The Boat That Rocked (DVD) Reviews

Richard Curtis is a talented British director who has written and directed many memorable films, such as Four Weddings and A Funeral and Love Actually. His most recent film is The Boat that Rocked, which I think appeals to a wider audience that his previous films. The Boat That Rocked focuses on a pirate radio ship, called Radio Rock, ...  Read the complete review

It is the sixties and, despite the government's best attempts to stop it, a group of disc jockeys have set up a pirate radio station on a boat in the middle of the North Sea. Eighteen year old Carl finds himself in the middle of it all when his mother sends him to stay on the boat, obstensibly to sort himself out after a bout of misbehaving. Carl ...  Read the complete review

The Boat That Rocked is a swinging sixties laugh-a-thon about 'Radio Rock,' a fictional pirate radio station broadcasted from a cannibalised fishing trawler in the North Sea. The story starts when a young teenager called Carl is sent aboard the boat to live with godfather Quentin, since his mother feels he needs some adult supervision after being ...  Read the complete review

The Boat That Rocked - another under the radar british made movie which, with an all star cast including Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Love, Honour and Obey), Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Twister, Capote), Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Carribean, Love Actually) and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), provides an insight into a forgotten life, led by ...  Read the complete review

We watched The Boat That Rocked last night on DVD and we also saw it the cinema when it was released, we enjoyed it just as much the second time around! This is the latest film Richard Curtis, the man who brought us Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral & Notting Hill. So after hearing that list most men will groan as they seem ...  Read the complete review

I watched this film the other night with my partner. We were in two minds about this film from its trailer. I thought it looked like it had very good potential for a light hearted laugh. My partner wasn't in the same frame of mind and wasn't that sure of it. Never the less i went ahead and rented it from Lovefilm. The film ...  Read the complete review

The Boat that Rocked is a comedy movie which is directed by Richard Curtis who is famous for directing the Mr Bean on holidayand also Love actually. The leading characters in this movie are Quentin who is played by Bill Nighy,Sir Alistar played by Kenneth Branagh there are actually a wide of range of characters in the movie. This movie ...  Read the complete review

Wasn't really sure what to expect from this film. Had seen adverts on trips to the cinema and was still unsure so waited until released on DVD. Film has an amazing, feelgood soundtrack that will make you smile the whole way through. Film itself is based on a group of men who are based on a ship anchored to the seas off the coast of England who ...  Read the complete review

With an awesome tracklist and a host of comedic stars pacing their way through Richard Curtis' latest offering, I was pretty sure I wasn't going to be disappointed with this film. Its catchy title and promise to just have fun lives up to expectations, as it examines the very real controversy of pirate radio stations in the 1960s. In the ...  Read the complete review

This film lasts for 2 hours and 25 minutes however it s 2hrs and 25 mns of pure entertainment and is packed with some great performances and some nice comic moments. Written and directed by Richard Curtis the film is set in the sixties and tells the story of the pirate radio stations that used to broadcast from boats in the sea of the ...  Read the complete review

I had wanted to see The Boat that Rocked ever since I saw a preview of it on my Mama Mia DVD that I got for Christmas. As it's a British film from the makers of such films as Notting Hill and Love Actually, and it stars Billy Nighy and Rhys Ifans I felt it was definitely going to tick all the right boxes. It subsequently made its way on to my ...  Read the complete review

Richard Curtis' latest feel-good rom-com should be applauded for it's originality, at least in the respect that it isn't yet another opportunity for Hugh Grant to put on his best "I'm an awkward Englishman" act. The Boat that Rocked follows the adventures of a grop of DJs on board a pirate radio ship in the 60s, sticking two fingers up ...  Read the complete review

Written and directed by Richard Curtis, this period-comedy (retitled Pirate Radio for it's American release) was released in the UK on 1st April 2009 and is predominantly set on a fictional pirate radio ship in the North Sea in 1966. With an impressive soundtrack including hits by The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and The Who, amongst ...  Read the complete review

I am getting on a bit, but when I was a young girl, right through to my teens, I loved listening to pop music. I still do. But it isn't as much fun these days as there are so many bands, and stations on the radio, cable channels or internet to choose from. You don't get to 'know' the DJ's in the same way, unless you stick to a few radio ...  Read the complete review

I have to say that films from the house of Richard Curtis tend to be soppy British rom-coms. Whilst these have their own charm, they are not high on the agenda for viewing in my house, yet The Boat that Rocked promised something very different. This fictional story follows the adventures of a pirate radio station situated in the North ...  Read the complete review

The Boat That Rocked is brought to by Director Richard Curtis, who has previosuly brought us titles such as Four Weddings & A Funeral, Notting Hill & Love Actually. I love all of those movies so had high hopes for his latest effort. Without giving away too much of the storyline, the film is based on a pirate radio station based ...  Read the complete review

The Boat that rocked is a film set in the 1960's about a pirate radio station floating in the North Sea, just outside of British waters. Run a mixed bag of DJ's who live on the boat and broadcasts pop music to millions of UK listeners. At a time when traditional stations wouldn't and their battle against the nasty British Minister, who will stop ...  Read the complete review

Richard Curtis and Team have done it again. With an excellend Brit cast, including Kenneth Brannagh, Rhys Ifans and Nick Frost, as well as Philip Seymour Hoffman and my favourite man of this year Rhys Darby (who is just amazing in this and everything else), this was bound to be a hit. Basic concept- a pirate radio station, ...  Read the complete review

Now I didn't really go into this film with very high expectations, the trailers had looked ok, a pretty standard british comedy. I came out amazed. I'm not saying this is one of the greatest films of all time, not by a long shot, but it does something that a lot of films fail to do. It makes you feel happy. Really happy. Even at the ...  Read the complete review

What a fantastic film! I loved it! The soundtrack is brilliant, with so many 60's classics. The story itself tells the audience about a time in social history when young people really started to 'rebel', forming their own opinions, shagging like mad and most importnantly listening to the music they wanted to hear! Pirate radio allowed ...  Read the complete review