Film: T2 Trainspotting

Trainspotting, a dark comedy about acid house and heroin addiction in Edinburgh in the late 1980s, struck a chord with a whole generation. It became a cult classic, just like Irvine Welsh's scabrous novel on which it was based.

Welsh wrote a sequel, Porno, but this entertaining film sequel draws very little from the second book. We do see the same characters – greyer but not much wiser – reunited twenty years later. Renton and Sick Boy want to use project subsidies to convert a dank pub into a sauna, the junkie Spud has literary ambitions, and the psychotic Begbie is out for revenge.

Danny Boyle's visual drive is just as frenzied as last time and the dynamic script saves him from turning the characters into tourists in their own long-lost youths. T2 is neither as sharp in its social commentary nor as ground-breaking as its predecessor, but at least this sequel has integrity – with music by Young Fathers and Fat White Family – rather than lazy nostalgia.

> UK, 2017, dir.: Danny Boyle, act.: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, 117 min.
> Kinepolis, UGC De Brouckère, UGC Gulden Vlies/Toison d'Or, White Cinema