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Sick Product of a Sick System

Memorable, crazy movie

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Film adaptations of beloved TV programmes often don't work out, usually because what works for half an hour doesn't necessarily work for 100 minutes. With Alan Partridge, though, Steve Coogan (with Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham and Patrick Marber) created a fully rounded character that has been allowed to develop from a sports reporter (The Day Today) to a chat show host (Knowing Me Knowing You) to a radio DJ (I'm Alan Partridge S1) to a man with a failed career and serious mental problems (I'm Alan Partridge S2). Because of this, Alpha Papa was never going to be bad… … but after so much darkness creeping into the second series of I'm Alan Partridge, this just seemed a little silly. Don't get me wrong: a lot of it was absolutely hilarious - the cast is flawless and the laughs just keep coming. It's as good a job of a film adaptation as I imagine anybody could have made, but there was just something missing. Verdict: Very, very good, but just didn't seem quite as human (however grotesque) as the TV and radio work. I certainly could have done without the bass guitar bit. yetanotherfilmreviewblog.tumblr.com

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.

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.

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.