I only have one word for Pirate Radio: FUN, FUN, FUN. I knew in the first 15 minutes that I was going to love this movie. I didn't care how historically inaccurate the story might be; I didn't care how it left out the raunchiness of rock and roll; I didn't care that they used a phrase like, "think outside the box"; and, I didn't care if they left out how rock and roll historically helped bring all races and classes together. No! I put aside my (occasional) film snobbery. Ok, I will admit I Goggled to see if Scrabble had indeed been available in the UK before 1966. Answer: Yes. And, I tried not to think about corporations coming in and RUINING ROCK AND ROLL AS WE KNEW IT until the Internet came along...But, I digress.
I didn't sit down for those first 15 minutes, either, because this movie has the best classic rock music soundtrack since.... I'm not sure. Forest Gump, maybe?
When I hear Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy are in a film, not to mention in a film together, I don't know why I don't just go see it immediately. I'm off to find that soundtrack!
Available on DVD or OnDemand.
Rated: Fun
Rock and Roll, Baby!
Summary: Rock & roll history is being retraced in this appealingly ramshackle comedy from Love Actually writer-director Richard Curtis. Set in England circa 1966, the movie revels in the chaos that ensued when prudes at the BBC decided rock music was an evil that needed censorship and maybe banning. That’s when a renegade band of merry-prankster DJs, collectively known as Radio Rock, took to the sea in an old tanker and started broadcasting the devil’s music 24/7. The BBC, in the tight-assed person of Kenneth Branagh’s government minister, declares war. (Source: Rolling Stone)
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