Absolutely Fabulous - Complete Series 1-3
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Movie Reviews of Absolutely Fabulous - Complete Series 1-3
Movie Review: fabulous
Summary: 4 Stars
very good product packaging, just that they said it would arrive at one date and it actually arrived almost one month EARLIER! But that's a good thing, right?!Movie Review: Please Help: is this DVD the same?
Summary: 5 Stars
Can anyone tell me if this DVD set is a repackaging of the very same DVD's sold a few years ago as the Ab Fab "Complete DVD Collection" that had a martini glass on the cover? Are SUBTITLES avaialable on this set? And does this set have the original opening and closing theme song "This Wheel's on Fire" opening and closing each episode. The previous DVD set by Warner Home Video did not, as they were too cheap to pay the rights. "This Wheel's on Fire" sets the mood so well.Movie Review: AB FAB with an extra disc
Summary: 5 Stars
What do you get when you put the worst of the 60's, 70's and 80's and set it in the 90's? Well it must be Absolutely Fabulous.
Disc One: Complete Series 1
Fashion - We meet Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders), her daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalhia) and her best friend Patsy (Joanna Lumley). Edina and Patsy are putting on a fashion show (which we never see.)
Fat - An old chum, who is hyper critical, is visiting Edina. Edina is too fat and she will do anything to loose weight except diet or exercise.
France - Patsy and Edina are going to France on holiday but they don't speak French! When Saffy finds out that Bubble has received a notice that Edina needs to sign, they travel over. The four of them sharing the small cottage is just hilarious. But Patsy is in for the big shock when she returns home, she enjoyed ping pong without drugs!
Iso Tank - Hey, Edina is into every new fad and so she has bought an isolation tank. Saffy and her friends are getting ready for a school presentation. So Edina and Patsy decide to embarrass her by attending the presentation. Well Patsy is really after Saffy's hot study mate. At the school, the ladies are asked to meet with the headmaster and he turns out to be an old mate of the two.
Birthday - It's Eddie's 40th birthday --- do I need to say more. Well, the fun is we meet Eddie's two exes and their current mates. Mo Gaffney makes her first appearance and the mate of Eddie's first.
Magazine - Eddie has a boyfriend and Patsy is no longer the center of her life. So Patsy is determined to break them up but Saffy wants them stay together. We find out that Patsy actually has a job and we meet the members of the magazine.
Disc 2: Season Two
Hospital - Patsy, once again, is involved in a political sex scandal. She has sold her story to Hello magazine (UK equivalent of People.) But the interviewer makes a statement about Patsy's age, she flips. Edina is having a problem with her big toe and needs surgery, so Patsy decides to join her with some plastic surgery. The two wreak havoc on the hospital.
Death - When Eddie's father dies, she shops. In the end, she and Patsy show up at the burial in their usual state, totally smashed.
Morocco - Eddie is promoting a new trashy sunglass. And Patsy has put them in a photo shoot. The shoot is in Morocco, so party time. Saffy is study the area and she convince her mother to tag along. The girls are expecting a week of sex, drugs and shopping.
New Best Friend - Eddie's old friends are visiting again, this time with their new born baby. This time though, Patsy is not so tolerant and decided to prove that Eddie can be replaced. After Eddie finds baby puke and Lacrois don't mix, she goes looking for Patsy. This ends in a restaurant with Eddie and Patsy trying to impress each other with their new best friends. Miranda Richardson and Lulu make guest appearances.
Poor - When the exes compare notes, they both realize that they are both supporting Eddie and cut her off. So Saffy cuts off Eddie's extravagances. So instead of using a car service, Eddie buys a sports car. And she and Patsy go on their version of a Thelma and Louise spree.
Birth - Saffy and Eddie are awakened by the fire department to find out that their kitchen has gone up in flames. And Patsy makes a startling entrance. When the girls accidentally get locked in the living room, each remembers their birth.
Disc 3: Series 3
Doorhandle - A few years have passed but Edina still hasn't fixed her kitchen and Saffy has had it. Eddie and Patsy set out to find the perfect doorhandle and Eddie remembers seeing it in NYC,
Happy New Year - Patsy and Eddie are going to an exclusive New Years Eve party at a club so exclusive that it has no name. Saffy, her grandmother, her father and his lover are celebrating at the flat. But when Patsy's older jet set sister unexpectantly arrives, Patsy is first overjoyed then shocked at her change.
Sex - The girls are planning an orgy with a couple of rent boys and remember the good old days when sex was everywhere. Saffy's group is preparing a presentation on DNA and things get crazy when Saffy's presentation video and Patsy's homemade porn video get mixed up.
Jealous - It's the PRPR awards and Eddie is expecting to win the top prize. But when her chief rival wins, Edie goes into a rage. At the next meeting, she tells off the entire group in what is one of the most unlikely and selfless speeches Eddie will ever make.
Fear - Saffy has moved in to the halls of residence at the college and Eddie is at ends - she cannot even open a can without help. And things are going bad for Patsy, the magazine has folded. But is it good news when she gets an offer at magazine in NYC? Eddie thinks it is and forces Patsy to accept it.
The End - Patsy is in NYC and Eddie is at a retreat searching for inner peace. Well, she finds it on top of a skyscraper in NYC - that's where Patsy has accidentally lock herself on. The end black out scene is 25 years in the future and it isn't pretty!
DVD EXTRAS:
Each season disc has 16 minutes of hilarious outtakes.
Disc 4: Gorgeous Little Things
How to be Absolutely Fabulous - This is a 25 minute special for the launch of Season 3 on Comedy Central. It is a great promo video.
Ab Fab Moments - This is a real waste of time. You have just watched 9 hours of Ab Fab and now you can watch 1 hour 17 minute clip show.
Modern Mother and Daughter - The original 8 minute French & Saunders sketch that Ab Fab was based on.
Let's Get Celebritied Up - 15 second read bios on the top guest stars.
Who's Who on Ab Fab - 30 second read bios on each of the recurring stars of the show.
It's a Fabulous World - 20 second read descriptions of locations that the show was set and filmed.
Movie Review: Laugh out Loud Funny
Summary: 5 Stars
Who could be more talented than Jennifer Saunders? She not only stars in but also writes this hilarious British comedy about two women approaching 40 who refuse to grow up. They are contrasted well against a ultra-straight 16-year-old daughter who plays a parental role with her mom.
At times this series is over-the-top; it reminds me a bit of Faulty Towers in that respect. But like FT, you simply can't find better British humor than this.
Sigrid Macdonald
Ottawa, Ontario
Movie Review: AB FAB = AB Workout!
Summary: 5 Stars
My abs hurt and tears were running down my cheeks from laughing so hard for so long! I purchased this series for a friend's birthday gift and we watch it together, since I do not own a tv. Godess Bless!! This is one program that makes me want to own a tv! I love it as much as the rest of the "cult" television series: "Twin Peaks", "Northern Exposure" and "Six Feet Under".