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Eddy (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) are still the same. Marshall is getting transgender surgery and cutting off the house payments. Lola is staying with her mother Saffy at the house. Of course, mother and Bubble are still around. Eddy's book deal falls through. She's desperate to get Kate Moss as a client but ends up pushing her into the Thames. With Kate Moss feared dead, Patsy loses her job and the girls escape to the south of France with Lola. Patsy is looking to marry rich Charlie from the old days.

Expanding a TV show into a theatrical movie is not always an easy task. The laugh track is gone. Even the old kitchen is gone. Like Entourage, this tries to fill up the empty spaces with cameos. Some are fine like Stella McCartney, Lulu, and Baby Spice who are all veterans of the show. Kate Moss is a good MacGuffin. However, the big screen is simply too big for the show. The best moments are the sharp jabs from the show's regulars. Eddy and Patsy fighting with Saffy is comfort food. Instead of trying to go bigger, it really should concentrate on the characters and their relationships.

Eddie and Patsy returns, the super smash hit comedy TV directed British TV comedy director, Mandie Fletcher who directed a few of the 47 episodes spanning twenty years, a few of Desmond's, some Blackadder, loads of Brush Strokes and most recently, a couple of Miranda's.

Comedy extraordinaire Jennifer Saunders writes her first screenplay off the back of a £100,000 bet with partner in crime Dawn French, but apparently at page 35, the rest just reads "blah blah blah..." Actually showing her comedy brilliance. I do wonder if Frenchie paid up.

All the key characters are there, Press Gang's Julia Sawalha, inflatable wearing Jane Horrocks' Bubble, June Whitfield actually turning 90 during filming and Kathy Burke reprises her role as the outrageously demanding Magda. Singer superstar Lulu, Spice Girl Emma Bunton, Peep Show's Robert Webb and Glee's Chris Colfer joins the cast.

Joanna Lumley still looks incredible for 70 (sorry JL!) but 70! Wow! Her Patsy character has always been my favourite and she seems to gets the most laughs. Saunders reprises her Edina without fault and I sometimes find it hard to remember what she's like in real life, expecting her to be Eddie full time.

The film introduces a young Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness this possibly being her acting debut which unfortunately shows. She's not bad but isn't convincing. Little else is known about her and I wonder how she got the part of Saffy's daughter.

There's plenty of product placement and branding, cameos galore, more cameos than actually extras and cast I think, many of them from the fashion world that I don't particular acknowledge, oh! Stella McCarthy. Who I do know is Joan Collins, Graham Norton, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Jerry Hall and even Dame Edna and a Timmy Mallet plus many more! Having such a long list of regal cameos proves it's for the older fans as I doubt many of these silver stars would be recognised by a younger generation. Then again, there's some sweeties for the kids, Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaid Aussie star Rebel Wilson, who's a massive fan of AF and begged to be in the film before hitting her own stardom; and of course Game of Thrones' Brienne of Tarth, the mighty Gwendoline Christie.

As expected, it has a silly story and a funny script. Eddie, hitting an all time low, runs out of money, kills Kate Moss and earns the hatred of the fashion world. Resulting in the duo to elope to the French Riviera. Quite a lot happens in the long 90 minute run time and is a little, all over the place, even for a comedy.

Nothing much of a soundtrack, and I was expecting more but it does suit the TV series. Just shame as many of these TV-to-film seem to take advantage and give themselves a decent soundtrack album. Didn't even notice anything of Jake Monaco's score.

Just wasn't funny enough, but maybe that's just me as a couple of people in the packed out audience just couldn't stop laughing. It's starts on a roll and then loses traction. I think my one time laugh-out-loud moment was Saffy's short but beautiful cursing rant and Patsy's reaction. Joanna Lumley was absolutely fabulous darling!

