Spun

It will come as little surprise that Jonas Åkerlund's background is in music video as this hyperactive druggie comedy with music by Billy Corgan is clearly intended to appeal to dope-addled MTV geeks. Whilst starting with much promise Åkerlund is unable to match the pace and pizzaz of the opening scene and the film settles down into a deadly conventional storyline that character-wise shoots its load too early.

Jason Schwartzman plays a middle-class crystal meth addict whose habit has led him into the arms of a hopeless bunch of drug-fucked losers played by a diverse cast of relatively well-known names including John Leguizamo, Mena Suvari (so this is what becomes of American Beauty?), and Mickey Rourke,with Deborah Harry as a dyke running a phone sex business.

More indebted to the sophmoronic rocks-off humour of Animal House than the tradition of far more intriguing Adventures in Drugland such as Buffalo 66, Spun is a series of funny-sick gags with a perfunctory narrative that exhausts its potential by about half-time.

 

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