Five things we learned from the first full trailer for T2: Trainspotting

Do the drugs still work – if so, which ones? Hooray, Kelly Macdonald is still in it, Begbie is, thankfully, still angry and who’s not been using moisturiser?

American audiences were so confused by the Edinburgh patois spoken by the cast of the original Trainspotting movie that producers famously re-dubbed the opening 20 minutes of an early US cut to make it easier to understand. Thanks to the rather strange decision to title the sequel T2, filmgoers this time around are more likely to be left baffled when Arnold Schwarzenegger’s red-eyed cyborg singularly fails to turn up and avert the machine apocalypse.

At least there are plenty of other familiar faces in Danny Boyle’s long-awaited return to the story of Rent Boy, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie. Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle are all back, and there’s even a prominent spot in the trailer for Kelly Macdonald’s Diane Coulston, whose youthful reveal gave Renton such a shock all those years ago. But does this second, belated dose of Trainspotting course through the veins with all the glorious, destructive potency of the 1996 film? Or has somebody given us a weakened measure this time around? Here are five takeaways from the first full-length trailer.