Just watched It’s All Gone, Pete Tong. It’s a dark comedy about the life of Ibiza DJ, Frankie Wild. The movie starts at the high point of Frankie’s life, while he’s married and surrounded with fame, money, drugs and women and then follows his slow decline as he goes deaf.
It was directed by Michael Dowse of Fubar fame, but the comedy of this movie is in the same vein only in its delivery. Essentially, funny characters doing ridiculous shit. The Fubar guys are in a few scenes as the Austrian metalheads that are collaborating with Frankie on his latest album, and their scenes are among some of the funniest in the movie. Paul Kaye was amazing as Frankie, but my favorite in this movie is easily Mike Wilmot as Max Haggar, Frankie’s manager. He steals just about every scene he’s in, and my only problem is that he wasn’t in more of them.There’s also plenty of appearances from real life DJs as themselves giving their thoughts on Frankie.
Basically, if you like the style of humor in comedies like Fubar or Napoleon Dynamite, you’ll dig this.
