge

The entire movie rides on Paul Kaye's performance.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

It lacks the genuine wit to elevate it to a truly satirical level.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

If only any of it were funny.

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50

Village Voice Laura Sinagra

Lots of Dowse's ideas work well--the ringing tinnitus, the conversion of sound to visible waves, the trimming of treble and bass for underwatery effect, the removal of ambient noise entirely. But as the humor flags, It's All Gone Pete Tong starts to feel more like an exercise.

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50

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

The faux-documentary format does nothing for the material, but Kaye turns in a chaotic and ultimately moving performance.

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50

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

In addition to possessing the most confusing title of the year, Canadian filmmaker Michael Dowse's high-energy dance-club saga It's All Gone Pete Tong arrives in an elaborate package of spoof and deception that should win the admiration of any practical-joke connoisseur.

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40

Empire Nick De Semlyen

It's part satire of the drug-fuelled clubbing scene, part harrowing disability drama -- and almost entirely improvised.

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38

Boston Globe Janice Page

Isn't all wrong. But even at its very best, it's just all right.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

The mockumentary-style delivery of a serious subject proves to be an unworkable mash-up.

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What Our Users Said

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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