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Comedy

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

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Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they're accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing around London's trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!

Release Date : 2016-07-01

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : British Film CompanyFox Searchlight PicturesTSG EntertainmentDJ FilmsBBC FilmFrench & Saunders Productions

Production Country : United KingdomUnited States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Jennifer Saunders

Character Name : Edina Monsoon

Original Name : Jennifer Saunders

Gender : Female

Joanna Lumley

Character Name : Patsy Stone

Original Name : Joanna Lumley

Gender : Female

Julia Sawalha

Character Name : Saffron Monsoon

Original Name : Julia Sawalha

Gender : Female

June Whitfield

Character Name : Mother

Original Name : June Whitfield

Gender : Female

Jane Horrocks

Character Name : Bubble / Shirley Bassey

Original Name : Jane Horrocks

Gender : Female

Chris Colfer

Character Name : Christopher

Original Name : Chris Colfer

Gender : Male

Christopher Ryan

Character Name : Marshall

Original Name : Christopher Ryan

Gender : Male

Mo Gaffney

Character Name : Bo

Original Name : Mo Gaffney

Gender : Female

Kathy Burke

Character Name : Magda

Original Name : Kathy Burke

Gender : Female

Helen Lederer

Character Name : Catriona

Original Name : Helen Lederer

Gender : Female

Harriet Thorpe

Character Name : Fleur

Original Name : Harriet Thorpe

Gender : Female

Celia Imrie

Character Name : Claudia Bing

Original Name : Celia Imrie

Gender : Female

Robert Webb

Character Name : Nick

Original Name : Robert Webb

Gender : Male

Nick Mohammed

Character Name : Casper

Original Name : Nick Mohammed

Gender : Male

Wanda Ventham

Character Name : Violet

Original Name : Wanda Ventham

Gender : Female

Marcia Warren

Character Name : Lubliana

Original Name : Marcia Warren

Gender : Female

Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness

Character Name : Lola

Original Name : Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness

Gender : Female

Mark Gatiss

Character Name : Joel

Original Name : Mark Gatiss

Gender : Male

Barry Humphries

Character Name : Charlie / Dame Edna

Original Name : Barry Humphries

Gender : Male

Janette Tough

Character Name : Huki Muki

Original Name : Janette Tough

Gender : Female

Rebel Wilson

Character Name : Air Stewardess

Original Name : Rebel Wilson

Gender : Female

Rylan Clark

Character Name : Air Steward

Original Name : Rylan Clark

Gender : Male

Dawn French

Character Name : Interviewer

Original Name : Dawn French

Gender : Female

Lulu

Character Name : Lulu

Original Name : Lulu

Gender : Female

Gwendoline Christie

Character Name : Gwendoline Christie

Original Name : Gwendoline Christie

Gender : Female

Graham Norton

Character Name : Graham Norton

Original Name : Graham Norton

Gender : Male

Suki Waterhouse

Character Name : Suki Waterhouse

Original Name : Suki Waterhouse

Gender : Female

Lily Cole

Character Name : Lily Cole

Original Name : Lily Cole

Gender : Female

Jourdan Dunn

Character Name : Jourdan Dunn

Original Name : Jourdan Dunn

Gender : Female

Alexa Chung

Character Name : Alexa Chung

Original Name : Alexa Chung

Gender : Female

Stella McCartney

Character Name : Stella McCartney

Original Name : Stella McCartney

Gender : Female

Daisy Lowe

Character Name : Daisy Lowe

Original Name : Daisy Lowe

Gender : Female

Lara Stone

Character Name : Lara Stone

Original Name : Lara Stone

Gender : Female

Nick Grimshaw

Character Name : Nick Grimshaw

Original Name : Nick Grimshaw

Gender : Male

Kate Moss

Character Name : Kate Moss

Original Name : Kate Moss

Gender : Female

Miquita Oliver

Character Name : Miquita Oliver

Original Name : Miquita Oliver

Gender : Female

Alesha Dixon

Character Name : Alesha Dixon

Original Name : Alesha Dixon

Gender : Female

Emma Bunton

Character Name : Emma Bunton

Original Name : Emma Bunton

Gender : Female

Elly Jackson

Character Name : La Roux

Original Name : Elly Jackson

Gender : Male

Bruno Tonioli

Character Name : Bruno Tonioli

Original Name : Bruno Tonioli

Gender : Male

Kirsty Wark

Character Name : Kirsty Wark

Original Name : Kirsty Wark

Gender : Female

Kelly Hoppen

Character Name : Kelly Hoppen

Original Name : Kelly Hoppen

Gender : Female

Jon Hamm

Character Name : Jon Hamm

Original Name : Jon Hamm

Gender : Male

Jerry Hall

Character Name : Jerry Hall

Original Name : Jerry Hall

Gender : Female

Orla Guerin

Character Name : Orla Guerin

Original Name : Orla Guerin

Gender : Male

Suzy Menkes

Character Name : Suzy Menkes

Original Name : Suzy Menkes

Gender : Female

Sophie Raworth

Character Name : Sophie Raworth

Original Name : Sophie Raworth

Gender : Male

Kathy Lette

Character Name : Kathy Lette

Original Name : Kathy Lette

Gender : Female

Perez Hilton

Character Name : Perez Hilton

Original Name : Perez Hilton

Gender : Male

Jeremy Paxman

Character Name : Jeremy Paxman

Original Name : Jeremy Paxman

Gender : Male

Llewella Gideon

Character Name : Llewella

Original Name : Llewella Gideon

Gender : Female

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Character Name : Jean Paul Gaultier

