- Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks
- Language English, French
- Classification: 15
- Studio: BBC
- VHS Release Date: 24 Jan 2000
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CR3Z
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26,642 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
- #34 in Film & TV > Television > TV Series > Absolutely Fabulous
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Absolutely Fabulous was first broadcast in 1992 and became an instant hit. Originally a sketch on the French and Saunders Show, Jennifer Saunders saw its potential and created one of the most ground-breaking and debauched comedies on British TV. Centred around the hip London fashion scene the series follows Edina (Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley), two women who refuse to grow up and are constantly on a mission to lose weight, gorging themselves with cocaine and/or champagne, endlessly throwing parties (or throwing up at parties), and sporting outrageous outfits which were the height of fashion at the time--honestly sweetie! The superb comic performances offered star status to Julia Sawalha as Edina's straight-laced daughter and Jane Horrocks as the sublimely dippy Bubble, and re-invented the careers of Joanna Lumley and June Whitfield. Saunders meanwhile secured her status as one of the top female comedians Britain has ever produced. Although its consciously chic clothing looks a little dated now, its mad characterisations endure and the jokes remain as hilariously slick and apt as ever.
Ab Fab remains a landmark in TV since it was the first time that female comedians and writers had had the freedom and exposure to satirise problems close to their own heart, from their own perspective. With Feminist writers claiming that the ideals of feminism were dead in the 1990s and that female concerns were moving in the wrong direction--towards the "Laddette Culture"--and reports claiming that careers were taking a central role, forcing motherhood onto the back-burner, the series sought to embody and satirise these new supposedly "female" characteristics. As the show continued to grow in popularity both in Britain and the States, plans were made to transfer the formula to America. However, as with many other great British series, the content was considered too risky for American audiences due to the amount of sex and drug references. Thus domestic audiences breathed a sigh of release that their beloved Ab Fab would forever stay British to the core. --Nikki Disney
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Ab Fab was a classic from the moment it hit our screens, and this box set provides hours of amusement. The juxtaposition of a Peter Pan mother and a much too mature daughter, along with Joanna Lumley's alcoholic, drug-addled Patsy, makes for a hilarious sitcom. Between Edina falling out of a taxi, Saffy undoing her top button, and Patsy on HRT, there's hardly time for your sides to stop aching.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
I think this was a brilliant comedy series that was quite sureal but also at the same time brillliantly funny. The realism side is not very prominent for instance the situations that happen and the fact that Jennifer Saunders is only ten years older than Julia Sawahla yet plays her mother. The performance's are the best things about this, Jennifer Saunders is hilarious and i cannot stop laughing at her when she's on screen and the same goes for Joanna Lumley, as for the others Jane Horrocks is particulaly impressive as the overly dim and eccentric Bubbles. This series is a laugh a minute not just for some of the witty humour but with some of the physical comedy.
Format:VHS Tape
A Fabulous collection of all the antics from edina and patsy.
Each series gets better and better its just class.
A definately must have set for all the ab fab fans out there.
Each series gets better and better its just class.
A definately must have set for all the ab fab fans out there.
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Published on 20 Dec 2004
the name says it all!
Absolutely Fabulous really does describe this brilliant dvd! i bought it a couple of weeks ago from amazon and i've already watched all 24 episodes from the 4 series'. Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2004 by Mr. G. J. Morgan
A good value product, that is full of laughs.
Ab Fab is an original, creative and imaginative series, that contains laughter all the way through. It is good value for money and pays it self back with humour and great story... Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2000
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