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.

Matt_Layden With It's All Gone Pete Tong, director Michael Dowse gives us a funny, original and heartwarming mockumentary. It's All Gone Pete Tong tells the story of a DJ who is addicted to drugs and alcohol, yet people call his music brilliant. Years and years of playing next to speakers have done considerably damage to his ears leaving him deaf. His career ends and he secludes himself in his house. People think he has gone insane, until he meets a young woman who is also deaf, who teaches him how to read lips. They fall in love and he gets his career back by using the vibration of sound to record new music.The film is character centric, as we follow the main character from stardom to his falling and rise again. When we are first introduced to Frankie, the main character, he is an egocentric drug user. Qualities that usually are liked in people, but as the film goes on he loses all of these things and he get to know Frankie on a more personal level.The scene involving his kick of his drug addiction is both hilarious and frightening. Michael Dowse disguises a lot of dramatic tension and themes under a comedic tone. Drug addiction, disability and infidelity are all present in this film, but Dowse uses them in a comedic way that it doesn't seem out of place with the rest of the film.Paul Kaye is tremendous as Frankie. The entire film rests of his shoulders and he pulled off a comedic and depressing performance all in one. The entire soundtrack, with the exception of some classic scores, is mainly techno. It fits the theme and story of the film well. I believe the use of classical was a creative choice by the filmmakers because Frankie uses vibrations from the sound to create music, much like Beethoven did with his piano. I immediately saw a connection between the two and when classical music began playing it confirmed it.It's All Gone Pete Tong is a comedic film that not only has laughs, but life lessons as well. Many of its themes are multi-layered as are the main character's conflicts. I had never seen or heard of this film before, but am glad that we were able to watch the entire film.

Minstrelo A visually-based comedy with Paul Kaye as an Ibiza DJ going through a crisis did not immediately stand out to me as an appealing prospect, I must say, and it's testament to Dowse that he could pull it off with such class, especially with it being his first major project. Kaye had become an increasingly dreary presence on UK TV, even hosting a particularly awful game-show on the BBC for a short time I seem to recall, just one of a sizeable host of incumbent, tired hacks on the British television scene, and as much he may well admit.It was interesting, then, to see him take on the role of a renowned DJ, a profession that can offer much by way of booty, but that is not traditionally credited as being one requiring much musical talent, perhaps unfairly. Though the film makes light fun of the DJs place in the music industry, (Kaye goes deaf from over-indulgence of all kinds, but somehow managed to climb his way back to the top of the scene) it also seeks out and finds a genuine place whereby a DJ can be as intuitive and soulful as any other kind of musician. Therein lies the success of It's All Gone Pete Tong, to be so convincingly two things at once, and for them to not collide in the least, as so often happens in comedies that attempt to convey some semblance of human understanding, or those which aspire to inspire us. Kaye was excellently endearing as Wilde, and just as often hilarious with all of his perfectly selected facial expressions and tone of delivery. He plays his first attempt to order a drink while deaf with comic perfection.The film satirises, to an extent, standard tragicomedy motifs, especially those dealing with a man's battle with himself (the excess scenes with the cocaine badger were particularly hilarious), and all at the same time, it is a film works in its own terms as a tragicomedy, and a moving tale of creativity and possibility. The life Frankie Wilde leads in the early parts of the film can seem crushing, and it can seem rapturous. It's all a cycle, until his life catches up with him, though not in the most clichéd and predictable way, but in that he actually starts to go deaf, and the only sense he owns which he can make sense of is lost to him.Of course, he learns to adapt his other senses to supplement the loss, but none of this is presented in the most melodramatic fashion, nor is it exploitative.At one point he goes to meet a woman who will instruct him how to read lips, and communicate intelligibly, and in that sense she teaches not to understand again, but for the first time. He meets her outside some pristine white building, in a quiet location on the island, a haven away from the deadening rush of people.The soundtrack is excellent and, as it is largely made up of non-clubbing songs, it serves a similar purpose to that of the sweet woman who serves as Frankie's guide and haven, and who will eventually become his girlfriend, in a very moving while at times confused relationship. She helps him up from his fall, to rise again to DJing success, but in satisfactory fashion he shuns his career as soon as he reaches the peak of it again, as he has been bestowed with a true gift, that of perspective.The natural setting is beautiful of course, but the cinematography is such as to find beauty in all the dirty pockets of Ibiza, and every aspect of Frankie's ostensibly pathetic life.I love this film, and I'm quite serious.

Eric Scicluna I think its one of the best movies iv'e ever seen, And it together with school of rock are ranked as my favorite 2 movies..Pete tong's Freaking great man ! His Sickness .... WOW ROCKS !I Love movies containing club business, And the tropical Ibiza islands with all that party stuff ... It's great. Then what about the storyline?? The character rocks and even the story based on true... The sound effects deaf from one ear.. That makes you go crazy and feel in in the movie The music makes you go crazyThen WILDE destroying the apparatus and what about drugs ?? The little bear he has making him sniff and smokeThe celebration of the feeling of music stuff and his movements on stage Even the way the people feels when he is introduced.His woman and son ... Maybe love maybe problems. Not enough in my post??? SEE IT Just good good to see... PLS SUPPORT THIS MOVIE