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The Boat That Rocked

The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio)

2009

Richard Curtis

Tom Sturridge, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost ...

6.7

13,403

Comedy In 1966—British pop music's finest era—the BBC played just two hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate radio played rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours a day. And 25 million people—over half the population of Britain—listened to the pirates every single day. Recently expelled from school, Carl (Tom Sturridge) has been sent by his mother to find some direction in life by visiting his godfather, Quentin. However, Quentin is the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, plus a heavy dose of Swinging ‘60s nostalgia (...) For a script that relies more on character-driven than situational comedy, it’s the perfs that count, and these are thankfully strong."	POS
United Kingdom	James Christopher The Times	"A rose-tinted homage to Radio Caroline (...) But the rom-com glue that has turned every other Curtis film into box-office gold is absent. This is a listless, sketchy mess. (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Richard Curtis is good at handling large casts, establishing all the characters and keeping them alive (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"But where are the gags? (...) The movie is boisterous, sentimental and worryingly deficient in laughs for a worryingly large amount of the time. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)."	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"A mix-tape of successes and failures, perhaps too light for its subject, but a silly, easy watch (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Anthony Quinn The Independent	"For a man who loves the raucous, ebullient pop of the 1960s, Curtis's own output has been terribly, terminally square. This latest is a new low: The Film That Sucked."	NEG
United States	Michael Leader Den of Geek	"This is all well and good; but there is still an unshakable feeling that this subject matter deserves something less middle-of-the-road, less dumbed down (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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