Every Alan Partridge Project Ranked From Worst To Best

11. Alpha Papa

Partridge’s big screen adventure isn’t bad by any means. For starters, it embraces the expanded cinematic possibilities with far more ambition than some of its British comedy cousins, e.g The Inbetweeners, in that it doesn’t just feel like a long episode of its TV forefather. There are new characters, and a big budget plot.

Unfortunately, it’s fair to say it goes a little too big. Again, top marks for the effort, but an Alan Partridge crime thriller wasn’t exactly what long term fans were clamouring for. The film sees Colm Meaney as disgruntled colleague Pat. When he is fired from North Norfolk Digital, he returns with a gun to have his revenge.

Alan of course finds himself dragged into the proceedings, and the situation is certainly mined for comedy, but the approach wasn’t especially suited to the character. As we’ve seen with some contemporaneous projects, he’s so fascinating that you don’t require a great big concept to gain great big laughs, and here the mechanics of the plot draw focus from the marquee name - Alan Partridge.