Pirates

This could have been great, but the script lets it down. The cinematography is brilliant. The colour grading and edit is fantastic. The story is meh, and the acting could be better. But, for a comedy film, it just wasn't funny.

I genuinely admire Reggie Yates. All the way from Sunday mornings with Fearne and Dev...to his recent documentaries.

But this was bad. Really bad.

It badly lacked 'polish'. The idea was OK, I guess. Nothing new that hasn't been done before.

Anyway, this came across like it was made by someone that heard about the era from someone...and made a movie about it, without actually being there.

Too much cringe for me...and editing that adds to the cringe.

Sadly, this wasn't the icing on Reggie's cake that I wanted it to be. Over-reliant on the music of the time.

Many better films to watch in this genre.

Light-hearted Nostalgic Entertainment

It was a nice watch ,relatively Easy watching Full of music and References from London around that Era .

This film has a nice look (cinematography, Art Direction ) , and feel (music & editing) about it's really well put together short and sweet and well paced .

A simple plot and Story not what I expected (which isn't a bad thing ) I thought it would Be more about pirate radio &/or incorporate that whole scene but that's what happens when you don't watch the trailer

It's not hilarious & I think sometimes you wish more happened but it's an enjoyable watch and well paced.

I was looking forward to watching it cos it's definitely my era but it wasn't really funny, bit embarrassing at times and the quite a lot of the music wasn't out in 99 so not brilliantly accurate to the time.

Pirates is what you get if you buy your People Just Do Nothing from wish. If Human Traffic was written by a children's TV presenter and JLS fan, it would be this.

The storyline is fairly basic - a group of mates want to get in to a club night because one of them fancies a girl, and the film just follows their escapades through the evening. The ending is as underwhelming as the rest of the film.

There are a couple of laughs in it but the majority of the humour is clichéd, predictable and at times cringeworthy. A prime example is the moment in a record store when the lead character reads backstreet boys lyrics and everyone in the store cant quite remember the backstreet boys name.

The characters, whilst likeable, are not particularly engaging or believable. Whilst the name Pirates suggests it follows the lives of pirate radio DJs, this is only a minor element to the film. The 90s references again are very clichéd.

The only positive is the soundtrack. The film is full of old school garage anthems, very nostalgic. However, most of the tunes are also in People Just Do Nothing and the Big In Japan film at some point - which is far superior.

Even if you love Garage, give this one a miss.