Inaccurate, we know, but hypocritically so

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2010)

I wish I could give this a 0. The only thing that saves this absolutely awful film is the soundtrack.
The 'baddies' are the Kenneth Branagh character and his team. It is never revealed who exactly KB is meant to be - he comes across as a combination of a government minister and the BBC Director-General, but is certainly painted as an uptight, anally-retentive Tory type.
But the fact is that it was a Labour government that killed off pirate radio, and the minister responsible was the aristocratic but extreme left-wing Postmaster-General, Anthony Wedgwood Benn (formerly Lord Stansgate). He is now known as Tony Benn and still poses as a hard-line socialist.
But castigating a Labour government and attacking the BBC are not what the luvvie team of Richard Curtis, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson et al do.
What is also odd about the movie is the number of black faces they include throughout, when there were not so many people of colour in Britain at the time. But the luvvies had dropped a clanger in Notting Hill, set in the Britain of the 1990s. Not one black face appeared in the film, Notting Hill, but in Notting Hill in London there are countless black British people.
Not is this film terribly scripted and plotted, it is far too long at almost two hours.