Jennifer Saunders should be applauded for her efforts, but things did not come together in endeavor because the essential element that made her show successful, copious humor, was difficult to find. Given her pre-2012 specials, which easily could have been movies, the idea of making this film was certainly reasonable. After watching the movie, which I had highly anticipated, I was left a bit bewildered and wondering if I just missed something. I decided to watch the movie again the next day, this time looking specifically for the redeeming features. Rebel Wilson, in a fairly brief appearance, added the most humor to the film as the sassy flight attendant - and this is mostly where the humor ended. Julia Sawalha as always gave a fine interpretation of Saffy. Kathy Burke (Magda) and Chris Colfer did fine with what they were given, but were under-utilized given their strengths; the rest of the cast all gave reasonable performances. Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness as Jane was surprisingly good at her role and could easily have been given a greater presence in the film as well as more humor which I feel she would have delivered on. In the end however, the movie played out much more as a drama than a comedy. Sometimes these things work out and sometimes they don't. I will always remember and continue to watch the series, which is rife with humor. As for the movie, I have nothing but respect for Saunders, but instead of adding this one to my collection, it will enter the world of Ebay.

While the movie starts out a little slow, once it really gets going its amazing!! Obviously you have to have seen the show, its picks up right where the series left off. Everyone from the show is still there... patsy and edina are wonderfully trashy and tragic, her daffy mother is adorable and saffy is as big an awful buzz kill as ever. The ending is paying homage to a certain classic movie, I wont say which but its so fabulous!!

The series was very well written and was hilarious, but the movie suffers from a weak writing. There are some great ideas but they needed fleshing out along the insertion of gags to match the frequency and wittiness of the series.There is an inside joke that becomes a biting irony in that Jennifer Saunders had bet her long-time comedic partner Dawn French a considerable amount of money that she would have the script in her hands by a certain date. When the script arrived it had 30 pages of dialogue and direction, with the rest being page after page of "blah, blah, blah". This is directly touched on in the scene in the film and, frankly, most of the movie was "blah, blah, blah."Well, this is the last gasp of Ab Fab. There won't be another. It might have been better if they'd left it at the 20th anniversary episodes.

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.