Beat on board.

Nostalgic Trip into the Swinging Sixties: The ensemble comedy "Rock Radio Revolution" pays homage to its days as a pirate radio stations off the coast of Britain with a rock against the BBC sounded good - and playlists from iTunes yet, but from the cool, rebellious DJs have been made .

 

Who particularly badly weathered pop culture phenomena, you will quickly abgewirtschafteten the "Cool Britannia" hype find. There was the time in cinema. A late, also very poor example is "RocknRolla," the latest film by Madonna's ex-husband Guy Ritchie.

The fade gangster farce, recently, virtually unnoticed by the audience, also in German cinemas ran nervt with London-bowl blocks, Tumbes Kirmes-machismo and an extremely uncharitable music. So really all that since the nineties for misdirected, Union Jack-wedelndes to selbstbeweihräucherndes philistine entertainment from the island.

Fortunately, the number of Britons find the same boring, both the many other beautiful plates and films from England explained, as well as the gratifying fact that Guy Ritchie for his Altherr-Gepose hardly finds viewers.

As is often the alleged love affair for England's Pop unequally charming and above all entertaining highlight it shows "Rock Radio Revolution: The carefree ensemble comedy from writer and director Richard Curtis recalls the private pirate radio stations operating in the sixties of the high seas from the Beat brought into the United Kingdom. This is unabashedly nostalgic, sometimes plain silly, but precisely for that reason deserves actually olling attribute "cool".

From swinging nonchalance is the young Carl (Tom Sturridge), but still far away, when he was 1966 after a school on the pirate ship 'Radio Rock' lands. Under the command of his uncle Quentin Pate (Bill Nighy) recorded a team of eccentric DJs around the clock from the anchorage in the North Sea from the British mainland with music in the BBC program of the government finds no place.

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"Radio Rock Revolution
Trailer and Film Clips

Film clip: "The F-word '
Film clip: "Where are the bride maids?"
Film clip: "Love Chamber"

In addition to songs from the original "The" bands - the Kinks, Who, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys - many more gems of the first Popgeneration. But equally important for the success of the dazzling personalities at Studio Microphone: The hearty good Romanticists Simon (Chris O'Dowd), the quick and passionate speaker bed adventurer Dave (Nick Frost), a penetrating "Seekers" fan named Angus (Rhys Darby), the taciturn sex symbol Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom) and The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a bearded apostle with rock slope to revolt - they and their equally eccentric colleagues are the stars in a classic transmitter-receiver model. It is the dedication with which they hang up plates, exceeded only by their passion for the female fans surpassed.

In this maritime living and working group brings Carl missed his musical and sexual socialization in accordance with the daily life on and below deck, as the number Revue colorful designs. One of the highlights include debauchery country course, a bizarre wedding ceremony or the messianic return of the prodigal son Gavin (Rhys Ifans), the presumed best disc jockeys in Britain.

The big, lovable boy-narcissistic dream, however, threatens to end when the enemy lust Government Minister Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh) decides that the music fleet by law to sink. A dramatic showdown on the open sea seems inevitable, but how Weiland on the "Titanic" plays the music in spite of impending doom continues.

Given the Fidele Paisley pirates, it is a nice parallel that in May, "The Who Sell Out" in a deluxe edition will be republished. Bowed to 1967 Pete Townshend and his colleagues with the playful album - just think of the cover with Roger Daltrey in a bathtub full Canned Beans - one last time before the UK-pop-art scene, said at the same time and by the just-entered the jingles by law prohibited private broadcasters deep respect.

RADIO ROCK REVOLUTION (UK 2009)

Original Title: The Boat That rocked
Director: Richard Curtis
Screenplay: Richard Curtis
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy,
Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge,
Chris O'Dowd
Production: Working Title Films
Distributor: Universal
Running time: 135 minutes
Start: 16 April 2009

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The idealization of an advertising-funded broadcasting like in times of profile-free format radio course arg naive act. But the initial attraction of a collective-FM party, not yet covered by individual playlists, iTunes and Web Radio auseinanderdividiert was transported "Rock Revolution Radio" with contagious enthusiasm.

For Richard Curtis, scriptwriter for the immensely successful productions of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Notting Hill", it means the boat dropped a departure from the familiar grid of the Brit-romantic comedies with her neurotic metropolis Singles around 30, despite all the injustice always huge loft in London could afford.

"Radio Rock Revolution" is far more likely Kinoburlesken the British "Carry On" tradition and the Sixties-hysterical comedies Richard Lester committed. To make the wafer-thin plot, literally on the game board and review and a pleasure beyond all doubt sublime soundtrack to Lester Beatles films "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help" think.

Now the 2009 revolution truly no more, neither in the cinema, still on the platter. But for lovers and undogmatic Popfreunde canvas inspired slapstick, this, despite all past animosity surprisingly brisk boat from Britain today to a veritable dream.