Running Time: 4 The Cast: 8 Performance: 6 Direction: 6 Story: 5 Script: 3 Creativity: 4 Soundtrack: 4 Job Description: 3 The Extra Bonus Points: 0

43% 4/10

If Edina and Patsy had come up with a get rich quick scheme which allowed them to do basically nothing, and have a free trip to Cannes, then I'm guessing they would have written a movie like this.

Absolutely no thought or labor went into the writing of the script, which relies heavily on the appearances of famous people throughout the movie to try and make it interesting.

There is a brief glimmer of entertainment when Barry Humphries makes little more than a cameo, but apart from that, this movie would rate lower than their worst ever T.V. episode.

In a way I feel like I've been sucked in to giving Patsy and Edina my hard earned money just to watch them do nothing in return. Is this the true form of art imitating life?

Now I think it's fair to say there isn't exactly a phenomenal success rate transforming sitcoms into movies, with the Office looming, it looks like a new trend. The main question I guess, does An Fab the movie hit the spot? The answer is yes to some extent, as a die hard fan it's helped fill the void since the last run ended. I imagine the world of PR is about getting celebritied up, and that's exactly how the film felt. More A Listers then you could shake a stick at, including the beautiful Kate Moss, as well as the usual series favourites, laughed at seeing the characters i guess for the memories they conjured up, such as the nurse, Marshall and Bo. Patsy and Edina provided the usual laughs and chaos, and the group of friends I saw it with all concurred, laughs for fun and sentimentality.

A film I very much looked forward to hugely and enjoyed, but please team bring us another TV series. One word on Joanna Lumley's figure, wow!!!

I loved the Ab Fab TV series. I still love it. But I didn't find this movie that funny. I could take it or leave it. It's not bad. The celebrity appearances are great. My favourites include Barry Humphries as an old, obscenely rich, sleazy former lover of Patsy's from the 1970s who she discovers is still picking up the gold digging young ladies in the south of France. And Jean-Paul Gaultier looks gleeful with his little role as a scavenger combing London river banks with a metal detector and re-selling on e-Bay the designer wares he finds. Rebel Wilson is funny as a campy airline hostess, and model Kate Moss also gives an affectionately satirical turn as, well, herself. Joanna Lumley as washed out magazine editor Patsy Stone is still very funny. The problem, perhaps, is that other main characters, especially Saffy (Julia Sawalha) and her mother, Eddie (Jennifer Saunders), haven't changed. Saffy does have a love interest, but she soon reverts to the irritatingly prim daughter she's always been. Although I did love the scene when she goes to a drag club to find Eddie's stylist -- it's quite touching. Eddie's secretary Bubble (Jane Horrocks) at least gets a more sinister edge to her character, but Eddie's mother (June Whitfield) gets lines that are too scatty and meaningless. I think fans will love this movie, but otherwise it's not a classic.

If this succeeds in anything, this big screen version of the 1990's British cult sitcom proves to me the ridiculousness of the fashion industry and the pretentious people who work in it. Leading ostentatious lives, these are the most absurd elements of society who thrive on drama and ridiculous trends. Jennifer Saunders and Joanne Lumley seem stuck in time which has marched on by and left them eternally corked. The entire family still lives together even though daughter Saffie obviously cannot stand her mother Edina. Now in her 90's, mother June Whitfield seems numbed by the absurdity of the situation. While funny on TV, Patsy and Edina seem out of their minds and just nasty in their big screen debut.

Trying too hard to be gay and hip, that element of this film is overly obnoxious and stereotypical. They are cartoon characters in every way they can be. The premise of Patsy and Edina becoming notorious simply because they may or may not have been responsible for the accidental death of Kate Moss is ridiculous. Dizzy Bubbles wears the most absurd outfits with inflated hashtags on her top that I wanted to pop with that stupid selfie stick she carries around. The costumes seem like the aftermath of an explosion at "Wicked" backstage. With the trend of bringing back old shows either in TV or movie form, this should be the guide as to how not to do it. I found this almost instantly to be beyond crude and insipid.