Too lightweight but still fun

Rating: 6/10 (22 August 2009)

This was a film I was really looking forward to - part of my growing up along with the Old Grey Whistle Test in the 70s and John Peel there was pirate radio.
This is a fun film done in fine style but it appears the crew and actors had a lot more fun making this than we do watching it - it is fun and it is nostalgic, but by taking it so unseriously it actually reduces it to a so-so comedy rather than a winning film.
Here was the 5th classers version of the 60s: string some scenes together, add a kicking soundtrack (A bit anachronistic as Hendrix hadn't yet recorded the track etc;) This is not a film for the real muso (And who isn't?) and everyone seems to be just doing what they do without being stretched in any way.
Good good fun but so candyfloss it lacks any goodness...