Awful unfunny self-indulgent rubbish...

Rating: 1/10 (8 April 2009)

This film is so bad, if you watched it outside birds would drop dead from the sky...
The characters are beyond caricatures - some are just bizarre - and waste some good acting/comedy talent (I'm not including Bill Nighy in that - despite Curtis' constant use of him and an okay turn in Shaun of the dead, I really can't see the point of Nighy as an actor or a comic).
The script is lazy, flaccid and way overlong and the whole premise (of a pirate radio station - which could have been a good one) is lost in the general mish-mash of in jokes and stilted set pieces.
Even the title is a cringeworthily bad pun which is beyond ironic.
I know people will say it's just a feel good movie and will point to the money it will no doubt bring in, but at a time when resources in the UK film industry are scarce I think Curtis' films are increasingly becoming wasted opportunities.
British cinema is capable of so much more