Absolutely Fabulous the Movie

Absolutely Fabulous the movie 2016

• Director: Mandie Fletcher
• Based on novel: no
• Cast: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Lulu, Kathy Burke, Celia Imrie and dozens of cameos
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Jennifer Saunders – Absolutely Fabulous
• Joanna Lumley – Absolutely Anything, Absolutely Fabulous, Ella Enchanted, Cold Comfort Farm, Shirley Valentine, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
• Jane Horrocks – Sunshine on Leith, Absolutely Fabulous, Gracie, Born Romantic, Little Voice, Life Is Sweet
• Julia Sawalha – Absolutely Fabulous. From Lark Rise to Candleford, Cranford, In the Bleak Midwinter
• June Whitfield – Doctor Who, Absolutely Fabulous, Friends, Jude
• Lulu – Whatever Happened to Harold Smith, Absolutely Fabulous, To Sir with Love
• Kathy Burke – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky, Once upon a Time in the Midlands, Elizabeth, Absolutely Fabulous, Nil by Mouth, Sid and Nancy
• Celia Imrie – Mamma Mia Here We Go Again, The Best Exotic Hotel Marigold 1 & 2, Cranford, Nanny McPhee, Wah-Wah, Daniel Deronda, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Calendar Girls, Absolutely Fabulous, Hilary and Jackie, In the Bleak Midwinter, Frankenstein, Upstairs Downstairs
• Why?  The series
• Seen:  19 July 2019

 They haven’t changed, Eddy and Patsy. They’re still outrageous, drunk, appallingly vulgar, convinced they’re the height of cool and still chasing celebrities who are desperate to avoid them.

Saffy is still rebelliously conventional, living at Eddy’s again with her daughter Lola whose father has returned to Africa.

Bubbles still runs things and is as simply and sombrely clad as always (that’s a joke).

There is a story there somewhere. Probably. Maybe. There are celebrities galore, I’m sure but I only recognise a couple of them. John Hamm. Lulu. I’ve heard of Kate Moss but didn’t know what she looked like. There are dozens more that I don’t recognise but who are no doubt famous.

Oh, I see. The story is that Eddy has killed Kate Moss and everyone hates her. Stella McCartney has thrown a brick through her window.

The highlight is Saffy singing in a drag night club but otherwise the film is just silly. Half-hour episodes – absolutely. Ninety-minute film? Well, no.

But because the characters are who they are, and the actors do what they’re so good at and because there are some laughs

3 * of 5