The Worst Film Ever

Best movie ever!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Alan Partridge is a DJ working for a local radio station in Norwich. The station is due to be taken over and rebranded leaving Alan's colleague Pat Farrell worried about his future at the station; Alan offers to talk to the new management team to encourage them to keep Pat… his plans soon change when he realises that they are debating whether Pat of Alan should be sacked; like a true friend Alan ensures that Pat is the one to get the chop! Pat doesn't take his sacking well and returns to the station with a shotgun and takes everybody inside hostage. He demands that Alan returns to act as a go between for him and the police.Films based on sitcoms frequently prove to be fairly disappointing but I really enjoyed this and found myself laughing out loud. Steve Coogan is great as Partridge; a character who is fun to watch even if he isn't exactly easy to like. The rest of the cast impress too; especially Colm Meaney who, who plays Farrell… a character who is the most sympathetic in the film despite the fact that he is threatening people with a shotgun; the character provides plenty of laughs even though he is played straight. The story starts well and gets better once the siege is underway. It will help if you have watched Alan Partridge on television but I don't think it is essential; it also helps if you know Norfolk… just hearing places like Diss and Holt being mentioned in a movie was enough to make be chuckle and the finale on Cromer pier was great as it mirrored similar, if sunnier, locations in several Hollywood films! Overall I'd recommend this; while some jokes fell flat enough hit the mark to make it a solid comedy.

There is a problem with this movie: you will watch it probably only because you know the Alan Partridge TV show, but if you know the show, then you won't like this movie so much.It's comedy, but even a comedy must make some sense in order to be funny. The silliness of this story is so big, it overshadows the few jokes and since almost everything happens at just one place, it really drags.I don't get it: why not make a good movie using the successful concept of the original TV series, which made Alan Partridge and Steve Coogan so famous, with Alan as a TV host, interpolated with some moments of his private life? This should be done while Steve still isn't too "old" for that.

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.

Directed by Declan Lowney, "Alpha Papa" stars Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, a mean-spirited radio presenter. When a disgruntled man holds a local radio station hostage, Partridge uses the incident as a means of selfishly rekindling his career.You'd think "Alpha Papa's" premise allows for some biting satire in the vein of Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole", but no, Lowney and Coogan are uninterested in such things. Even as a black comedy, the film repeatedly chickens out. "Alpha Papa" should be vile, should be dark, but Lowney instead continually pulls away from all the film's brilliantly demented possibilities. Partridge hiding in a toilet like a swine, selfishly sacrificing co-workers, risking lives for fame...these are sequences which should paint Partridge as a magnificently despicable jerk. Instead the guy gets a redeeming ending, all his social ineptitudes are bizarrely ignored and everyone around Partridge gives him a free pass. Why?6/10 – See Coogan instead in the farcical "A Cock and Bull Story".