TWIN TOWN
Welsh Beavis and Butthead — crude revenge without redemptive purpose.
Should You Watch It?
TWIN TOWN has a few craft strengths. Its rollicking musical score mixes punk rock, pop rock, show tunes, and Welsh piping bands, and the cinematography is good.
But those qualities cannot redeem the film’s content or message. The story presents low-class, drug-addicted brothers taking creative revenge on a wealthy local bigwig, while filling the journey with obscenities, immorality, drug use, car-stealing, drug-dealing, animal torture, and murder. The film’s claim that the criminal antics highlight the absurdity of revenge does not overcome its implicit glamorization of that revenge.
The practical answer is simple: skip it.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESIn Swansea, Wales, a wealthy roofing contractor refuses to compensate an injured employee. The man’s shiftless, drug-addicted sons respond with an escalating revenge campaign against him and his family. Their feud grows entangled with local criminals and corrupt policemen, turning a family grievance into a violent black comedy about class resentment and getting away with wrongdoing.
Is It Any Good?
Two stars means TWIN TOWN has limited entertainment value despite a few effective elements. The musical score creatively mixes punk rock, pop rock, show tunes, and Welsh piping bands. The cinematography is also good.
The story, however, is a disgusting hodgepodge of foul-mouthed revenge-taking. The anti-heroes are deeply unattractive leading men, and the film’s heavy obscenity is unnecessary to telling the story. Whatever energy the movie has is overwhelmed by its crude material and morally empty plotting.
The Worldview
TWIN TOWN grows out of post-Thatcher resentment of the rich and presents an anarchistic vision of poor people taking revenge on wealthy people if they can avoid being caught. Its central moral distortion is that revenge becomes creative, entertaining, and somehow justified by class resentment.
The film’s publicists say the criminal antics expose the absurd nature of revenge. Yet the review finds that the movie implicitly glamorizes the very behavior it claims to mock. It removes accountability from the center of the story and replaces justice with retaliation. That conflicts with Scripture’s warning: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay” (Romans 12:19).
The film’s underlying warning is therefore not redemptive. People reap what they sow, and mocking God’s law has eternal consequences. Scripture gives the better answer to injustice: “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God” (Romans 12:19).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
. Pagan worldview of escalating revenge feud between low-class drug-addicted brothers & a wealthy upper-class local bigwig; 220 obscenities & 7 profanities; severed dog’s head found in a bed, family blown up in a violent explosion, father slaps daughter & wife, cops torture innocent scapegoats, & man hung to death in his own garage; four acts of fornication; and, rear & upper male & female nudity; & two men urinate on a woman on a nightclub stage
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Why does Scripture forbid personal revenge, even when someone has genuinely been wronged?
Romans 12:19 · Proverbs 20:22How can a story make sinful behavior seem entertaining or justified, even while claiming to criticize it?
Isaiah 5:20 · Philippians 4:8What does it mean to trust God with justice instead of trying to settle every wrong ourselves?
Deuteronomy 32:35 · 1 Peter 2:23How should resentment toward wealth or social inequality be answered without excusing evil?
James 2:1–9 · Micah 6:8The Final Word
TWIN TOWN has good cinematography and an inventive musical score, but its crude revenge, immoral content, and implicit message make it a poor use of your time and money. For your family, the answer is SKIP IT. Choose something better instead:
