Nov 12th, 2009 - New York Times
Boys will be boys and at often top volume in “Pirate Radio,” Richard Curtis’s fanciful fiction about rebel broadcasters who, in the mid-1960s, blasted British airwaves and eardrums with the Stones, the Kinks and the Who, among other youth-quaking greats of the era. Stuffed with playful character actors and carpeted with wall-to-wall tunes, the film makes for easy viewing and easier listening, even if Mr. Curtis, who wrote and directed, has nothing really to say about these rebels for whom rock ’n’ roll was both life’s rhyme and its reason.
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No movie can be all bad when juiced up with a soundtrack of more than 50 classic rock tunes. The best thing to say about Richard Curtis' "Pirate Radio" is that it's all about the music, man...
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