The title of this film mislead me into thinking it would be an Irish 'Human Traffic' or 'SW7' but after the first ten minutes I realised I was sadly mistaken. Disco Pigs is a cross between an angst ridden, student film and a self indulgent fringe play that I had to force myself to sit through. It opens well, with a nicely photographed sequence in which real babies appear to act. The cast are promising and the young director has done a reasonable job given Enda Walsh's ill concieved script. But at the end of the day to a paying audience that want to be entertained, Disco Pigs is an ordeal to watch and I was surprised to see it was made by established producers Stephen Evans and Angus Finney and financed by the flush Rennaisance Films. How wrong headed can the establishment be to waste money on dross like this when there are plenty of other scripts and film-makers out there far more worthy . Films of a similar theme, but also successful are Sean Penn's 'She's So Lovely' , Peter Jackson's 'Beautiful Creatures' and Suri Krishnamma's 'New Years Day'.
Review of Disco Pigs
