Eddy (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) are still the same. Marshall is getting transgender surgery and cutting off the house payments. Lola is staying with her mother Saffy at the house. Of course, mother and Bubble are still around. Eddy's book deal falls through. She's desperate to get Kate Moss as a client but ends up pushing her into the Thames. With Kate Moss feared dead, Patsy loses her job and the girls escape to the south of France with Lola. Patsy is looking to marry rich Charlie from the old days.

Expanding a TV show into a theatrical movie is not always an easy task. The laugh track is gone. Even the old kitchen is gone. Like Entourage, this tries to fill up the empty spaces with cameos. Some are fine like Stella McCartney, Lulu, and Baby Spice who are all veterans of the show. Kate Moss is a good MacGuffin. However, the big screen is simply too big for the show. The best moments are the sharp jabs from the show's regulars. Eddy and Patsy fighting with Saffy is comfort food. Instead of trying to go bigger, it really should concentrate on the characters and their relationships.

Ab Fab is back as a movie and it is a glorious mess.

Eddy (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) are still partying and struggling to remain relevant. Eddy's tell all memoirs gets turned down by the publisher.

Worse at a star studded swanky party, Eddy ends up pushing Kate Moss into the River Thames.

With Kate Moss feared dead and Eddy blamed. She and Patsy head to Nice and try to lay low.

There are star cameos, a thin story and a scatterbrained approach to humour.

It would had worked better as an extended television episode but it fails to work as a movie.

The world has moved on, people are less interested in public relations and the high world of fashion. They regard it as a bit silly.

The film looks tired, Lumley and Saunders work well together but they are noticeably older.

Like the wealthy lotharios in the clubs in Nice, they have moved on to younger models leaving Patsy and Edina behind.

If this succeeds in anything, this big screen version of the 1990's British cult sitcom proves to me the ridiculousness of the fashion industry and the pretentious people who work in it. Leading ostentatious lives, these are the most absurd elements of society who thrive on drama and ridiculous trends. Jennifer Saunders and Joanne Lumley seem stuck in time which has marched on by and left them eternally corked. The entire family still lives together even though daughter Saffie obviously cannot stand her mother Edina. Now in her 90's, mother June Whitfield seems numbed by the absurdity of the situation. While funny on TV, Patsy and Edina seem out of their minds and just nasty in their big screen debut.

Trying too hard to be gay and hip, that element of this film is overly obnoxious and stereotypical. They are cartoon characters in every way they can be. The premise of Patsy and Edina becoming notorious simply because they may or may not have been responsible for the accidental death of Kate Moss is ridiculous. Dizzy Bubbles wears the most absurd outfits with inflated hashtags on her top that I wanted to pop with that stupid selfie stick she carries around. The costumes seem like the aftermath of an explosion at "Wicked" backstage. With the trend of bringing back old shows either in TV or movie form, this should be the guide as to how not to do it. I found this almost instantly to be beyond crude and insipid.