Twin Town

The film has everything you'd want it to have. Especially if you're British. Probably more of a bloke's film, but still fun for everyone.The story is brilliant, and so accurately welsh. Every minor detail adds to the whole experience. The... Full review

Wonderful movie. Just brilliant.Fantastic script, odd , quirky , original and hilarious.Great to see some movies in Wales for a change.I am not Welsh but always find them hilarious weird and very unique.Best Welsh film Zulu great acting too from... Full review

Darkly amusing (dark comedy if you're English) about a dodgy cop using spoof scenes from great and famous movies. Such scenes with the poodle reflects the horse in the godfather and the another scene is the Karaoke Bar and the... Full review

It's quite nice to see how good this film is when you think about it. A lot of people don't really know much about Welsh films and to be honest it's because there isn't that many unless there are in... Full review

Being a Swansea girl originally, I had no trouble in deciphering the accents...Swansea is indeed an Ugly, Lovely City, and the stark and honest portrayal of life in the dull valleys of south Wales, where unemployment is high, was a... Full review

What a film! It was hyped up during it's release, so when I saw it, I understood why! It's set in Swansea, (Only 8 miles from where I live!), so I could really connect with the surroundings and the larger... Full review

Never listen to either your friends or the media when it comes to films. I was put off watching "Twin town" by various people because they called it "a poor Welsh trainspotting" - The only connection is that both films... Full review

It is a good film, worth seeing I guess, but it was let down by the poor ending. It has the feel of an ending that was cut down to fit a set length to the film. Also, the ending... Full review

Very very funny.A sleeper hiding in the dusty back shelves of the video store, that I took out one night with curiosity and no expectations. I'm three-quarters English, a quarter Welsh and have spent a long time in Australia, but... Full review

Twin Town cannot be mentioned in the same breath as Trainspotting, simply because it is a completely different film, the fact that they are both set in squalid urban surroundings and involve drugs is incidental. Twin Town is basically a... Full review

Twin Town is a very nasty film whose principal characters, from bent cops to vile adolescents, are not the stuff of conventional cinema. But then Twin Town is not entirely conventional, and while it occasionally goes off the rails at times, this boldly frenetic and raw Welsh comedy is far more satisfying than what appears on the surfaceHilarious, dark and even poetic, Twin Town is irresistible in its entertainment and its raw sense of character. ... Full Review

It's not just that there's no one to care about in "Twin Town," much less someone to like The movie plainly understood that pleasure often has nothing to do with morality, but it also identified the cruelties its characters committed on others, or on themselves, and allowed those characters their pain. ... Full Review

In "Twin Town," there's no love lost. Twin Town" is overly plotty, which is OK. Instead, it has remained a self-contained masterpiece, and its genre has degenerated into something stale, like the voluminous cigarette smoke that clouds its frames. ... Full Review

Twin Town'' is a perplexing import. Credit the success of ``Trainspotting'' for this one, a brash black comedy about a bunch of unsavory characters in Swansea, Wales. ... Full Review

Twin Town contents itself with a zany pre-movie public-service announcement explaining that, accustomed as Americans are to a mish-mash of dialect, a bit of Welsh shouldn't bother us. You find yourself repelled by the nastiness while being drawn in by the smart dialogue and kaleidoscopic imagery. ... Full Review

TWIN TOWN Llyr Evans, Rhys Ifans (1997, PolyGram, R, $96.99) The existence of Twin Town must pain the tourism bureau of Swansea, South Wales: If we're to believe the evidence presented here, every one of its inhabitants is an immoral,... ... Full Article

Twin Town: Double Trouble With "Trainspotting" producers Andrew MacDonald and Danny Boyle behind the scenes, the analogy is predictable: "Twin Town" is a Welsh "Trainspotting." ... Full Article

In the tradition of Trainspotting, the black Welsh comedy Twin Town contains one of the most ingenious revenge plots of recent memory involving a pair of the screen's nastiest adolescents. ... Full Article

producer and director, respectively, of "Trainspotting".Actually, the twins of the title are more like a cross between "A Clockwork Orange" gang and Cheech and Chong. ... Full Article