Review of It's All Gone Pete Tong

I cannot say that I have ever been a clubber, but I loved this film. It is less "Human Traffic" and more "Spinal Tap", perhaps even funnier than Tap. The plot concerns a superstar DJ on the Spanish island clubbing mecca of Ibeza, who becomes completely deaf after many years of excessive noise, drugs and general abuse. The mock-documentary charts both his decline and then his subsequent coming to terms with his "condition". It may not sound like a premise for comedy, but It's All Gone Pete Tong is often laugh-out loud hilarious. In particular, there is a sequence with the temporarily insane and desperate DJ involving fireworks and a swimming pool which manages to convey visual slapstick simultaneously with the very blackest of black comedy. I loved it. In short, this is destined to become a long term cult British movie, which may well prove to be a massive hit. I hope so. Oh, there's an unusual feelgood ending too. Go see it.