I expected the film was going to be Americanised (or should that be Americanized?) and be dumbed down a little to cater for a mass audience but I was amazed to find they didn't do that.
I assume many of the references were lost on non-British audiences so this is to all you non-Brits out there: What did you think of the movie?
I'm from the United States, and I loved the film, having just watched it via Netflix. I had no idea who Steve Coogan was before watching the movie, but it didn't take long for me to warm up to the character and the situation in which he found himself. While some of the references did go over my head (not being British and such), I did laugh many times throughout. To be honest, I watched the film for two reasons:
1) I saw that Colm Meaney was in the film.
2) Steve Coogan apparently resembles, at first impression, Dr. Carl Sagan, though that resemblance disappears upon closer examination.
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It was awesome, hilarious ride. Never felt like i was out of loop. Would love another one.📻
shareI'm an American who's never seen the show. I thought the film had some hilarious scenes but lost steam towards the end and could've used a trim (that singing in the car scene went on too long and just wasn't funny). Definitely worth watching once.
shareSee the show if you are able to. It's HILARIOUS! I was actually sent series 1 as an add-on when I was sent a copy of the Brittas Empire from a friend.
Also, there is a book. Something like "I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan."
Late to the party on this one, I'm an American reporting that I loved it! A few nights ago I started watching it alone, it cracked me up so consistently I only watched the first hour and decided to watch the film from the start with my wife the next night.
She... didn't like it. Ha. That's a phenomenon I've noticed that I can't quite explain, it seems American men are far more likely to enjoy British humor than American women. I think my wife doesn't like British humor (maybe this is due to the fact that we are Americans) because it requires paying very close attention. The jokes are so dry (not always) and the dialogue is often really quick. You can easily miss a fantastic joke if your not really tuned into it.
I probably missed some jokes myself as an American, I saw some comments that the ending dragged on a bit which I agree with, but overall: Fantastic film.
I'm American. I saw the Alan Partridge TV series (97-2002) and loved it.
The first 15 to 20 minutes of the movie I thought were great. I think the strength of the TV series though was just how absolutely mundane and real-world Alan's life and frustrations were. But in the movie they really decided to kick it up a notch with some action movie spoofs. It required a bit of suspension of disbelief to allow the comedy to happen. The cops didn't really act like real cops.
It kinda worked for Hot Fuzz (although deep down I didn't really like Hot Fuzz much either), but I feel like for Alan Partridge they really should have kept the subject matter of the movie absolutely mundane. It would have been risky and difficult, but I think it would have been more awesome and fitting for the Partridge character.
I laughed though.