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This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The acting in this movie is really good.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

When a minor character has the one funny bit out of the entire film, you know it wasn't written well. One line, out of the entire film, was funny.Bo and Marshall are especially terrible, thanks to the script. They shined in a prior bit, with the televangelism. Too bad they're given nothing of value to work with this time. Lumley is wonderful but she's given nothing funny to say or do. Even the bits she does have are often completely recycled. The entire thing seems like a long commercial for a film that is going to be made sometime in the future, when Saunders decides to care enough to work at it like she once did, long ago.I have written funnier (prototype) AbFab scripts myself in practically no time. How much time did Saunders put into this? 15 minutes?The format has nothing to do with the TV series. As I said, it's like a long commercial — a trailer masquerading as a movie. The filming is all very pretty and glamorous but nothing interesting happens. All the characters are looking back at themselves, obliquely, instead of charging forward into new development.Lumley clearly is begging for a vehicle for her enthusiasm and talent. I can write one; Saunders cannot. It's bizarre, too — because at her peak she was the better writer. The original series, except for the last episode or two, was so brilliant.Aside from the aforementioned singular funny line, which aged badly upon seeing the film a second time — there was one scene-stealing bit of body language humor from an even more minor character. Too bad that the scene collapsed into bad writing in short order.

This movie is one of the worst movies I've seen. Me and a friend, both of us are die-hard fans went to see this...movie. Not one single time we felt close to a laugh. We're from Denmark, and this movie reminded us about all those really bad danish comedy movies from the 80's with bad jokes, bad music, bad cuttings and bad everything. It's unbelievalble thats this movie is written by the same person who wrote the absolute fabulous TV-comedy. But then again.. It's seen before and It's well-known that comedy-shorts became flops when transformed for cinema. Laurel & Hardy, mr. Bean and others are on that list. So be warned! I really felt I wasted my money on this movie. It's bad.... really bad, and It's hard for me to understand that Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley could do this. But then again.. money has It's own way to persuade. Unfortunately I was persuaded to waste both time and money on this dilettante show.

I own every DVD of every AbFab show, and I still enjoy them today as I did when they were on BBC. I wish I could rate this a 10, but I am being extremely generous rating it a 6.What went wrong: Jennifer Saunders wrote a weak script devoid of the essence that made the show what it was in the 90s. It actually started out pretty good. It opens at a fashion catwalk show, and the stumbling duo make a funny entrance. The film kept up that tone until Kate Moss lands in the water. Then, it's like we are watching another movie. Saunders reverts to a strong story-line, and the movie begins to go south from there on. The original show was never so much about the story as it was about the interaction between the cast members, the situations they found themselves in, (like in the Courtroom after being busted for something usually relating to drugs) as well as the slapstick antics pulled off by the fidgety, head shaking Saunders and the tramp, her pal Lumley; both were on a 24 hour buzz from the 70s, consuming every drug in the universe 24/7 to the point where walking was a full time job. Of course we can't ever forget about Bubble (Edna's PA). I haven't decided whether she was under utilized in this installment, or out to lunch. Either way, it was disappointing to me, because she was one of my favorite characters on the TV show. I also thought Saunders overdid the Botox. She was almost expressionless and appeared to be plastic with little of her former energy. When she fell out of her car as she did a thousand times in the TV show, we laughed. Now, it looked like it hurt, and it seemed difficult for her to do. Perhaps she was actually too fat at this point in her life, to comfortably play her fat self character Edna.The direction by Mandie Fletcher was embarrassing to watch. The script played out so convoluted, and disjointed, it might have been directed by Barnum and Bailey. However, the HD cinematography was spectacular, colorful, and beautiful to watch; the wardrobe was glorious, and so were locations chosen for the film.Also on the plus side, it was great to see the old gang back together again, and a special shout out to June Whitfield, who at 92 years of age, gave the best performance of the lot, and had lost none of her character's essence. Her performance, along with Julia Sawalha's surprising singing abilities, were bonus surprises that I truly enjoyed. I really hate to see AbFab go out like this, but you reap what you sew, and Saunders fell a bit short of being a master seamstress in this attempt at a modern day AbFab.

It's been a long time coming. Glad it finally happened! It was everything the series was and more. The ability to make comedy out of tragedy is the epitome of comic genius and Jennifer Saunders proves that is exactly what she is, a comic genius. The style of comedy in the series and this movie is eccentric and unlike anything else ever written. If you don't get it, that's too bad, because it's hilarious. The juxtaposition of frivolity and the seemingly halfhearted search for enlightenment in a world that is anything but enlightened, the irony of Edina's daughter being the only voice of reason in her life, the best friend playing the part of the blind leading the blind, all culminates in a soul searching moment that lasts about as long as it takes to realize she is on top of a world she doesn't fully understand but embraces anyway. While watching you really get a sense of Jennifer imagining that she could have everything she ever wanted, and making fun of it all at the same time. This final chapter in the story is the perfect ending to a fantasy world that deserved the international Emmy it achieved.