Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have a solid hit rate as far as their TV work is concerned. However, their film work has been much more chequered (2008's The Bank Job was fine, the previous year's Across The Universe decidedly weak, for instance).Still Crazy, fortunately, is a solid success. It has a great story, excellent performances, a lot of humour, fabulous music and, above everything else, real heart.I savour "moments", and this film has one of them - just when everything is going pear-shaped at the festival reunion performance...Hugely enjoyable.

I wanted to like this movie. I love classic rock and I already liked the cast (those that I had heard of) and it's kind of OK, but just not great. Plot-wise, I knew what I wanted and what I was gonna get. Once great rock band, ravaged by tragedy, time and drugs get back together, against the odds to heal the hurt and pull off a great comeback. To pull off a story this clichéd, the movie needed better script, better acting, bigger scale, bigger budget and more authenticity. As it is it just feels cheesy and the empathy with the 70's rock band seems second-hand, based on folklore and not actually from having lived it. The writers were born in the 30's,so they would have been past it way before the heyday of the band in the film. I guess that's why it just seems clichéd rather than genuine. It was enjoyable mostly, but it's been done better before, several times.

I discovered this gem of a film in the "Hot Picks" section at a local Blockbuster Video store. When I read the synopsis, I though I'd probably like it because it's about a rock band. This film marked the first time I'd ever seen Bill Nighy, who was absolutely brilliant as Ray. He really captured the personality of a rocker with a fragile ego who's fresh out of rehab and torn between his feelings of vulnerability and wanting very much to seem completely "together" and able to just go right back to the "good old days" of Strange Fruit's glory years. I feel that this movie is arguably second only to "This Is Spinal Tap" as the best(and funniest) movie ever made about a rock band. I'd highly recommend it to anyone!

Horrible film. This is a bore fest and rips off "Spinal Tap". Well, it doesn't exactly, but it tries for that funny fictional rock band thing. This movie is supposed to be taken seriously, unlike "Spinal Tap", and that's what makes it such a pretentious bore. For one thing, Tap's music is classic. It's bad, but classic. In other words it's supposed to be bad, and for bad, it's awesome. The music in this flick, that is, the original songs that we're supposed to believe were once classic tunes, are god-awful. Worse than "On the Dark Side" by "Eddie and the Cruisers", if you can believe it. I think it's very difficult to make a film that's supposed to be taken seriously (even if it's a comedy) about a (fictional) famous band, or composer, if you can't write music to back up what the story is about. You can do this with a writer; that is, make a film centering a fictional famous author, because his work doesn't have to show; just make him a brooding, somber, strange and deeply troubled guy and you're in. But with a band, you must play their music to back up why we're supposed to believe they're geniuses. I think they based the main "genius" guy, who is lost for years and presumed dead, on either Brian Jones or Syd Barrett or Jim Morrison or all three. This guy was, or rather is, supposed to be the lost Mozart of rock, and the song that he wrote, that was supposed to be of "Stairway to Heaven" or "Freebird" legacy, sounds more like something the producer or writer or director or gaffer or even best boy of the film wrote in two minutes. Anyhow, it's a horrible, horrible film, one of those "cult movies" that, while being made, was considered "a cult movie to be"... or something. Avoid it even at no costs.