- Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks
- Language English, French
- Classification: 12
- Studio: BBC
- VHS Release Date: 1 Oct 1999
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CXK2
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13,417 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
- #24 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
From the Back Cover
During the filming of her very own documentary, 'A Day in My Life', Eddie drops in on her mother who's working in a Help The Aged charity shop. There she reminisces about the people and events which have made her what she is today.
The seeds to Eddie's personal problems were sown early and she can blame her mother for everything - from her birth to the size of her thighs. Her memories of school are a bit thin (she wasn't) but she remembers that even then Patsy always got more boys. No one could say Eddie's career has been easy - sometimes she's had to work all morning. But as anyone in PR knows - 'style is everything' - and it's hard to be stylish when none of your Lacroix will fit and you're 'fat, fat, fat, fat!'
If it's been hard living Eddie's life, it's even harder to find the meaning of it. She's tried every alternative therapy going, but as Saffy puts it, 'you can't become a better person through massage!'
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
This video is excellent if you want to 'have all the best bits' from the entire 3 series. But if your adding it to your Ab Fab collection don't expect much new material.. there's only 15 mins of it. Those few minutes though are still very funny giving us an insight into her mothers 'Help the Aged' charity shop and her criminally poor sense of fashion housing. Overall not really that bad, but could have been better...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
'Absolutey Fabulous - A Life' is one of the funniest video autobibographies about Edwina and Patsy's bizarra and whacky life together. A truely entaining look over the years for serious Ab Fab viewers to reflect, recall, and re laugh at, all on one excellent video. Even the new humor whereby Edwina sweety is stuck in her mothers Help the Aged charity shop looking at used batteries and copper bells provides a subtle form of humour which is indeed one of the many qualities of this series sucess. A must buy for any true fans of the series.
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