It’s All Gone Pete Tong Review

It's All Gone Pete Tong
Superstar DJ Frankie Wilde (Kaye) loses his hearing and his mind amid the crazed decadence of the White Isle.

by Nick de Semlyen |
Published on
Release Date:

27 May 2005

Running Time:

92 minutes

Certificate:

15

Original Title:

It’s All Gone Pete Tong

Want to grab the attention of the Ecstasy generation? Easy - just christen your movie with the rhyming-slang phrase that's put Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong (house music's eternally-up-for-it answer to Steve Wright) in the OED. Party people be warned, though. Michael Dowse's follow-up to rock spoof FUBAR may be set in Ibiza and feature a 'coke-badger', but this is no cheeky, hedonistic comedy romp. Instead, it's part satire of the drug-fuelled clubbing scene, part harrowing disability drama - and almost entirely improvised. Kaye fares surprisingly well as the Ibitha legend who realises his life as he knows it - drugs, dancing drinking and... endlessy shagging, is going to fade along with his aural abilities.

There are some powerful moments, but the film follows Frankie's lead in losing the plot - too dark for casual viewers (or fans of Tong), too blunt to succeed as cult viewing.
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