Brilliant!

20 years on we find Renton in Amsterdam with a job, wife and running addiction, but with looming divorce, redundancy and the death of his mother he heads home to Edinburgh.

Begbie in jail plots an escape, Sickboy is involved running a pub and a little extortion and Spud is still caught in the cycle of recovery and relapse.

The pace of this film does not match the first, it is a much more nuanced, pedestrian pace but does have it bursts of exhilaration.

Nostalgia plays a big part with flashbacks and nods to the original, but it is a lot more than a nostalgia fest, our players have evolved and matured at least in part and there can be little denial we are watching the same characters that captured our hearts over two decades ago.

The Renton/Sickboy relationship is central to this sequel, but it is Spud's story that will capture your heart.
When money threatens to once again present an opportunity for betrayal between Mark and Simon Spud steps up to take away the temptation.

Spud takes to writing down personal stories and looks to collate them into a book and everyone who read them has an emotional response even Begbie.

There will be plenty of detractors to this sequel, no doubt already armed with the hackneyed "Not as good as the first" but this is a story in it's own right and if Danny Boyle's intention was to make people happy he has surely been successful in that regard.

A great sequel to a brilliant original that demands a third instalment...I just don't hope we have to wait 20 years for Trainspotting 3!

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