In T2 Trainspotting, Neither Danny Boyle Nor His Heroes Want to Grow Up

Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle in T2: Trainspotting. Photo: Jaap Buitendijk/TriStar Pictures

Danny Boyle continues to be our most dazzling shallow director, and his brilliance is undimmed in the sequel to his 1996 breakthrough, Trainspotting. The new film is called T2 Trainspotting — not to be confused with the Schwarzenegger T2 — and it’s more fun than a barrel of junkies. It doesn’t have the youthful kick of its predecessor, but given the pervasiveness of addiction and suicidal ideation and despair it’s amazingly buoyant. Boyle makes movies about downer subjects — the downers in this case are literal

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