It’s coming soon sweetie darling! Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (full trailer)

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Appropriate for their big screen debut, Edina and Patsy (Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley) are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more! (synopsis via Coming Soon)

“Darling, sweetie, darling, is it really such a bad thing if we, you know, killed Kate Moss?”
“Yes, darling, I think it is. For one thing we’re getting trolleyed on Twitter – we’re pariahs!”
“Hmm, yes. Then there’s nothing for it – pass me the bloody Bolly.”

And that is, in essence, how Edina and Patsy, who first staggered drunkenly to fame in a 1990 sketch on the French and Saunders show – star of Ab Fab, as it is commonly and affectionately known, Jennifer Saunders has worked with comedic partner Dawn French since the late 1970s when they met at theCentral School of Speech and Drama – and went to infamously funny fame and glory for years afterwards.

And as you’d expect darling of two women more familiar with drugs, glamour, and alcohol than an actual workable sober life, when fate most foul befalls them, their hilarious solution is to flee to somewhere rich to escape it all.

As you do when a crisis hits.

No facing up to responsibility or reality for them – I mean, where would the fun in that be?

If the opening scene of the trailer is any indication, where Eddie falls out drunkenly out of her car and into some bushes, a nod to the first episode of the show back in 1992 – “That long ago, darling? Why you don’t look a day over 38, sweetie.” “Thank you. Yak botox darling. Very in right now.” – the pair mean to go out as they came in, drinking Bolly and giving the finger to propriety, even as they desperately try to fit in with the very glam set that often spurns them.

If this laugh-inducing trailer is any guide, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie could be one of those few TV to film adaptations that actually works and has us laughing and spilling the “Champers Pats” all the way to the French, bloody, Riviera darling.

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie opens in UK on 1 July 2016 and USA 22 July.