Joanna Lumley
- 79 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
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Film 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 2016Review - Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
BBC comedy makes a wobbly transfer to the big screen but its two delicious lead performances keep the comedy fizzing along.
Jason Solomons, Reuters, 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 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 2016Ab Fab The Movie review: Patsy and Eddy turned up to 11 (Link expired)
Despite its flimsy plot, this remains worth seeing for the comic chemistry between Saunders and Lumley, which is as irresistible as it is hilarious.
Matthew Turner, WOW247, 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 2016'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 2016