5/5 Suprisingly uplifting movie
  by Jaime Moreno (Farmersville,CA)
I first got this movie just because I knew it was recorded in Ibiza with all the clubs I've always wanted to visit on holiday but in the end I found it to be deeper than that. Instead of just the typical drugs, music, sex, etc that you expect in a clubbing movie it actually delivers an uplifting story of someone who hits rocks bottom and then lifts themself out of the darkness. Whenever I feel down and blue I can just watch this movie and it makes my day just like I first time I watched it.
That's why I had to get another copy after I lent my first one out and it was never returned:( It's that good since I never ever watch the same movie twice let alone buy 2 copies of it!


5/5 awesome story
  by J. Gene Porter
This movie had excellent production, great performers, a kick ass soundtrack, and a awesome story.
It was a great story about the rise and fall of a DJ who loses his hearing and has to learn to deal with what has happened to him.
I reccomend this movie to anyone who likes the music, scene, lifestyle, and culture.

5/5 Great Movie
  by Leonardo Reyes Perez (Costa Rica)
I saw it and said it's a great story even tough is fiction is great! I recommend it of any music lover not only clubbing lovers to because at the end is the music what matters!

5/5 Love it!
  by D. Walruff (Kansas City, MO)
Great movie! It's funny, it's sad, it's serious and silly. Also the soundtrack is awesome and fun. I highly recommend watching the movie with the volume turned all the way up. The cast is brilliant and convincing.

3/5 They told me Frankie's story--and although the penny dropped...
  by Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service)
It's All Gone Pete Tong certainly is an unusual title for a movie; and that's certainly one of the reasons I chose to watch and review this film. We get a mock biopic of a young DJ on the Spanish island of Ibiza. Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye) is a DJ who lives for the club scene where he is a prominent, wildly successful DJ--and surrounds himself with friends who only like him when things are going his way. Yep, he gets married to a model who works with him in one of his music videos and they adopt a son; but his happiness and the wild ride of fame only lasts so long.

Things change radically for Frankie when he goes deaf after too much loud music in night clubs and a wild lifestyle that his doctor tells him didn't exactly help, either. Frankie's so-called friends rapidly abandon him; even his wife supermodel wife Sonja (Kate Magowan) and their son leave him for one of Frankie's friends! The record companies and the discos soon abandon him also because, after all, when you're deaf you just might not stay on top of the heap as a hot, hot, hot DJ.

Frankie slips into total despair and fantasizes about being chased by a bear in a apron when he is on one of his countless drug trips; and it is only when he thinks to learn to read lips does the possibility of making a comeback seem real to Frankie. With the help of a woman who works at a lip reading school for the deaf (Penelope, played by Beatriz Batarda), Frankie regains his ability to be a top notch, in demand DJ once more.

Questions remain, though--will Frankie want this lifestyle back? What happens to him and Penelope--or will Sonja come back to him once again now that can make tons of money? No plot spoilers here, folks--but there's an ending that I admit did make me smile.

To its credit, the movie uses real life DJs and people in the business to make the pretend biopic as realistic as possible. However, although this film purports to be a comedy, I just didn't laugh that much when I saw it. It's not really all that funny except for a few chuckles here and there; and the disability issue Frankie copes with detracts from any true comedy that they may have tried to produce.

There are a few extras but the best is the "making of" featurette.

Overall, It's All Gone Pete Tong is a movie you can watch when nothing better is on TV. No, it's certainly NOT the worst flick I've ever seen; but it just didn't strike me as being that funny. The acting is just OK and the cinematography was average. Save this one for a rainy day when you're bored with nothing else better to do. It's just average, folks!