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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)

thereviewers
Jan 6, 2015
2 min read

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is a film about disgruntled ex-employee, Pat Farrell (Colm Meaney), who holds his former colleagues hostage at North Norfolk Digital Radio Station, which results in Alan Partridge being sent in to defuse the violent siege.

Overall Review Score

1.5 out of 10

Review

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa starts with a semi-believable storyline, whereby a disgruntled employee, who was recently fired, takes hostages at his old work place. However, this film then quickly descends into crazy mirage of silly jokes, pointless characters, cheap gags and incompetent Police Officers. It is a film that quickly had The Reviewers questioning how or why it was ever created and entertaining themselves by making up their own gags / suggestions for the film’s title. In short, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is a film that should only be watched by people who have trouble sleeping and need something to help them drift off.

Reviewer 1's score & comments:

Score: 2 out of 10

Comments:

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa should of been called Alan Partridge: Absolute Prattle. Though the film is meant to be a comedy, it often fails at this so dreadfully that I hoped the antagonist Pat Farrell (Colm Meaney) would start shooting hostages just to end the boredom. Filled with sporadic and often cheap gags this film made me wonder what The Times and IGN saw in it, especially as they called it 'excruciatingly funny' and 'the comedy of the year' which it most certainly is not.

Reviewer 2's score & comments:

Score: 1 out of 10

Comments:

Where to begin with this film? Is a question I struggled with when writing this review. Alpha Papa will always be remembered by me as Astonishingly Pointless and Absolutely Pathetic. It was a film that could have been good but sadly, it is overshadowed by silly jokes - which are not funny, pointless characters and silly music choices. It left me wondering whether the Director, Producers, and Studio were even attempting to make a film or whether their attempts were actually the comedic part of this film.