Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
- 2016 film
Big screen spin-off featuring Jennifer Saunders's riotous PR girl, Edina Monsoon, and best friend Patsy Stone. Also features Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield, Chris Colfer and more.
- Repeated Thursday 5th December at 10pm on BBC3
Streaming rank this week: 10,728
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'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie': film review
An endearing shambles, much like the original show.
Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter, 29th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie - review
British sitcoms face particular challenges when they attempt the big screen, since the charm of our comedy is that it tends to be small scale, low-budget and full of interestingly unglamorous people. Ab Fab largely escapes that parochial feel thanks to its implausibly wealthy fashion setting, yet this chaotic stumble onto the big screen somehow still comes close to disaster.
Helen O'Hara, Empire, 29th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie - wearing its yeas well
The plotting is lazy, but this big-screen reboot of the much-loved sitcom gets by thanks to its stars and to the endless goodwill cameos.
Donald Clarke, The Irish Times, 29th June 2016Benedict Cumberbatch turned down a role in Ab Fab movie
The Sherlock star was too busy to join Patsy and Eddie's big screen caper, reveals Joanna Lumley, but his mum Wanda Ventham cameos instead.
Radio Times, 28th June 2016On the set of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Patsy and Edina are back on the Bolly. But with cameos from Kate Moss, Gaultier and Alexa Chung, have they got too cosy with the world they're satirising?
Hannah Marriott, The Guardian, 28th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous: who was the real Patsy Stone?
When Lauretta Sullivan Feldman died in 2010, the few obituaries of her that were published described her as "the widow of Marty Feldman". What many missed is that Sullivan, the Bristol-born daughter of a butcher, was largely responsible for Feldman's success in America and ended her life as one of Los Angeles's most beloved and quietly influential cultural figures.
But did this impossibly glamorous woman also play a part in the creation of Absolutely Fabulous character Patsy Stone?
Alice Vincent, The Telegraph, 28th June 2016Three rules the Ab Fab movie must follow
Spin-off movies of TV sitcoms do not have a great track record - and many of them fail for the same, endlessly repeated reasons.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 27th June 2016Jane Horrocks hints Ab Fab movie appearance may be last
Jane Horrocks has hinted her outing as Bubble in the Ab Fab movie, released next month, will be her last.
Nicola Methven, The Mirror, 24th June 2016Joanna Lumley: political correctness makes comedy hard
People take offence at the smallest things, which used to be just funny.
Daniel Welsh, The Huffington Post, 24th June 2016Patsy's best one-liners
To gird our loins for the return of PR's most disruptive trailblazers, we're warming up by a roll call of Patsy's most zinging one-liners.
Caroline Frost, The Huffington Post, 13th June 2016