Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Tweekums Alan Partridge is a DJ working for a local radio station in Norwich. The station is due to be taken over and rebranded leaving Alan's colleague Pat Farrell worried about his future at the station; Alan offers to talk to the new management team to encourage them to keep Pat… his plans soon change when he realises that they are debating whether Pat of Alan should be sacked; like a true friend Alan ensures that Pat is the one to get the chop! Pat doesn't take his sacking well and returns to the station with a shotgun and takes everybody inside hostage. He demands that Alan returns to act as a go between for him and the police.Films based on sitcoms frequently prove to be fairly disappointing but I really enjoyed this and found myself laughing out loud. Steve Coogan is great as Partridge; a character who is fun to watch even if he isn't exactly easy to like. The rest of the cast impress too; especially Colm Meaney who, who plays Farrell… a character who is the most sympathetic in the film despite the fact that he is threatening people with a shotgun; the character provides plenty of laughs even though he is played straight. The story starts well and gets better once the siege is underway. It will help if you have watched Alan Partridge on television but I don't think it is essential; it also helps if you know Norfolk… just hearing places like Diss and Holt being mentioned in a movie was enough to make be chuckle and the finale on Cromer pier was great as it mirrored similar, if sunnier, locations in several Hollywood films! Overall I'd recommend this; while some jokes fell flat enough hit the mark to make it a solid comedy.

Paul Evans Alan Partridge's radio station is taken over by a huge corporate media conglomerate, Pat Farrell is sacked for not being cool enough, he decides to hold a group including Partridge under siege in protest. Alan has to mediate between Pat and the Police.I'm a big fan of the TV series, it's always a worry how well a TV comedy translates to a film. Coogan is a fantastic actor, and Alan Partridge has been a big part of comedy culture for many a year. It's a very funny film, it's slick and the humour is effortless, it flies by so quickly, I really enjoyed it. As always poor LynneColm Meaney was utterly hilarious, funny man, goes without saying I enjoyed Steve Coogan too, his timing and facial expressions are genius, he's physically so funny too. Monica Dolan was as joyfully wonderful as ever.Well worth a look, 8/10

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.

danren121 Anyone who has seen the Alan Partridge character before on the telly will be familiar with the shameless scrooge like narcissist he portrays. So the movie inevitably attempts to capture Partridge in his extremes against the backdrop of the changing media world which in this case seems to be gravitating towards corporate takeovers and shallow media content that allegedly placates the tastes of a younger target audience. The switch of late to the 'Mid Morning Matters' format has suited the Partridge style well and the irreverent style of banter it espouses certainly lends itself aptly to the picture, giving the film a more deliberate type of spontaneity that few other comic films of late can boast.So Partridge on such a stage as this gets to demonstrate the evolution from what one is familiar with to a greater awareness as to how his actions effect other's. Depending on ones tastes or mood this film will be viewed with varying amounts of aha.