An Exercise In Nonsense

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is a decent movie with a reasonably well developed storyline and a good cast. It's nothing outstanding, but it definitely brings in several big laughs, Steve Coogan is the highlight of the movie, as he seems completely dedicated and still very happy playing Alan Partridge, a character he has been portraying for several years now. It's a very hit and miss comedy and, sadly, there are much more scenes that miss, it all felt like the script was written at the spur of the moment, so many jokes are very mediocre and felt like any person could have came up with them. The rest of the cast, besides Coogan, didn't seem very pushed about this film, they probably just considered it a paycheck, particularly Colm Meaney, who didn't seem like he wanted to be there at all, which was a shame as he had one of the most important roles. It's a very average comedy that is worth a watch if you have some time to kill, but you certainly shouldn't be going out of your way to see Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Alan Partridge's life is put at risk when he becomes a hostage at his own radio station. Best Performance: Steve Coogan Worst Performance: Felicity Montagu

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa was a movie whereby two dream-states were interesting. The first dream state was when the main character had access to a weapon and in his waking dream state he saved the hostages but this was an allusion as in actual fact he did nothing. Secondly, when he was on the pier on his back he was watching a seagull transcend high up into the skies. This dream sequence did seem to be a near death experience - but in actual fact it was the viewer watching the seagull versus having an out-of-body experience or was it both at the same time or all three perspectives. I guess that is what makes film so fascinating - is the ability to see all visual angles at the same time, getting different cinematic camera vantage points. In actual fact the human being is more complicated than that. A human being can see perspective from all angles - similar to the view points of multiple camera angles in edited together in a sequence covering the same topic, however the human being also has feeling internally and this component is very hard to convey on film. It is often conveyed through means of intonation or facial expressions - but that is staged emotion. The real emotions inside an individual are often so private and confidential that they very rarely come to light. Especially the most complex of human beings. Their perspectives and narratives, the ones with the most profound inner feelings, can often not be conveyed through the visualization of camera work and dialogue however bringing in a good dialogue combined with a good visual story-telling featured in a movie is an attempt at a language conveying humanity in a pictorial and narrative sequencing. I believe in the power of humor to make a heavy situation light, like Charlie Chaplin and his sequencing on Adolf Hitler. Charlie Chaplin makes a good attempt to bring humor into one of the darkest historical situation of our time. Salvation is in humor.

Massive fan of Alan Partridge down the years. I realize that the lengthened format almost universally fails to live up to the shortened one but this offering fell far below what I had expected from one of my all- time favorite British comedic brands. This was very surprising as Steve Coogan/Alan Partridge has done such a fantastic job down the years of limiting his output & thus placing any new stuff at a huge premium for avid fans like myself. I enjoyed Coogan's similarly formulaic The Parole Officer from 2001 far more than this lazy, tired, insult to one of the top British comedy brands of the last 30 years. The reasons for the failure of this effort in my eyes are a combination of weakened casting (widened) & the inability to use Partridge as the singular focus under the limitations of the format.

Alan Partridge is just a movie simple fun to watch, I didn't expect nothing more than that, and otherwise was more than I expected, I have a really nice time watching it, very good laughs with not complicated plot but nothing stupid neither (You know in the moronic style), I appreciate Steve Coogan give a twist on the same old clichés on this kind of movies, You expect something but the movie deliver other stuff, mostly with good results, it was in some way "refreshing", Coogan shows he respect us as an a clever audience, and the good writer he is, very keen and sharp, and his performance was on the same style, he fit perfect the character, the cynicism of Alan Partridge give us some of the most funny parts of the film.I'am not going to tell details of the movie, I'm just going to tell you, if You like British comedy, and want to pass a good time, this movie can give you that, it doesn't matter that You don't' know Alan Partridge's TV series, You could watch it the same, I did. Just, simple fun.