I couldn't believe how toe-curlingly bad this was!

Rating: 1/10 (13 April 2009)

Thank God that I am now of an age that I can enjoy reduced admission charges at our local multiplex as I shudder at the thought of paying full price to see this bilge! We disregarded the acreage of adverse reviews which we had read in the UK press and have just paid the price for our disregard. I can only imagine how embarrassed some of the well-regarded actors and actresses must feel to have been involved in such a toe-curlingly bad performance as this turned out to be and I think that both myself and my wife deserve a medal for staying to the bitter end. True to say that I can remember UK pirate radio of the time and this bore absolutely no resemblance to those stations or, for that matter, to those times. Yes, I did enjoy many of the record tracks which played throughout the film but I could hardly score the film higher because they were playing! Richard Curtis should wake up to the fact that he has lost it for this and other of his recent works and get back to writing a decent plot without the smut and innuendo which, frankly,marred the story so much. Funnily enough, I do not object to strong language or sexually-explicit scenes but in this case, such as they were (and I am not suggesting that they amounted to very much), they seemed to be included out of desperation to cover up a paper-thin plot! Younger people may see this and think that it gives the flavour of the times and situation but for my generation it was simply dire!