T2 Trainspotting - so named to "piss off" James Cameron - is out now in cinemas. It's a full-on nostalgia trip which might not quite capture the anarchic glory of the original Trainspotting but certainly has a damn good go at evoking it. Check out our review for more.

There are plenty of specific flashbacks in the movie as well as remixes of tracks from the original soundtrack - those we'll leave you to enjoy at your leisure. But here are eight times T2 nods back at Trainspotting without explicitly saying so.

WARNING: SPOILERS - if you've not seen the film and plan to, this gets a bit spoilery so you might want to come back later.

1. Lust for Life

We're all waiting for this classic Trainspotting tune to come out of the woodwork, but in the first half of the film all we get is a cruel tease.

Renton goes back to his family home, digs out the record and puts it on - though we hear just the single, but still entirely recognisable, opening beat.

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Don't worry, by the end you get the full whack plus dancing.

2. She's too young for you

Kelly Macdonald makes a return to T2 as a grown-up Diane. SPOILER ALERT: She's not in it very much. Diane has become a lawyer and clearly has her life together, a bit like Kelly Macdonald who has a very successful career.

We do get a throwback to Trainspotting though, when she tells Renton "she's too young for you" of his new sort-of girlfriend Veronika. In case you'd forgotten, Renton finds out Diane is a schoolgirl only after he's slept with her.

3. Toilet

Obviously Trainspotting isn't the only film to have featured a toilet. But come on, the "worst toilet in Scotland" is a pretty iconic one after Renton dived into it (in a fantasy sequence) to retrieve his suppositories.

So when we see Renton and Begbie perched on adjacent bogs the first time they encounter each other in T2, it is undoubtedly a reference.

4. The knee skid

The football match during the opening of T1 is our introduction to the gang, so when Renton and Sickboy reunite and reminisce with a few beers and the like, their knee-skid on the imaginary football pitch in Sick Boy's living room is a hark back to that moment 20 years ago.

5. George Best is the new Archie Gemmill

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"I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978" - Renton there, likening his sexual experience with Diane to a legendary goal, complete with cutaway.

In T2, Renton and Sick Boy have another in depth football convo, with cutaways. This time it's about George Best. And not sex.

6. Car face

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At the start of Trainspotting, we see Renton legging it from the police, almost getting hit by a car, and leaning over its bonnet while laughing anarchically. In T2, he does it again. This time he's legging it from Begbie, but it's a direct callback.

7. Toilet face

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Another classic Renton face. So iconic is his bog-swim that even his facial expression is immediately recognisable.

So in the film's finale, when a thing happens that we really wouldn't want to spoil but you'll know it when you see it, Renton's face is a direct mirroring of his expression as he comes out of the loo.

8. Choose life

The whole Choose Life thing was part of the backbone of Trainspotting. And you couldn't have T2 without harking back. It's not the same speech of course, it's updated for 20 years later with talk of Instagram, slut-shaming and zero-hours contracts. It's all an addiction...