Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa...does play to the character's strengths, giving him reams of carefully honed comic writing disguised as casual malapropisms and off-the-cuff banter.

| Oct 24, 2018

I love the character of Alan Partridge so much... He is a genius creation; just wrong enough and inappropriate enough and narcissistic enough to be comic, but never so wrong he's entirely unbelievable or unsympathetic.

| Sep 5, 2018

Hopping from small to big screen is a trick few manage. This wisely and bravely keeps it small-scale and local - playing out like a slightly over-stretched 온라인카지노추천 special rather than a doomed attempt to lap-dance to Hollywood with A Good Day To Die Partridge

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2017

"Alan Partridge" could have been an expansion of Coogan's original character concept into the international big time. Thankfully, it's not.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2014

The movie clips along and pleases its fan base, and it'll amuse a lot of Partridge newbies as well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2014

Coogan is an old hand at the comedy of fear, envy, and bruised egotism, and the movie is packed with clever gags.

| Apr 24, 2014

Coogan's comic timing has never been better, and Meaney is perfectly cast as his friend/foil. The film hums along at a brisk pace, piling one witty absurdity on top of another.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 24, 2014

The way Alan feels on the outside is the way a lot of people feel at their most vulnerable. And so we watch him and recognize him, and then cringe and wish him luck.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2014

After making a crackling good impression, Alan Partridge overstays its welcome to a harrowing extent.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 18, 2014

The movie feels like a succession of sketch ideas - but it's a good platform for Partridge's blend of awkward patter, narcissism and utter cravenness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2014

A larky if sketchily schematic attempt to see if the self-adoring DJ has the chops to carry his own feature film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 17, 2014

Ron Burgundy, eat your heart out.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Apr 7, 2014

Steve Coogan's hilariously acidic creation, the buffoonish radio host Alan Partridge, is finally back. And like so many reunions, this one starts off all smiles and quickly grows tiresome.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 4, 2014

It's funny stuff, to be sure, but don't be surprised if you find yourself checking the time whenever the actual plot kicks in.

| Apr 4, 2014

It's a flurry of good gags and bad. The good ones are worth sitting around for.

| Original Score: B | Apr 4, 2014

"Alan Partridge" plays to all of Coogan's strengths and all of the character's foibles.

| Apr 3, 2014

He manages, just barely, to keep the project from going soft, and to keep us perched between finding Alan Partridge unbearable and admitting that we kind of enjoy his company.

| Apr 3, 2014

It's a silly comedy and Alan's a petty egomaniac, but Coogan is a hoot as he skewers regional British radio and sends up conceited fools.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2014

Clear your calendar. There's no better time to get to know a character so obnoxiously stubborn that not even his own creator can shake him.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2014

Director Declan Lowney does an admirable job making a confined film look cinematic without overblowing it into action-comedy mode.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 3, 2014