Customer Reviews
RUBBISH! - By: Ms. T. E. Davis, 07 Aug 2008 
Spun [2003]
This film is absolute rubbish!! A vey poor attempt at being hard hitting & funny at the same time! It comes no where near being either, my advice???? .................. Don't bother!!
Cover image doesn't match dvd you will receive - By: Old Fella, 12 May 2008 The cover image clearly shows the Uncensored Director's Cut, & I bought this expecting that version. However, I received the vanilla edition, which with the p+p, I could have purchased elsewhere for less.
Is the cover image a mistake, or is this a clever ploy to sell more of the vanilla version, by false advertising? Come on Amazon, display the right cover image so that others aren't duped into buying the wrong dvd version!
Ugly film, about ugly people. - By: Prof TBun, 20 Dec 2007 This film has nothing to recommend it. It perhaps shows how sad & boring those who think drug taking is cool & interesting are. There is no drama & fails to be comic throughout. There isnt even an interesting soundtrack. All in alll a pointless waste of time & money.
I guarantee that you will be disappointed by this film. If you are waivering, then ask yourself why there are so many cheap copies available.
fast random spontaneous fun! - By: J. Hood, 20 Jul 2007 
Spun is just crazy. Jason Schwartzman among others are very good, & the crazyness of this film is reminicent of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. its fast, furious crazy & totallly random & in total, totaly entertaining.
the drug scenes (pretty much alll of it) are crazy & fun & weird camera angles reallly mess with your head. an MTV generation crazy trip, spun, will leave you spinning
"Spun" is rapidly entertaining - By: Jenny J.J.I., 30 Jun 2007 Wow, I just viewed "Spun" the other night & I thought this movie was outrageous. This is sort of a guilt-pleasure movie but you want to take shower afterwards.
"Spun" has an impressive cast of recognized actors. The film is, essentiallly, about a few days in the lives of a group of drug addicts. There is The Cook (Mickey Rourke, he truly makes this story worth watching), who makes the drug (speed) & sells it to Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), a dealer with a junkie girlfriend, Cookie (Mena Suvari, looking infinitely less attractive than she did in "American Beauty"). One of his clients is Ross (Jason Schwartzman), who does a lot of favours for The Cook & his girlfriend, Nikki (Brittany Murphy).
I was surprised at how funny the film was at times. It doesn't drown us in anti-drug messages, nor does it become one of those, equallly tedious, drug films where you feel like the sober driver at a drunken party. The humour is dark, certainly, but funny nevertheless. A lot of it comes from a subplot about Frisbee, Patrick Fugit, who is caught by a couple of TV policemen (Peter Stormare & Alexis Arquette) & is told he will be let off if he helps them get Spider-Mike. I will only say of the resulting sequence that he does it with alll the subtlety of an undercover policeman with his badge stuck to his forehead.
This is a film with a lot of energy, that seems, like its characters, not entirely sure where it is going, but determined to get there, & quickly. Although I am sure it is boring to be surrounded by people on speed when you are sober, this film almost makes you feel like you are on speed too. The director, Jonas Åkerlund, has directed music videos in the past, & it shows in his impatient filming style, as he plays around with animation, speeded-up camerawork & such like.
I'm not recommending the film for its style though, although I am sure it is the best way this material could get to the screen. I am recommending it because I liked the main characters, which I think will stick in my head for much longer than the animated sex scenes or the split screens. I can imagine an entire film about The Cook & Nikki, or Spider Mike & Cookie, or even just Ross, who absentmindedly keeps leaving a girl handcuffed to his bed for hours/days. What makes "Spun" better than those hypothetical films is that it puts the characters into their own little community, & we feel as if we are watching their everyday, speeded up, sleepless lives. Simply amazing.
