Right...first of all, and this is CRUCIAL, hmmmm?! Bin any bullshit you've heard about Twin Town being the Welsh Trainspotting as it is a thousand, zillion times a better film. It bothers with such niceties as a storyline and plot twists, for a start!!! Trainspotting was a good film - in it's day - but unlike Twin Town it's aged really badly.
From the start of the credits, which shows Swansea bay and then pans up the hill to uplands, showing all manner of local characters, I was howling with laughter...I used to live in Swansea and I think the whole thing depicts "The Pretty Shitty City" in a fairly accurate manner. In fact, I used to live round the corner from the opening scene was shot...'Fatty's Boys' practically bouncing down a hill in a stolen car...a regular sight off screen too! The boys' antics shows that the Chav was alive and well long before the GLC reared their sun-visored heads...from a sister who works at the local massage parlour (as a receptionist, mind!) and bath-time bongs to a pet dog called Cantona...all the signs are there! The film also boasts a crazily eclectic soundtrack - I defy any fellow Welshie to now set foot on the Kingsway without Downtown resounding in their head! Ending with SFA's "Bad Behaviour" was a stroke of genius - did you know, fact fans, Rhys Ifans (a man who could snap my knicker elastic at 40 paces!) was once a member of the 'Furries?? He was kicked out "else they'd all be dead!" Anyway...I digress...if wittering was an Olympic sport I would win gold for my country every time! WATCH THE DAMN FILM YOU WON'T REGRET IT!