There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Jennifer Saunders should be applauded for her efforts, but things did not come together in endeavor because the essential element that made her show successful, copious humor, was difficult to find. Given her pre-2012 specials, which easily could have been movies, the idea of making this film was certainly reasonable. After watching the movie, which I had highly anticipated, I was left a bit bewildered and wondering if I just missed something. I decided to watch the movie again the next day, this time looking specifically for the redeeming features. Rebel Wilson, in a fairly brief appearance, added the most humor to the film as the sassy flight attendant - and this is mostly where the humor ended. Julia Sawalha as always gave a fine interpretation of Saffy. Kathy Burke (Magda) and Chris Colfer did fine with what they were given, but were under-utilized given their strengths; the rest of the cast all gave reasonable performances. Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness as Jane was surprisingly good at her role and could easily have been given a greater presence in the film as well as more humor which I feel she would have delivered on. In the end however, the movie played out much more as a drama than a comedy. Sometimes these things work out and sometimes they don't. I will always remember and continue to watch the series, which is rife with humor. As for the movie, I have nothing but respect for Saunders, but instead of adding this one to my collection, it will enter the world of Ebay.

"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.

I own every DVD of every AbFab show, and I still enjoy them today as I did when they were on BBC. I wish I could rate this a 10, but I am being extremely generous rating it a 6.What went wrong: Jennifer Saunders wrote a weak script devoid of the essence that made the show what it was in the 90s. It actually started out pretty good. It opens at a fashion catwalk show, and the stumbling duo make a funny entrance. The film kept up that tone until Kate Moss lands in the water. Then, it's like we are watching another movie. Saunders reverts to a strong story-line, and the movie begins to go south from there on. The original show was never so much about the story as it was about the interaction between the cast members, the situations they found themselves in, (like in the Courtroom after being busted for something usually relating to drugs) as well as the slapstick antics pulled off by the fidgety, head shaking Saunders and the tramp, her pal Lumley; both were on a 24 hour buzz from the 70s, consuming every drug in the universe 24/7 to the point where walking was a full time job. Of course we can't ever forget about Bubble (Edna's PA). I haven't decided whether she was under utilized in this installment, or out to lunch. Either way, it was disappointing to me, because she was one of my favorite characters on the TV show. I also thought Saunders overdid the Botox. She was almost expressionless and appeared to be plastic with little of her former energy. When she fell out of her car as she did a thousand times in the TV show, we laughed. Now, it looked like it hurt, and it seemed difficult for her to do. Perhaps she was actually too fat at this point in her life, to comfortably play her fat self character Edna.The direction by Mandie Fletcher was embarrassing to watch. The script played out so convoluted, and disjointed, it might have been directed by Barnum and Bailey. However, the HD cinematography was spectacular, colorful, and beautiful to watch; the wardrobe was glorious, and so were locations chosen for the film.Also on the plus side, it was great to see the old gang back together again, and a special shout out to June Whitfield, who at 92 years of age, gave the best performance of the lot, and had lost none of her character's essence. Her performance, along with Julia Sawalha's surprising singing abilities, were bonus surprises that I truly enjoyed. I really hate to see AbFab go out like this, but you reap what you sew, and Saunders fell a bit short of being a master seamstress in this attempt at a modern day AbFab.

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)