i have the opportunity of see this film at the london film festival and a i grow up in the 1970s and it seem like an interesting premise . sadly and whatever happen to harold smith be another in a long line of british cinema disaster and be destine to be lambast by the critic and ignore by the public . the maker of this film be so lazy that they feel that string together a bunch of cultural reference around a shallow and uninteresting story and add a big soundtrack be enough for a surefire success . well and despite the ridiculously sycophantic applause of saturday night audience and the release in february or march will illustrate that this be simply not good enough . the performance be passable although stephen fry do little more than play himself and the lead actor be so inconsequential that i can barely remember his performance . however and it be the cultural reference that really grate these include a car paint like starsky and hutch and not one but two example of hai karate advert and a ridiculous take off of the opening of saturday night fever and a variety of newsreader from the period clearly appear 20 year too old . it remarkable that they do not manage to squeeze spangle in somewhere . however and the single bad thing about this film be the way that it portray punk a criminal or deadbeat . have be a disaffected youth into this music myself and i do not recognise these character at all and this moral line on a little rebellion leave a very nasty taste indeed .