A worthy, moving and highly entertaining historical document for any era.

Rating: 7/10 (29 April 2009)

This is far more than merely a lightweight and bawdy fiction. Like the pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean, this crew is once again a disparate selection of males (with one exception in the case of Boat).
As the story unfolds we see both co-operation and competition among these males for the chance to mate with one or other of the females who occasionally venture on board. Corresponding female behaviour is also illustrated at times. In short, as I saw it, there are numerous examples of present day Darwinian selection to be observed in the narrative. There is also a striking contrast between the feeling of being alive that the boat represents and the stifling conformity of officialdom.
So much for my perhaps rather amateurish psychoanalytical summing up of the plot. Suffice it to say that watching Boat had me run the gamut of emotions between cringing with embarrassment to literally struggling to stop myself bursting into tears. This film has quite a lot to say about how we got from the relative naivety of the mid twentieth century to where we are now.
A worthy, moving and highly entertaining historical document for any era. Highly recommended.