Jane Horrocks
- 60 years old
- English
- Actor
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie - review
Producers did not release the Ab Fab film to the critics ahead of its release yesterday, which is rarely a vote of confidence. Add to that the fact that it's a big-screen adaptation of a sitcom - a genre with a patchy track record, The Inbetweeners Movie notwithstanding - and that it uses the tired and tested plot device of plonking their characters somewhere foreign, and the signs are not encouraging. Yet despite such portents, Absolutely Fabulous is as much of a fun, raucous romp as fans would have hoped for - director Mandie Fletcher throwing proceedings into the preposterous story and high camp with as much vigour now as there was when the series started a rather incredible 24 years ago.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 2nd July 2016Film review: 'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie'
Structure is as much anathema to Saunders' writing style as it is to her alter ego's entire lifestyle; this is the comedic equivalent of paintball, and when her splatter-shots land, they do so to raucous effect.
Guy Lodge, Yahoo, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The movie - bolly good show!
The jokes spring out at you from our crumpled old friends, sharp and fresh and pleasingly tasteless.
Libby Purves, Daily Mail, 30th June 2016'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie': Review
"All I ever wanted was not to be fat and old!" cries PR guru and bad gran Edina Monsoon, bewailing the time when "the zeitgeist used to run right through me". As her best friend Patsy injects herself with Botox, flips through Tinder and quaffs Chanel No 5 because they've run out of Bolly, it's clear that writer/star Jennifer Saunders hasn't lost her touch over the quarter century since these characters were first conceived for TV.
Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous review
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is ridiculous, riotous and a bit of a mess but Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley save the day and raise our spirits when we need them the most.
Stefan Kyriazis, The Daily Express, 30th June 2016Review: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Fans are unlikely to be disappointed.
Charles Grant, Heat Magazine, 30th June 2016Ab Fab The Movie review: cameos drab, but leads are fab
No matter how much fashion has moved forward, Eddy and Patsy will always be in style.
Hanna Flint, Metro, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous the Movie: the magic is still there
Remarkably, the questions 'why now' or simply 'why' feel irrelevant when watching the Absolutely Fabulous movie.
Jim Palmer, Wimbledon Guardian, 30th June 2016Review - Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
In all, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is as hit and miss as the TV show was, once upon a time. Lumley shines, Saunders tries hard, but the thin story is against them from the start, as well as the feeling that we have seen all of this before.
Brogen Hayes, Movies.ie, 30th June 2016Review: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Celeb cameos galore - including one from a GSN staffer! - in this screwball comedy, but beware a lazy Caitlyn Jenner-inspired subplot, sweetie.
Jamie Tabberer, Gay Star News, 30th June 2016