The Boat That Rocked

Reviewer: Analiese Jackson

Rating: 3/5

Richard Curtis is one of my all time favourite scriptwriters. He’s responsible for having written the dialogue for what I consider amazingly funny films such as Bridget Jones’ Diary; Love Actually; Notting Hill as well as also having co- written the smash hit television series Blackadder. The Boat That Rocked sees Curtis direct his second film (the first being Love Actually) and foray into a genre that relies a little less on the romantic side of British comedy. That’s not to say that the movie is absent of relationships entirely: the love that all the DJs feel for their radio station surpasses some of the sappier Rom Coms I’ve seen in my life, but it’s an interesting move for Curtis which, for the most part, works incredibly well.

With spoiling the film too much, The Boat That Rocked is loosely based around the story of pirate radio in Britain in the 1960s.