alan partridge: alpha pappa
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I quite fancy but it could be bobbins.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
the thing about Alan Partridge is that it is not just jokes. The whole character is one big joke. So you might see a few of the gags in the trailer, but seeing the whole thing is a different thing entirely.
well, normally yeah. but it's partridge. he hasn't made a bad one yet (or if he has, i've not seen it)
editor
hiraethified
It's just got a bit of a rave review:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jul/24/alan-partridge-alpha-papa-review
Virtual Blue
ready
i can't wait for this (though unsure if it's a big screen occasion...)
youngian
Well-Known Member
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Trailer looks good. I look forward to this, it's been a while since I've seen a good comedy movie - the yanks are pretty shit at them generally.
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
Just went to see this last night. Based on the trailers I was dreading it, but it was as I suspected. The trailers were made up of the bits that movie PR people think sells films, none of which was classic Partridge. The film though was chock full of it.
If you've not seen it, I shan't spoil it, but as a fan of Alan since On The Hour, I can hugely recommend this film. Some bits are extraneous bollocks, but they're so few and far between, and were to be expected from a move to the big screen anyway. There are some real gems in there though. Needless to say, he has the last laugh, and has clearly bounced back.
If you do go and see it, could you also do me a favour and say whether the lady who plays the Gold Command police woman is a grown up version of the same (young) actress who did this in Jam?
I swear she is, but Google seems not to know...
If you've not seen it, I shan't spoil it, but as a fan of Alan since On The Hour, I can hugely recommend this film. Some bits are extraneous bollocks, but they're so few and far between, and were to be expected from a move to the big screen anyway. There are some real gems in there though. Needless to say, he has the last laugh, and has clearly bounced back.
If you do go and see it, could you also do me a favour and say whether the lady who plays the Gold Command police woman is a grown up version of the same (young) actress who did this in Jam?
I swear she is, but Google seems not to know...
I do online surveys, and I had one about this film a little while ago. I had to watch a trailer and then answer questions about what I thought about about it.
Have you tried IMDb?
Have you tried IMDb?
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Looks good, massive fan of AP since back in the day so looking forward to this!
youngian
Well-Known Member
The film is a total joy and the best Partridge Coogan has done since I'm Alan Partridge. Solid support from regulars like Lynn, Michael, Phil Cornwall and a solid actor in Colm Meaney rather than going for a contrived cameo from someone like Ben Stiller. They haven't mucked around with the formula but it doesn't feel stretched either.
As the face of the North Norfolk Digital Radio siege, Alan, according to Lynn, is "puffed up like a Robin" as he realises he could become the biggest thing to come out of Norfolk since Admiral Nelson, "or Trisha".
As the face of the North Norfolk Digital Radio siege, Alan, according to Lynn, is "puffed up like a Robin" as he realises he could become the biggest thing to come out of Norfolk since Admiral Nelson, "or Trisha".
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
I laughed loads, at one point spraying water over the people in front. Personally I preferred The World's End, but I'm sure you can ignore me quite safely, as I was always a much bigger fan of spaced than partridge.
fogbat
The Talibum
Off to see it this evening. Must remember to bring water.
kittyP
Pluviophile
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
The Gold Command police woman. Not sure it is her now, as apparently the woman in the AP film is loads older than that actress in Jam could have been at the time. They look oddly similar tho.
kittyP
Pluviophile
Find her in the cast list, click on her name and then it will tell you everything else she has been in,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469021/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
Yep, that's how I found she's loads older than she could have been in Jam.
I'm going as well this evening, although I'll have Toblerone with me and an extra big plate.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
back of the net!!
Actually bothered to go and watch a film in the cinema for this.
I liked it, although it is no more than 75% as good as the series.
Colm Meaney is excellent. A proper actor, who makes a potentially 2-D role into a whole character.
Lynn and Michael feel levered in for the sake of it. They don't fit naturally into the plot.
Alan feels... a bit different. He is no longer a young man's version of a stuffy middle aged man. He is a middle aged man's version of a middle aged man. The change is subtle but important, and it doesn't feel quite right.
Very funny though, and I'm glad I went to see it. It belongs in the canon.
I liked it, although it is no more than 75% as good as the series.
Colm Meaney is excellent. A proper actor, who makes a potentially 2-D role into a whole character.
Lynn and Michael feel levered in for the sake of it. They don't fit naturally into the plot.
Alan feels... a bit different. He is no longer a young man's version of a stuffy middle aged man. He is a middle aged man's version of a middle aged man. The change is subtle but important, and it doesn't feel quite right.
Very funny though, and I'm glad I went to see it. It belongs in the canon.
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