Original Name : Jean-Paul Gaultier

Gender : Male

Christopher Biggins

Character Name : Christopher Biggins

Original Name : Christopher Biggins

Gender : Male

Judith Chalmers

Character Name : Judith Chalmers

Original Name : Judith Chalmers

Gender : Male

Joan Collins

Character Name : Joan Collins

Original Name : Joan Collins

Gender : Female

Abbey Clancy

Character Name : Fashion Show / Huki Muki Attendee

Original Name : Abbey Clancy

Gender : Female

Camilla Rutherford

Character Name : Fashion Show / Huki Muki Attendee

Original Name : Camilla Rutherford

Gender : Female

Ozwald Boateng

Character Name : Fashion Show / Huki Muki Attendee

Original Name : Ozwald Boateng

Gender : Male

Poppy Delevingne

Character Name : Fashion Show / Huki Muki Attendee

Original Name : Poppy Delevingne

Gender : Female

Sadie Frost

Character Name : Fashion Show / Huki Muki Attendee

Original Name : Sadie Frost

Gender : Female

Tinie Tempah

Character Name : Fashion Show / Huki Muki Attendee

Original Name : Tinie Tempah

Gender : Male

Brix Smith-Start

Character Name : Fashion Show/Huki Muki Attendee

Original Name : Brix Smith-Start

Gender : Female

Alex Jones

Character Name : Alex Jones

Original Name : Alex Jones

Gender : Female

Pandemonia

Character Name : Huki Muki Attendee

Original Name : Pandemonia

Gender : Male

Shinji Ishigaki

Character Name : Japanese reporter

Original Name : Shinji Ishigaki

Gender : Male

Reviews

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Frank Ochieng

@Frank Ochieng

2024-05-16

Well, Britain’s bombastic booze-loving fashion figureheads are back for some familiar naughty fun and frolicking for committed _AbFab_ fans to rejoice. So brace yourself “sweetie darlings” as TV-based drunken divas Patsy and Edna make their boisterous and cheeky return to the big screen in the off-kilter and shrewdly amusing **Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie**. Clearly, ardent followers of the _AbFab_ dipsy duo will embrace the further hazy-minded exploits of Edna Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and Edna Stone (Joanna Lumley) as they are given permission at the box office to create more large scale chaos that laid the feisty foundation for their high-wire antics on the boob tube from the early 1990’s. The movie adaptation of **Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie** stems from the highly popular British sitcom originally aired on the BBC network. Saunders, the creative mastermind behind the pop cultural _AbFab_ phenomenon that started out as a French & Saunders (as in Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders) sketch soon found its free-spirited footing as a television series that would repeatedly return into the fold for many years until dismissing production in the summer of 2012. Now four years later Saunders and Lumley are back as the alcohol-sipping, flamboyant fashionistas embroiled in yet another scandalous romp. As loyal and nostalgic _AbFab_ enthusiasts already acknowledge the premise involves the London-based lushes in middle-aged divorcee Edna (“Eddy”) and hanger-on Patsy—both curiously successful in the local fashion industry despite their heavy-handed indulgences. Both rough-around-the-edge women are hardened in drinking, chain-smoking, shopping, clubbing, and man-hunting while trying to desperately cling to their youth-oriented recklessness. Somehow Edna and Patsy manage to juggle their high-powered fashion careers with the extreme cartoonish vices that make them rather…er, colorfully erratic. Of course the running gag in the off-balance jocularity centered in _AbFab’s_ riotous storm is the sensible yet long-suffering Saffron (Julia Sawalha), Edna’s grounded daughter that had been forced since childhood to keep her protective eye on her self-destructive mother and her smashed cohort Patsy whenever they get into the latest saucy mess that has been initiated by their hilarious hedonism. Often reluctant in totally tolerating Edna’s chaotic whims poor Saffron is forced to be the headstrong “mother figure” to the inebriated woman-child (and her surly boozy buddy Patsy) that is the wacky woman she calls Mom. No doubt that **Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie **will fill the empty void for the demanding comical outlandishness that defines British TV’s beloved foul-mouthed fashion plates. The swinging and sordid sensation that is the tipsy tandem is even more pronounced than ever. Director Mandie Fletcher skillfully fleshes out the over-the-top impishness of the flighty AbFab leading ladies and encourages the fun-loving damage and disarray to unfold as only Saunders’s Edna Monsoon and Lumley’s Patsy Stone can instinctively