Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

blanche-2 "Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie" from 2016 stars Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley - who else - and the rest of the cast from the TV show.Edwina (Saunders) is accused of pushing Kate Moss into the river, and probably killing her, during a party. Then Edwina and Patsy are afraid they've killed Bubble (Jane Horrocks) in yet another drowning, so they decide to leave the country. There is already a nationwide search for Edwina for Kate Moss' murder. They go to Cannes, taking Saffy's daughter Lola with them because she has credit cards. Patsy's plan is to look up a wealthy beau (Barry Humphries) from years ago and convince him to get married. Things take a decided left turn.There are many funny things in this movie - it's really for fans of the show, and if you're British it's even better, because many of the guest stars are famous in Britain and not here.If I'd paid $12 to see this, I would have been mighty disappointed, so I can understand the bad reviews. The cast is terrific, it was wonderful to see them all again, and Edwina's speech at the end is priceless. The guest stars don't add much, and as a feature film, it doesn't make it.This is a slightly longer TV episode with lots of guest stars thrown in, and that's about it.

Robert Riley I really don't understand all the complaints / negative reviews / low ratings. Maybe one has to be a true long-time fan of the TV Series - - From, as the kids once said, "back in the day." I can't imagine such fans - who have watched the show as it aired over the past 3 decades - would REALLY find this movie to be so bad that, as one reviewer put it, she/he walked out of the theatre (wasting $30+) after only 30 mins thinking, sarcastically, that there would be more laughs "at the local ambulance depot."I had been waiting for the movie for YEARS, as have thousands of fans, and when it finally came out I was so disappointed because of the reviews. I hadn't yet watched the movie, and was dreading it because of the negative reviews and comments. Then I watched it ... and was very pleasantly surprised. I take a lot into consideration when giving a 1 - 10 rating on IMDb; one of my considerations is - and I know it is rather vague - how the movie or TV show was "for what it is." For example, it is generally ridiculous to criticize an old scifi movie for bad special effects. One has to take into consideration factors such as the era, the budget, and more. AbFab The Movie is not scifi, obviously, but using similar methodology rating it for what it is, among other things, along with the jokes/humor, how it fits with the series, the acting, etc. ... And for me the movie was a 9. Yes, I'm biased as a long-time AbFab super fan and so, as I said earlier, maybe you have to be such a fan to appreciate the movie. That said, however, even in the case of someone who had never seen the TV show and knew nothing about Abfab ... I can't imagine that they would find the movie totally lacking in humor or merit. It's lighthearted entertainment ... never intended to be a masterpiece of cinema.

mark.waltz If this succeeds in anything, this big screen version of the 1990's British cult sitcom proves to me the ridiculousness of the fashion industry and the pretentious people who work in it. Leading ostentatious lives, these are the most absurd elements of society who thrive on drama and ridiculous trends. Jennifer Saunders and Joanne Lumley seem stuck in time which has marched on by and left them eternally corked. The entire family still lives together even though daughter Saffie obviously cannot stand her mother Edina. Now in her 90's, mother June Whitfield seems numbed by the absurdity of the situation. While funny on TV, Patsy and Edina seem out of their minds and just nasty in their big screen debut.Trying too hard to be gay and hip, that element of this film is overly obnoxious and stereotypical. They are cartoon characters in every way they can be. The premise of Patsy and Edina becoming notorious simply because they may or may not have been responsible for the accidental death of Kate Moss is ridiculous. Dizzy Bubbles wears the most absurd outfits with inflated hashtags on her top that I wanted to pop with that stupid selfie stick she carries around. The costumes seem like the aftermath of an explosion at "Wicked" backstage. With the trend of bringing back old shows either in TV or movie form, this should be the guide as to how not to do it. I found this almost instantly to be beyond crude and insipid.

Neddy Merrill 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.