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This Time with Alan Partridge (2019)
A shadow of former glories
I don't think it's as awful as some here are saying but also really struggling to understand the amount of top score reviews it's gotten here and elsewhere. Like every AP vehicle since "I'm Alan Partridge" there are occasional flashes of what used to make the character great but they are only flashes. Overall it's perfectly watchable but I just can't see where the rave reviews are coming from. It contains precious little of the delusional bombast of days of old and without that it's actually as much melancholic as funny to watch at times. I can only assume for those fans (and I am a huge one) giving it high scores that It's perhaps similar to watching your favourite aging sports champion who refuses to hang it up, it's realistically a shame to watch compared to the past but since you're so fond of them there's a little part of you that wants to believe they can still be as good as they were all those years ago, thus you deny the clear evidence in front of your own eyes that they peaked a long time ago.