Eddy and Patsy are still a blast, but too many tired jokes and celebrity cameos pad out a painfully-stretched film
Nearly 25 years since Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) first staggered on to our televisions, they finally make their big-screen debut. And like many TV spin-offs (most recently the Entourage film), material which worked in a 30-minute episode feels as painfully stretched as a botched facelift at feature-film length. Still, the booze-storming performances from Saunders and Lumley provide a welcome, if slightly sozzled, levity. The timing is fortuitous too – the film provides a champagne bubble of counter-programming for both the football-averse and the news-weary.
Directed by Mandie Fletcher, responsible for several Ab Fab television episodes, and written by Saunders, the film, like its subjects, is chaotic, frequently lazy and unhealthily obsessed with celebrity. Famous faces too numerous to list pop up instead of punchlines – this is comedy which leans...
Nearly 25 years since Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) first staggered on to our televisions, they finally make their big-screen debut. And like many TV spin-offs (most recently the Entourage film), material which worked in a 30-minute episode feels as painfully stretched as a botched facelift at feature-film length. Still, the booze-storming performances from Saunders and Lumley provide a welcome, if slightly sozzled, levity. The timing is fortuitous too – the film provides a champagne bubble of counter-programming for both the football-averse and the news-weary.
Directed by Mandie Fletcher, responsible for several Ab Fab television episodes, and written by Saunders, the film, like its subjects, is chaotic, frequently lazy and unhealthily obsessed with celebrity. Famous faces too numerous to list pop up instead of punchlines – this is comedy which leans...
- 7/3/2016
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
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