muster up in inspired insanity. Set against the eye-popping background of exotic locales and basking in splashy and unconventional wardrobes **Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie** dutifully reinforces the intoxicating zaniness that had made Edna and Patsy the celebrated cockeyed cougars within the realm of applauded _AbFab_ fandom. It is still a welcomed revelation to witness the party-hearty maturing misfits revel in animated bad behavior. Indeed, Edna and Patsy are still trying to live the high-life as they frequent various fashion events around town. However, the reality is that Edna is financially strapped as her PR firm has not been profiting richly for her. When your clients only consist of has-been songbirds Lulu and Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton then it is certainly time to hit the panic button. Still, this does not stop Edna and Patsy from making their unruly presence known throughout the fashion scene around London. At one particular fabulous party the mischievousness heightens when Edna accidentally sends supermodel Kate Moss reeling into the Thames. Believed to have perished as the result of this clumsy incident Kate is pronounced dead and Edna is arrested and scrutinized. This, of course, causes a public relations nightmare for Edna, Patsy and Edna’s granddaughter Lola (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness). The paparazzi (you know…the menacing media hounds known as today’s “villainous vultures”) are increasingly intrusive to the point that Edna and Patsy flee to the South of France to escape the glitzy backlash. Anyone not acquainted with the hovering lunacy in the _AbFab_ universe will probably see this film as an extended TV episode catering exclusively to the show’s devoted fanatics (they would not necessarily be wrong about this assessment). The on-going jokes, sight gags, chippy dialogue and the assembly line of noted cameos throughout **Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie** may be perceived as a stretched-out, tired gimmick. Actually, this “reunion” of sorts is a refreshing throwback for the AbFab diehards that viewed the devilishly free-wheeling Edna and Patsy as liberating and truthful broken women in all their comical debauchery. Thankfully, both Saunders and Lumley have not lost a step in portraying their characters’ juicy narcissism, self-indulgence and sense of entitlement. In fact, **Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie** and its television blueprint from yesteryear serve up an unassuming commentary about aging womanhood and its vulnerability in a progressive, young-minded world. In a global society that visually and psychologically recognizes youth culture and external beauty the raucous tendencies of Edna and Patsy are quite understandable as their detestable tendencies are a way of numbing their unacceptable realities—as older women in denial while afraid to let go of a wild youth-oriented existence now realized as a mere reminiscence. Perhaps **Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie’s** 90-minute running time is too excessive for the random high jinks of Saunders’s and Lumley’s titillating teammates. Plus, the aforementioned cameos that include a who’s who from either side of the pond are gleefully stuffed in the plot to help along the off-the-wall, padded proceedings. Among the Hollywood and fashion personalities that turn up for igniting this revisit to _AbFab_ craziness include Emmy-winner Jon Hamm, LuLu, Stella McCartney, Chris Colfer, _Game of Thrones’_ Gwendoline Christie, Jerri Hall, Suki Waterhouse, Barry Humphries, Joan Collins, Mo Gaffney, Dawn French, talk show host Graham Norton, Emma Bunton, Alex Jones—the list of notables seems endless. At least _AbFab_ sycophants (casual or hardcore) can boast that their cherished drinking damsels Edna Monsoon and Patsy Stone are more naturally engaging and stimulating in the satirical cinematic setting of fashion than say the two mediocre movie outings of _Zoolander_ featuring the forced buffoonery and insufferable mugging of Ben Stiller’s Derek Zoolander. In hindsight, let’s stick with the entertaining substance abusing sass of Britain’s delightfully decadent fashion floozies. **Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie** (2016) Fox Searchlight Pictures/DJ Films 1 hr. 30 mins. Starring: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Kate Moss, Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness, Julia Swalhala, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks, Chris Colfer, Kate Moss, Jon Hamm Directed by: Mandie Fletcher MPAA Rating: R Genre: Comedy Critic’s rating: *** stars (out of 4 stars) (c) Frank Ochieng 2016

