The main players that lived through the first film are all back and Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie are as dysfunctional as ever. The story set twenty years later borrows heavily from the novels Trainspotting and Porno. Boyle’s technique of injecting scenes from the original work gives T2 a strong and believable link to the past. This continuity does author Irvine Welsh proud.

The story revolves around Renton (Ewan McGregor) returning to his old stomping grounds twenty years after he did his mates dirty and his return in most instances is most unwelcome. It’s amusing to find out where these iconic characters have ended up after two decades of that thing called life.

Getting the balance correct between the grey and grainy back story and the high energy onslaught of both sight and sound in the new edition highlights Boyle’s mastery of the subject matter. It’s been a long twenty years but T2 Trainspotting has been more than worth the wait.

Rob Hudson
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First there was an opportunity….then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home.

They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorry, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.

Director Danny Boyle reunites the original cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle – IN CINEMAS FEBRUARY 23.