I am a big fan of the series, often peed my pants laughing because of the quality comedy of the two leads and everyone around them. So with that in mind I was a bit scared to go watch the movie, as we have been served movies-from-TV-shows and they are seldom a good addition to the archive. If you haven't seen the series, don't bother watching the movie, you will not understand it if you don't already know the characters.
Of course there are a lot of jokes and some reference to the series and Edina and Patsy are still absolutely fabulous. We get served a lot of characters from the series and things go extremely south rather quickly, like the series. Some slapstick from Patsy made me laugh out really loud in the cinema.
Because it's a movie everything is bigger: the sets are bigger, the story is bigger (is Kate Moss really dead?), the cast is bigger etc. About the latter: at a certain moment you are just waiting for the next cameo, it gets distracting. And there are quite some continuity mistakes, that always distracts me too.
What seems to be the problem is by making everything bigger, they seem to have forgotten what the strongest part of the series was: the dialogues or monologues with the bitchy remarks back and forth. I missed that. There are some, but not enough, it feels like they had to make way for yet another fabulous set or for the faster pace of the story. Pity.
All in all, I will always love them, but this movie wasn't necessary. For their effort and for the opportunity to get a bit more Absolutely Fabulous, 7 out of 10. But I'm being really kind.
Of course there are a lot of jokes and some reference to the series and Edina and Patsy are still absolutely fabulous. We get served a lot of characters from the series and things go extremely south rather quickly, like the series. Some slapstick from Patsy made me laugh out really loud in the cinema.
Because it's a movie everything is bigger: the sets are bigger, the story is bigger (is Kate Moss really dead?), the cast is bigger etc. About the latter: at a certain moment you are just waiting for the next cameo, it gets distracting. And there are quite some continuity mistakes, that always distracts me too.
What seems to be the problem is by making everything bigger, they seem to have forgotten what the strongest part of the series was: the dialogues or monologues with the bitchy remarks back and forth. I missed that. There are some, but not enough, it feels like they had to make way for yet another fabulous set or for the faster pace of the story. Pity.
All in all, I will always love them, but this movie wasn't necessary. For their effort and for the opportunity to get a bit more Absolutely Fabulous, 7 out of 10. But I'm being really kind.