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Reno

@Rangan

2024-05-16

**A guide to how to get away with a murder!** I have never seen the original television series, but I came across and found it interesting to try, only to realise in my watch that it was not what I thought of it. Yeah, definitely my disadvantage was that I didn't know the characters, the universe and all the basics. Those who loved the show might enjoy it better, since they know what to expect from it. I was like looking for a proper intro. The introduction of everything, as I'm not familiar with anything out of it. But it did not come, the story just went on and on from the opening itself. I was confused what's going on, who is who and et al. It took almost half of the film to be comfortable with the scenario of the tale. Once I was there, I thought it was funny in places, yet I did not feel like to have a laugh. Again, I blame myself for missing out the fun for not knowing them very well. It never occurred to me before. I have seen many films that proceeded by its television series which I haven't seen. It looked short and the pace was excellent, so I did not get bored, except not getting the overall film properly. Otherwise, I would have rated it better. I think the people like me should be careful while picking it. Other than that it is an okay film, not a bad film. _5/10_

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-01-02

I think to be fair, the television series that ended four years earlier had already recycled these scenarios once to often, so by the time we got to this there was actually very little room left to innovate with these well tired characters. The no longer very outrageous "Edina" (Jennifer Saunders) can't get her "blah blah blah" memoirs published and is running out of money whilst the Champagne swilling "Patsy" (Joanna Lumley) isn't much help. They go to one event run by "Magda" (Kathy Burke) and somehow Kate Moss ends up in the Thames. Accusations fly and soon our dynamic duo are on the run to the Cöte d'Azur to avoid charges of murder! Once there we enjoy the usual drug/drink fuelled party and casino humour with some guest appearances from the likes of Barry Humphries, Lulu and finally Marcia Warren as their possible route back to the lives they used to live - and we used to laugh at. Mandie Fketecher has managed to amass a fairly impressive catalogue of super models, the odd British B-lister and a few other familiar faces but I found the joke just tired. Long-suffering daughter "Saffy" (Julia Sawalha) is just too used to all her mother's daft antics by now, mother (June Whitfield) and her disdainful looks have rather lost their sting and the usually lively "Bubbles" (Jane Horrocks) is just under-used as the lacklustre story skirts the realms of farce. They even updated the "Wheels on Fire" at the end... Sorry, this is nobody's finest work and rather turned the Bolly of 1992 into a distinctly flat Cava in 2016.