I am confused as to why there are positive reviews for this film. It's annoying and difficult to watch. It may be my own opinion that others may disagree with, but overall I found this film to be an epic waste of my time. The film's directing is jumpy and some characters are embarrassing to watch. I like gritty British films and had high hopes for this, sadly it did not deliver. I think it says a lot when you see where the other actors of this film have progressed to in their careers (has-beens at best). The film is split into three parts and honestly I can't answer as to which one is worse. My advice would be to avoid this and look through IMDB for a better use of your time. There are so many alternative films worth a watch instead.

Trainspotting remains my favourite film. Period. I was under absolutely no illusion that this three-shorts set was similar, or even related to Danny Boyle's brilliant masterpiece. Irvine Welsh's stories are one thing, but no-one can doubt that the phenomenal success of Trainspotting was largely down Boyle's sublime direction and the energetic young cast. I'm no prude and whilst black humour and the darkness of human degradation often inspires and moves me, The Acid House just made me feel quite ill. Unless the viewer is as wasted or drunk as the characters when it might all seem a joke, it's all rather nauseating.

I don't give a rat's a$$ whether the social commentary is accurate or not or what this film's "artistic sensibilities" are supposed to be. This movie is a riot. It's romp through the ugliest, most politically incorrect depths of everyone's subconscious. This film needs to be watched during a particularly bad hangover, wearing only underpants with holes in them, while eating cold pizza from the night before and sucking on your first hair-of-the-dog beer. The second segment is the best one, and also the most realistic one. A pathetic, hopeless man living a grim, hopeless life has his become accustomed to his misery, until a neighbor from hell makes his existence even more intolerable than before. This segment is definitely an allegory of every working class life.

I have not read the books, so I don't have that comparison to make, but as a film I found it very interesting. It is divided up into three small stories. The first one is about some bloke who is having a bad day and is turned into a fly by god. The second is about some bloke and his missus living in a flat and the third is the most spaced out one about a guy who takes acid and exchanges bodies with a comical baby. I found this enterataining the humour was quite dark, the acting really good, I think a couple of guys from trainspotting are in it, Tommy and Spud, maybe the third story was just a little bit too long. It's different and worth a watch.