History YMMV / T2Trainspotting

* {{Narm}}:
** For some, Rents complaining about social media, reality TV, zero hours contracts, etc. in the form of the first film's "Choose life" rant smacks of similar old man rants which everyone and his dog can do and has done. This is made slightly uncomfortable when one thinks of the fact that the actors and crew are aging and still trying to stay relevant in modern times.
** The numerous {{call back}}s are also a little too on-the-nose and cutesy for some people, who wish that the creators had mined other inspiration rather than coasting on nostalgia too much.
** The idea of Spud writing a novel based on his life and friends, and having it be ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'', is a bit rich for some. Especially when Begbie loves it. And especially when it is reused in the novel ''Literature/DeadMensTrousers''. It's a weird level of meta that doesn't work for everyone.
** The toilet from the ending (you'll understand if you see it) looks incredibly light, and obviously a prop... And that's even before you see an emaciated, two-decade heroin addict haul it around.

* {{Narm}}: For some, Rents complaining about social media, reality TV, zero hours contracts, etc. in the form of the first film's "Choose life" rant smacks of similar old man rants which everyone and his dog can do and has done. This is made slightly uncomfortable when one thinks of the fact that the actors and crew are aging and still trying to stay relevant in modern times.
** The numerous [[CallBack call backs]] are also a little too on-the-nose and cutesy for some people, who wish that the creators had mined other inspiration rather than coasting on nostalgia too much.
** The idea of Spud writing a novel based on his life and friends, and having it be Trainspotting, is a bit rich for some. Especially when Begbie loves it. And especially when it is reused in the novel Dead Men's Trousers. It's a weird level of meta that doesn't work for everyone.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Now has its own page,[[Tearjerker/T2Trainspotting here]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/WolfAlice Silk, which plays just before the credits and in the trailers for the film.

* Tearjerker: Now has its own page,[[Tearjerker/T2Trainspotting here]]

Tearjerker/T2Trainspotting

** The numerous [[CallBack call backs]] are also a little too on-the-nose and cutesy for some people, who wish that the creators had mined other inspiration rather than coasting on nostalgia too much.

** The numerous [[CallBack call backs]] are also a little too on-the-nose and cutesy for some people, who wish that the creators had mined other inspiration rather than coasting on nostalgia too much.
* TearJerker:
** Renton returning home and learning his mother died while he was gone. There's one shot of him with his father while a shadow is sitting in the empty chair where Renton's mother would be sitting.
** Spud writing a letter to Gail and their son before he attempts suicide.
*** And Spud's first scenes in the film, where he describes his descent further into drug abuse and losing everything...except heroin.
--> She's the only friend who's never left.
** Renton's "Choose Life" monologue he gives to Veronica. It starts off with Renton calling back to the cynical and sarcastic tone of the monologue he delivered at the beginning of the first film, albeit with the biting social commentary updated to match more relevant issues to 2016. Then he starts speaking of the failures in his own life, revealing that even though he genuinely chose life in the end of the first film, he still cocked it up.
--> Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it. Choose disappointment and chose losing the ones you love and as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them, until you can see one day that in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone and there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future, Veronica. ''Choose life''.

* {{Narm}}: For some, Rents complaining about social media, reality TV, zero hours contracts etc smacks of "Git off my yarhd!" fuddy-duddy old man rants which everyone and his dog can do and has done. Slightly uncomfortable when one thinks of the fact that the actors and crew are aging and still trying to stay relevant in modern times.

* {{Narm}}: For some, Rents complaining about social media, reality TV, zero hours contracts etc smacks of "Git off my yarhd!" fuddy-duddy old man rants which everyone and his dog can do and has done. Slightly uncomfortable when one thinks of the fact that the actors and crew aging and still trying to stay relevant in modern times.

* Narm: For some, Rents complaining about social media, reality TV, zero hours contracts etc smacks of "Git off my yarhd!" fuddy-duddy old man rants which everyone and his dog can do and has done. Slightly uncomfortable when one thinks of the fact that the actors and crew aging and still trying to stay relevant in modern times.

--> Choose life. "Choose Life" was a well meaning slogan from an 1980's anti-drug campaign. And we used to add things to it. So I might say, for example: Choose... designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. Choose handbags. Choose high heeled shoes. Cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel like what passes for happy. Choose an I-phone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick it in the pocket of your jacket, fresh from a South Asian firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand other ways to spew your bile across people you've never met. Choose updating your profile. Tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do. Choose live blogging from your first wank till your last breath, human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose 10 things you never knew about celebrities who had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion. Choose rape jokes, slut shaming, revenge porn and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did it was the Jews. Choose a zero hour contract and a two hour journey to work and choose the same for your kids only worse, and maybe tell yourself it's better that they never happened. And then sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's fucking kitchen. Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it. Choose disappointment and chose losing the ones you love and as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them, until you can see one day that in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone and there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future, Veronica. Choose life.

--> She's the only friend who's never left.

** Spud writing a letter to Gail and their son before he attempts suicide.

* HoYay: Veronika tells Renton and Sick Boy (in her native Bulgarian) that they should just dispense with their bickering and just fuck each other.

* MoralEventHorizon: Begbie crosses it when he tries to kill Renton. He does it first by attempting to slash him with a knife in the car park, [[spoiler:and then at the end, when Renton is tangled in cables in danger of being strangled, he tries pulling Renton down to break his neck. It's also considered one InUniverse, as Renton, Spud and even Sick Boy, who was incredibly bitter about Renton's betrayal of them from the first film, turn their backs on Begbie after this and dump him back at the prison.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Begbie crosses it when he tries to kill Renton. He does it first by attempting to slash him with a knife in the car park, [[spoiler:and then at the end, when Renton is tangled in cables in danger of being strangled, he tries pulling Renton down to break his neck. It's also considered one InUniverse, as Renton, Spud and even Sick Boy, who was incredibly bitter about Renton's betrayal of them from the first film, turn their backs on Begbie after this and dump him back at the prison.]]
* Renton's "choose life" speech to Veronica. When this troper first saw this film, someone applauded after the speech ended.
** This troper experienced a frustrated sigh, one that he echoed as although it worked in the trailer, it was pretty cringeworthy in the film.

* MoralEventHorizon: Begbie crosses it when he tries to kill Renton. He does it first by attempting to slash him with a knife in the car park, [[spoiler:and then at the end, when Renton is tangled in cables in danger of being strangled, he tries pulling Renton down to break his neck. It's also considered one InUniverse, as Renton, Spud and even Sick Boy, who was incredibly bitter about Renton's betrayal of them from the first film, turn their backs on Begbie after this and dump him back at the prison.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Spud]] decks [[spoiler:Begbie]] with a freaking [[spoiler:toilet]]!
* HeartwarmingMoments: After twenty years, Renton still kept Sick Boy's £4000 of the £16000 from the drug deal in the first film and gave it to him when they meet again.
** Even Begbie likes Spud's writing, because it reminds him of the past and some of the events of the first film.
** [[PetTheDog Begbie and his son sharing a hug.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Spud]] decks [[spoiler:Begbie]] with a freaking [[spoiler:toilet]]!