Several years on from when we last saw Patsy and Eddy, Patsy is still in her fashion critic role but Eddie's fortunes have waned. Her list of PR clients is limited and low-key and her memoirs are not going to get published. While attempting to gain Kate Moss as a client, Eddie accidentally pushes her into the River Thames. Moss does not reappear and Eddie becomes a murder suspect, and Public Enemy Number 1. To escape the publicity Eddie and Patsy head for Nice.Being a fan of the TV series I did not have great expectations for this movie. TV-to-movie conversions seldom work and in this case the TV series finished four years previously and was pretty much done long before that. In the end, I was right about the conversion aspect - there's not enough material to sustain a feature film and the movie is festooned with silly scenes to pad out the time. The characters haven't aged well, and Joanna Lumley's script has not really adapted to their aging, seeming to still be based in the 90s in terms of character traits. Saffy / Julia Sawalha and Bubble / Jane Horrocks are particularly hard done by in this regard. This said, its not all bad. There is a great swipe at the pretentiousness of the fashion industry and the superficiality of the media. There are also a few very funny moments. While the main characters feel like they're misplaced in time, and are living off old glories, some of the secondary characters make up for this. Kathy Burke as Magda is particularly entertaining.Ultimately quite uneven with just enough good bits to make it likable.

A movie produced on the same material 25 years after the heyday of a television show will take a toll on quality. At the time, the Dawn French / Joana Lumley show traded on its subversive material and outrageous performances. Since then the world has moved dramatically toward the outpost the two established for themselves putting the show's aesthetic somewhere in the middle of the culture. So relying on the same shock value jokes from the early 90's results in the film's now mildly eye-raising but still mostly funny lines. All of the standbys from the original appear: Eddie gives her daughter poor parenting advice, her daughter lectures her to be more conservative, Lumley pulls out her "Pat Stone" routine at one point, she blacks out, etc., etc., etc. Vintage stuff if a little worn. The softness of the script benefits from a very long list of cameos although American audiences will miss many of the local British faces who didn't quite become global names. In short, like "Zoolander 2", AbFab the movie relies more on nostalgia than good writing but for hardcore fans that may be enough.

I remember absolutely fab, from watching it on the TV, it was much funnier. Understandably this is a film and limited to a narrow story and film length, all in all a good representation and reflection of silly, "fasion" and so called "beautifull people" a film i would not watch twice but enjoyable for a distracting 90 minutes. my favourite character is saffy played by julia sawalha, i always have enjoyed her since her apearance in the 80s, the plot of the film is a mix of good old British comedy, with ignorant and empty headed fasionable air heads, that only worry about things that are surreal and stupid, money and greed is ever present in the film, taking of advantage of elderly people and gold digging are the means of survival for our two main protagonists, in essence a shallow make fun of the fasion world, that made me happy for a while, so recommended tee hee.......people should go back to watching videos of kittens, now bugger off...... (the last scene of the film, brilliant)

Absolutely Fabulous" becomes tiresome, even if you really like Saunders and Lumley, The script Should have left it in the waste paper bin where it was probably fished out by some bum licking BBC executive ,it is complete and utter rubbish , should appeal to the middle class wanna be yummy mummy types who hang around school gates annoying people with there ridiculous banter and gossip. The useless script, poor direction must have come from the ABC of crappy film making or straight from film school, this movie offers NOTHING I repeat Nothing To any part of society even if it was funny to which it is NOT , it would almost offer something. But it doesn't ..watch some old Ealing if you have an hour or two to spare and avoid this trash.