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Absolutely Fabulous - Series 4 - Complete [DVD] [1992]

DVD ~ Jennifer Saunders
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  • Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks
  • Format: Box set, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, French
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 8 April 2002
  • Run Time: 180 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005UO3M
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,980 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 opularity 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. --N!ikki Disney



Video Description

DVD Special Features:
Commentary by Jennifer Saunders and the Producer, Jon Plowman
12 Minutes of Out-Takes
Behind the scenes interviews
Includes the Pilot Episode: Mirrorball (transmitted 22/12/00)
Photo Gallery
Scene Selection

Subtitles: English SDH
Dolby Digital Stereo
Regions 2+4
Running time: 174 mins approx

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Money, Tickets, Passports..., 29 Dec 2001
By Du Terroil Rene Marion "Mario Cibelli" (Florence, Italy) - See all my reviews
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The best thing about this collection, is that to fully enjoy you need to watch it over and over again.The writing is so good and so full of double entendres and exceptionally quick jokes that you need to keep watching. Also, for me each one of the epsodes in Series For, really builds on the one before it, so watch them in order. The weakest episode is umber 2 - Fishfarm with Helen Bohnam Carter's cousin. I am torn between the episode of Saffys autobiographical play and the Menopause Anonymous meeting on Eddies new furniture.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THEY'RE BACK!, 3 May 2006
By Ian Phillips (Bolton, Lancashire, UK) - See all my reviews
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Absolutely Fabulous returned in late 2001 with a fourth season, five years after The Last Shout (1996) special had aired which was ultimately intended to conclude the series once and for all. However in 2000 the cast of Absolutely Fabulous were reunited in a one-off comedy special, Mirrorball which had won rave reviews and was not a bit unlike Absolutely Fabulous in its tone. Having each enjoyed working together again, Jennifer Saunders decided it was time to put pen to paper and began writing a fourth series of this unbeatable sitcom that won countless awards during its run in the 1990's.

The fourth season opens a little disappointingly with Paralox. Edina is due to appear on a British morning television show with the pretentious celebrity, Katie who is played fantastically by the astoundingly multi-talented, Jane Horrocks (who also plays Bubble in the series, the blatantly incompetent P.A to Eddy). Feeling as though shes looking old she hesitantly turns to her vile best friend, Pats who comes up with the hideous idea of using paralox to try and make her look younger. Joanna Lumley reprises the role of Patsy with a vengeance and is equally hilarious in her characterisation as she always was. This episode is lacking something though and the punchy and witty one-liners don't roll along quite as thick and fast as they once had. Times had changed and evidently so had the progamme with Jennifer Saunders clearly having adopted a more diverse approach to her writing in an effort to keep up with the ever changing times and trends of the day.

Fish Farm, sees the series enter full swing again and there are even points in this episode which harks back to the good old days of the series. Edina discovers a dishy, aristocratic gardner who she (through a comic misunderstanding) presumes is worth a fortune and so reluctantly sets out to seduce him at the persistent urge of her scavanging, selfish best friend, Pats. There are some hilarious moments here and the dialogue rides along like a roller coster with all the jokes perfectly timed and delivered deliciously from the stars of the series.

Paris is self explanitory as the gang heads off there for a photo shoot Patsy is assigned to work on as an ageing model whilst Eddy and her poor, put upon daughter, Saffy (Juila Sawahala) begin to finally bond as mother and daughter... that is until they reach the top of the eiffel tower and Eddy shrewdly tricks Saffy into exposing her breasts for all to see in an effort to be "more with the times darling" as her mother says. Classic stuff!

Donkey is slow moving and is one of the weaker episodes in the series where Eddy desperately trys to conjure up a new, fit healthy lifestyle of exercise and eating the right food in a bid to boost her self confidence and become slim. Ideas seemed to be wearing thin as this subject had been touched on before numerous times in the origanal three series but in its favour does hold enough laughs to see it through.

Small Opening is of good value where Eddys daughter, Saffy takes the play she'd written about her life, which largely draws on her complex relationship with her mother to the stage and Eddy is not in the least bit happy.... until she goes to see the play herself and ends up striking up a friendship with the actors much to Saffys dismay.

Finally the series ends on a high with the hilarious, Menopause where Patsy and Eddy join the laughably titled, Menopausals anonymous. American comedienne Ruby Wax guest stars in this episode and was involved in the series constantly having been a script editor through each season. The ending which shows Patsy and Eddy as old women is classic stuff and will undoubtedly have you in stitches.

Despite a few patchy moments, series 4 of this masterpiece comedy is another rollercoster ride of fun, games and laughs and makes for essential viewing with all the actors glowing in their parts.


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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars SIN REALLY IS IN!, 27 Jan 2002
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Darlings, this series of Absolutely Fabulous is one of the best to date. With all abfabs, the episodes are outrageously funny. The good thing about Jennifer Saunders acerbic writing, is that she can pick up the 'happening' trends and make them hilarious. The favourite episode for me this series has to be Small Opening. Its classic abfab. If you want to laugh till it hurts, you need to buy this fab series.
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1.0 out of 5 stars !!!absolutely not funny!!!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not fabulous at all
Dear oh dear. Every single episode in series 1, 2 and 3 was a classic, and then came along series 4. Yep, it's completely outrageous, but is it funny? No. Read more
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