Review : The Boat that Rocked

Rating: 5/10 (1 April 2009)

I thought that the idea, the music and the people around the country dancing along and listening to the radio were all done well - however - although I thought that the characters played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans and a cameo role by Emma Thompson were good and enjoyable, it was very, very noticeable that the rest of the cast were incredibly weak, and the story / plot line was very poor – and it (I believe) is the weakest of all Richard Curtis's recent works - and the ONLY saving grace holding it together is the music (which would have carried any film on it's own anyway) - ultimately, (excuse the pun) I think that Richard Curtis has really missed the boat with the adaptation of this – when this film had all the ingredients and the potential to be a much, much better movie.
See the film for the music alone ... and NOT for the story or the rest of the film.
The soundtrack will be popular.
Unfortunately ... I really think that a golden opportunity was missed with the potential of this film