Everything about this film is infused with fabulousness, from the costumes to the sets and, especially, the performances. After an absence of nine years, Culkin returns to cinemas with a type-smashing role ... which he's sadly not quite up to. He gets the physicality and campness just right, but never brings out the character below, except in a couple of rare serious scenes. By contrast, Green's St James is even more over-the-top, and yet there's a real person just barely visible underneath the hilarious costumes and drama queen antics. In many ways this is his movie, really (it's based on St James' book, Disco Bloodbath). Or at most it's a sort of deranged love story between Alig and St James, while most of the other characters stay well in the background. Meanwhile, Bailey and Barbato fill the film with quirky scenes, characters on the edge of drug-induced oblivion, and insanely colourful costumes. Yes, it's very self-aware and probably too arch. But their effortless and inventive weaving of zany surfaces with the more sobering truths below makes the film worth seeing. This is a cautionary film about drugs, madness, murder and rehab ... made more potent because these things are flippantly seen by the characters as a normal part of everyday life.

David Mullen, London: "I thought this film was ... ‘fabulous’ of course. The costumes and the music were so nostalgic and hip! Culkin’s performance was great as Alig and he created a great chemistry on screen with Keoki. All I can say is long live Club Kids and I’m gonna bring it back into fashion again in London!" (12.May.04)