Synopsis
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!
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Cast
- Jennifer SaundersEdina Monsoon
- Joanna LumleyPatsy Stone
- Julia SawalhaSaffron Monsoon
- June WhitfieldMother
- Jane HorrocksBubble / Shirley Bassey
- Chris ColferChristopher
- Christopher RyanMarshall
- Mo GaffneyBo
- Kathy BurkeMagda
- Helen LedererCatriona
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
Ultimately though, it’s all secondary to Saunders and Lumley’s riotous chemistry together. - 70
Screen Daily
Amidst an orgy of cameos and spiked with more than a few stinging gags, the further travails of Patsy and Edina as they battle irrelevancy is bright, light entertainment, even though it never quite makes a convincing case for itself cinematically. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Stuffed to its statement earrings with celebrities, fashion folk and comedian chums making cameos, this breezy blast of bawdy jokes and Bollinger product placement should lift spirits in a post-Brexit Britain. - 70
Variety
Sometimes bloody good fun is enough. It’s as good a reason as any for making this sunny, silly rallying cry for irresponsibility, and a better one still for watching it. - 63
Miami Herald
Absolutely Fabulous works best consumed bite-sized; there’s not enough here to warrant a full-length movie. Too much feels like padding. - 60
The Guardian
Reasonably good fun. - 60
Empire
It's scatty, scrappy and thoroughly OTT, but then that's like the characters themselves. - 60
The Telegraph
While you can’t imagine the film ever making it to Cannes under anything other than its own steam, the jaunt proves to be a surprisingly worthwhile one.
