Curtis has failed to give us characters we can really like.
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04/09/09
The Boat That Rocked (2009)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:21
Rotten:18
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: The good cast and rollicking soundtrack eventually drown when this comic homage to pirate radio loses its quippy steam.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Nov 30, 1999 Wide
Synopsis: Pirate Radio is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rouge DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic,... [More]
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost
Director: Richard Curtis
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Reviews for The Boat That Rocked
The rom-com glue that has turned every other Curtis film into box-office gold is absent. This is a listless, sketchy mess.
04/03/09
‘The Ship That Sank’ would be a more appropriate title for writer-director Richard Curtis’s latest and most disappointing entertainment. It’s a cripplingly self-conscious and self-satisfied tribute.
04/03/09
At its best, this is as engaging, funny and warmly moving as Richard Curtis’s finest work.
04/03/09
An early contender for not only of the best comedies of the year, but one of the best films of 2009, flag down "The Boat That Rocked" today!
04/03/09
A lot of The Boat That Rocked is fun but it could, and should, have been a great deal more fun than it is.
04/10/09
Curtis hangs situation and character comedy on a homage to rock’n’roll. That would be fine if it were funny, but auto-pilot Curtis prevails.
04/03/09
Sensational stuff from one of the best writers of his generation and a film which will appeal to every age.
04/07/09
The movie is boisterous, sentimental and worryingly deficient in laughs for a worryingly large amount of the time.
04/03/09
Looking back for a suitably rousing episode from our national past, Curtis has alighted on Dunkirk, a tragedy narrowly averted, which he reprises as mirthless, feelgood farce.
04/09/09
The film is far too long, and between the tracks, the episodic adventures of a group of disc jockeys broadcasting rock 'n' roll from a rusty old clunker anchored just beyond the three-mile limit from the British Isles is heavy going.
03/30/09
A great movie? No. Great entertainment? Not arf!
04/03/09
An uplifting, frothy, sexy and often funny movie.
04/03/09
An embarrassing love letter to pop music and male friendship that is knuckle-gnawing in intensity.
04/03/09
It is an immensely likeable affair but it does feel more like a string of amusing anecdotes rather than a film of any substance.
04/03/09
Having lived in London when the pirate radio stations flourished in the 60s, I can easily relate to the subject matter, although the treatment is fanciful. But that's OK, we're talking about rock n'roll, sex and youth, and about having fun.
04/02/09
It's a clever crowd-pleaser. You'll walk away knowing that you'll see it again.
04/10/09
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.
04/03/09
The main problem, however, is that it's just not funny or inventive enough, and drifts towards tedium whenever Bill Nighy isn't on screen. If ever a movie needed Hugh Grant to save it, it's this one.
04/03/09
It's a passable, if overlong, piece of fluff. But you'll have completely forgotten about it less than an hour later.
04/03/09
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