Forgettable songs make this a bad trip
2 / 10
Written by Welsh and directed by Caroline Jay Ranger, the story appears chopped up so that one scene is disconnected to the next, the story bitty, the well-known scenes and lines rattled off as if from a Trainspotting-branded assembly line, albeit in a different order: first the group trip to Blackpool for a northern soul gig, then the various set-pieces, from the speed-fuelled job interview by Spud (Kieran Andrew) to the snooker-table violence from Begbie (Frankie O’Connor) and Renton’s toilet high – the latter made more vivid with the use of back screens (video design by Douglas O’Connell).
