This movie was indeed very entertaining with a lot of great music and fabulous actors. I found myself tapping my feet to a lot of the tunes played in this movie.
I was searching for movies about censorship for a class assignment. Fortunately, this film arrived at my library long after I completed my work.
I really, really, really wanted to like The Boat That Rocked more than I did. I love the subject matter, I love the time period, I love the soundtrack, I love the actors.
It's 1966. Official radio rarely plays the popular rock music of the era.
I saw this movie when it first came out, while on a date. I'm not going to give away any plot points because that would first require a plot.
Great cast, great story, great music. I really can't understand how Pirate Radio isn't considered an absolute classic.
As someone who grew up just after the pirate radio movement, I found this to be a really good film - I could recognise similarities between the DJ's and those real life DJ's who became radio 1 stalwarts. Oh and the music - fantastic.
To be fair to writer Richard Curtis, after the success he achieved with films like Love Actually and Notting Hill that adhere so tightly to a set formula I think that anything that moved away from that would struggle at the box office but this film is a disappointment, largely because it has such a good cast and the idea has potential.Sadly though what we end up with is lots of pointless scenes, more vulgarity than we're used to from a Curtis film and lots of good subplots without one big plot for them all to work around.
Can't sing the praises enough for this belter of a performance from every cast member. Incredible.