Spent the afternoon at the Riverside to catch the Ab Fab Movie. Reasonably good fun though not quite as sharp as the earlier episodes of the TV series – it was spikier then. Kathy Burke steals the few scenes she is in and Jennifer Saunders is still an excellent physical comedian. There were still one or two sharp observations but the satire around celebrity culture seemed a mixture of genuine piss-take and grudging respect. Still don’t think Joanna Lumley is as funny as many critics however and she certainly doesn’t save the film, as some have intimated. Worth a watch, but it’s a little stretched, even at less than 90 minutes. But better than it probably has a right to be.
