Livestonth
I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
Sammy-Jo Cervantes
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
capone666
It's All Gone Pete TongAny music that you need to be near-death in order to listen to cannot be that good for you.Mind you, it's not the mollies that are ailing the DJ in this dramedy, well not entirely.Informed by his doctor that he is slowly going deaf, cocksure DJ Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye) refuses to listen to him, continuing to abuse drugs and carrying on with recording his new album.When he finally bottoms out, Frankie gets help from a lip-reading instructor (Beatriz Batarda) who shows him how to make music through the use of sight and touch.A darkly humored character study of an unlikeable jerk that also happens to be the quintessential EDM DJ movie, this Canadian-made Independent film strikes the perfect balance between goof- ball antics, deep-seated personal issues and a sick soundtrack.On the bright side, as a deaf artist you no longer have to listen criticism anymore.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca
SnoopyStyle
It's a mockumentary of DJ Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye) who is well known within the Ibiza club scene. He marries video vixen Sonja Slowinski (Kate Magowan). Then he disappears for a year. Nobody knows why, but he's actually gone deaf.I didn't like this style of mockumentary. It has those short interview clips to drive the narrative. Unless the individual characters are funny or crazy, it doesn't add any comedy to the movie. I'm not usually a fan of narrations, and this is the worst of them. Paul Kaye does an engrossing performance as the wild DJ. The biting satire of the clubing world doesn't always draw blood. But Kaye's performance does.
fedor8
Paul Kaye's TV show "Strutter" is great, so I was curious what this movie was like. I was disappointed that it isn't an all-out comedy, but some sort of mix of satire/parody and drama. Considering the world that is being spoofed, i.e. the shallow, moronic world of talentless "world-class" DJs (i.e. button-pressers), this could have been a great comedy in a "Spinal Tap" kind of vein. I have no idea why they opted to spend such a large chunk of the plot on the DJ's mostly drug-induced downfall. The problem was that there were too few gags overall. As in "Strutter", Kaye enjoys playing extremely decadent, on-the-edge-of-total-ruin, frustrated junkies/alcoholics, but in this movie he over-indulges, I got the feeling. The script was written as if to allow Kaye to have as much fun as he can, but the movie is less funny for it.On the other hand, Kaye is a very good actor and interesting to watch, if not always funny due to the movie's dramatic pretensions. Plus, the movie was not dull. There were some sporadic funny/amusing moments; the best one is when he tries to extinguish the fire-crackers he strapped onto his head, and when one of them launches. There were also some brighter moments in the recording studio.And, of course, the idea of a dumb DJ going deaf from all that noise, and then being able to record and perform in spite of total deafness, is a clever premise that mocks this idiotic scene. A logic/inconsistency problem, though, is that this DJ's character doesn't match that of who we're shown in the introduction. Drugs or no drugs, the DJ makes too big of a transformation once he goes deaf and then gets clean. First he is a moron and then he isn't. Would be okay for a comedy, but doesn't quite wash in a semi-drama.
polyethylene7
This film is hands down EXCELLENT. Perfect casting, great acting, funny and touching plot, and great script and cinematography. This is the best "mockumentary" I have seen, next to Spinal Tap, and anyone who enjoys FUBAR should see this movie (same director), and vice versa. You don't have to enjoy dance music to enjoy this film. The movie works on many levels: as an overall comedy parodying the lifestyle of an off-the-wall British DJ, as a commentary on the perils of hearing loss in the music business, as a mockery of the hedonistic, reckless lifestyle which pervades the island of Ibiza (all night partying, drinking, and snorting), and as a critique of wealth, materialism, and greed in the music industry. Mostly, however, this film is just enjoyable to watch and offers something to anyone with a good sense of humour and a penchant for the mockumentary genre. Plus, this film is (partly) a Canadian production, from a Canadian director! Vive le Canada!
