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The guardian gave the film 2 stars.-Peter Bradshaw
It's a great cast, and the aggregate wattage of their collective screen presence maintains a certain level of watchability. But they are almost never given any honest-to-goodness funny lines, just warm-hearted, decaffeinated dialogue and opportunities to laugh uproariously with and not at each other - not responding to jokes as such, but affirming to themselves and to us what great guys they all are. Their professional record-playing activities are presented in montage and we are regularly shown vignettes of ordinary Brits adoringly gathered round their radios - nurses, schoolgirls and couples in parks.has one or two funny moments: Rhys Darby gets some laughs as he daringly plays Seekers records back-to-back, and there is an engagingly oddball character called Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke). But please, Mr Curtis, enough with the warm-heartedness. We need some gags.The new film from Richard Curtis is a fond tribute to the heroes of his childhood: the 1960s radio pirates who exploited a legal loophole to broadcast rockandpoptastic sounds from a leaky boat in the North Sea while the BBC's stuffy monopolists were still cranking out Mantovani and Jess Conrad. The movie is boisterous, sentimental and worryingly deficient in laughs for a worryingly large amount of the time.
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