Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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

serafinogm Again Steve Coogan hit's a home run! Brilliantly clever and funny to the point of belly laughs! Steve again plays a borderline narcissist brilliantly, but with a bit less heart with this offering. Steve I'm a huge fan and I now actively search out your work. Admittedly the plot had a few holes but in a comedy who cares, I'm there to laugh not to attest to it's realism. I marveled at the existential grasp the character, Alan Partridge (Steve), manages to adhere to the spirit of the character despite any external exigencies (of which there were a multitude). Intelligence is a must for viewing pleasure! If you are a fan of mindless killing and zombie films beware as you haven't the intelligence, or perhaps the sanity to view a delight like Alan Partridge.

ConsistentlyFalconer 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

SnoopyStyle Radio DJ Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) works at a local station in Norwich. They are taken over by a big corporation. He crashes a board meeting and discovers that it's either him or Pat Farrell (Colm Meaney). He backstabs Pat who gets fired. Later Pat comes back with a gun to take over the station. Pat demands to talk through Alan in exchange for three hostages. The cops press Alan into the radio station.I was a bit concerned when shoots were fired but the movie never missed a beat. It kept the quick fire jokes going. I'll be honest that I've never heard of Alan Partridge. Although Steve Coogan has obviously honed in on the character. His machine gun delivery is really sharp. Even if you miss one joke, the next one is coming right on top of you. Colm Meaney has the high energy to keep up with Coogan.

tieman64 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".