It's a mockumentary of DJ Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye) who is well known within the Ibiza club scene. He marries video vixen Sonja Slowinski (Kate Magowan). Then he disappears for a year. Nobody knows why, but he's actually gone deaf.

I didn't like this style of mockumentary. It has those short interview clips to drive the narrative. Unless the individual characters are funny or crazy, it doesn't add any comedy to the movie. I'm not usually a fan of narrations, and this is the worst of them. Paul Kaye does an engrossing performance as the wild DJ. The biting satire of the clubing world doesn't always draw blood. But Kaye's performance does.

I should say that the title refers both to what happens to the lead character, and the film features the DJ Pete Tong. Based on the true life of legendary disc jockey Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye),this Ibiza rave based film uses both documentary style and regular comedy drama. Wilde clawed his way to the top as one of the best DJs, but his success turns to tragedy when he develops a hearing disorder. He is given a hearing aid which he can only use if he has to, and of course he should be giving up his DJ mixing. Unfortunately he is permanently deafened wearing his aid while hearing a loud tune, high volume, on a stereo. In his depression he is drug taking and drinking heavily, but he has found a way to get back into creating his fantastic mixes. Obviously he learns to lip read first from his new partner Penelope Garcia (Beatriz Batarda). Then, using his feet on the stereos he manages to recognise the beats and create the fantastic music he did when able to hear, and some of course praise him for being possibly better deaf. Also starring Kate Magowan as Sonja Slowinski, Mike Wilmot as Max Haggar, David Lawrence as Horst, Neil Maskell as Jack Stoddart, Monica Maja as Charlize Bondo, Paul J. Spence as Alfonse, Pete Tong of course, and DJs Carl Cox, Paul Van Dyk and DJ Tiësto. Kaye makes for an alright performance, and the music is very good listening, but it isn't exactly the funniest comedy films I've ever seen. Okay!

The story of a man who gets to the top (money, fame, women, drugs) and then falls hard. But he gets up and does what most people thought impossible. It's a DJ who creates his last album as a complete deaf person. It's even more powerful as it is based on a true story. This man really exists.

The film is made almost like a reenactment. With bits played by actors, but trying to be as accurate and unbiased as possible. I thought the lead actor played very well and the direction was good. It is in the same time a hero story as it is an accurate overview of the soulless music industry.

It is certainly worth a view, but I don't recommend watching it with grandmothers or anything like that. The title is a bit of a DJ slang thing, it comes from an European DJ radio show. It may have been a bad choice, as it made me think the movie was a fart/martial arts comedy type before I read the reviews.