When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.
Steve Coogan Colm Meaney Felicity Montagu Simon Greenall Anna Maxwell Martin Darren Boyd Nigel Lindsay Dustin Demri-Burns Monica Dolan Phil Cornwell Tim Key Simon Delaney Sean Pertwee Karl Theobald Elizabeth Berrington Jessica Knappett Simon Kunz Peter Singh Lucy Briers Eleanor Matsuura Diane Morgan Robert Whitelock Martin Glyn Murray Alan Rothwell Rita Davies Katie Males Dan Mersh Anna Stockton Kieran Hodgson Show All…
Steve Coogan Peter Baynham Christine Langan Joe Oppenheimer Armando Iannucci Neil Gibbons Rob Gibbons Danny Perkins Jenny Borgars
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alan partridge got jokes - and i love all of them.
great acting - i’ll tell you, what’s even better? a lot of people are shocked when i say this; the camera angles.
- letterboxd, basically.
Occasional giggles turned into full-blown, near-nonstop guffaws starting with the scene where Alan steps outside the radio station to negotiate with police on behalf of just-sacked DJ/hostage taker Pat, gets distracted by a few adoring onlookers, then essentially launches into a stand-up routine to entertain the crowd and focus all the attention onto him. Note the sly double-take when his Irish crack provokes an unexpected reaction from the crowd, followed by the exaggerated turn and walk away belying his stated desire to get back to business.
Coogan's brilliance isn't just that he so capably plays egomaniacs without making them dully despicable; it's that he so capably plays egomaniacs who genuinely seem to want to be good people but just. can't.…
Partridge: I wish this was abroad because it would make a brilliant 'Banged Up Abroad'
Farrell: What's 'Banged Up Abroad'?
Partridge: You don't know 'Banged Up Abroad'?
Farrell: No
Partridge: Everyone knows 'Banged Up Abroad'
Farrell: I don't, what is 'Banged Up Abroad'
Partridge: You seriously don't know 'Banged Up Abroad'? You have to be shitting me
Farrell: I've never even heard of 'Banged Up Abroad'
Policewoman: Just get to the bit where they stop saying 'Banged Up Abroad'
Sidekick Simon: I once banged up a broad
Partridge: That's the best you've got, even with a gun to your head?
Even funnier than I remember it being and one of the rare cases of a tv show character translating to the big screen seamlessly. Just what I needed.
Great acting. I tell you what's even better, a lot of people are often shocked when I say this ... the camera angles.
When Darren Boyd’s character is at the computer about to stand up and introduce himself to Alan Partridge but very seriously says “Send.” to himself as he sends an email it makes me lol so hard every single time.
“Tonight we'll be asking - have you ever met a genuinely clever bus driver?”
wait. is this one of my favorite movies of all time????? man the title sequence hits every time
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is a madcap comedy that feels overextended when stretched to a feature film (like many SNL sketches that should have never been made as movies — i.e. A Night at the Roxbury, Superstar, It’s Pat). It is essentially a one-note hostage movie that takes place at the North Norfolk Digital Radio Station in England. Alan (Steve Coogan), a megalomaniacal radio broadcaster/DJ, is ostensibly responsible for the situation. He at least instigated it, to a degree, having facilitated the firing of colleague Pat Farrell to save his own job. What Alan did not expect was for Pat to return to the office, shotgun in hand. When this siege ensues, Alan turns into the chief negotiator — recruited…
Today has been a lot. This week has been a lot. The stuff going on in the world, it can get to you. When it does, a happy place is required. This film is definitely one of mine. Eight watches now, I'm like Steve G with The Nice Guys! I hope everyone is OK.
"Back in the day, I was MC-ing a conference for Reynard Pharmaceuticals. Some of the marketing guys were doing karaoke. I didn't join in, I tended to shun Japanese culture. This was the mid-90s, it was more acceptable. But high on a cocktail of champagne and cheap Fosters lager, I lunged at the microphone. A few minutes later, I was making grown men cry with my rendition of "Summer Of '69" by Bryan Adams. Thing is, I twisted the lyrics to the Summer Of '29, evoking memories of the Wall Street Crash and German hyperinflation. Remember, these guys were in Sales..."
"Alan, where are you going with this?"
(Best comedy of the last five years?)
My wife, having watched thirty Jackie Chan movies with me, has moved on to feed her crave for light, funny, stupid fare to distract from the stress monster in her brain as the second wave of Corona sweeps the world and the hospital where she works begins to see a steady uptick in positive rates among both patients and staff. Tense and taxing times. And so... Partridge times.
