This wonderful film, although being fictitious, is a good way of summing up England's history of illegal radio stations on boats. The characters, all funny and charming in their own style, also represent every genre of music/drugs/political beliefs from back in the 1960's, and are played by huge actors (Hoffman and Nighy above all !). The music is obviously excellent (a whole radio-boat crew bringing to England's young ears the best of musical artists the sixties had to offer), and there is, of course, a *fuckload* (as Simple Simon would say) of memorable dialogs (my favorite might be the scene where someone first says the 'F word' on the radio waves...).Richard Curtis' first non-romantic movie (after the simple yet cool "Love Actually") contains what this great man could produce of better, after working on such 'musts' as "Spitting Image" (some kind of english equivalent of "Les Guignols de l'Info"), or Rowan Atkinson's "Blackadder" series and "Mister Bean" movies.
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