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The Ab Fab Movie Trailer Is Here—and, Sweetie Darling, It’s a Gorgeous Mess

Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.

 

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A poster posted online a few weeks ago hinted as much, but with the release today of an actual full trailer, we can all exhale and throw back some Bolly: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is real, it’s finished, and it’s coming to theaters for your messy glam gal camptastic pleasure this July.

The trailer—which borrows many design cues from that other great act of gay-TV-to-gay-movie transposition, the Sex and the City films—confirms in an appropriately frenetic, slurring way the plot description we’ve been hearing since late 2015. Eddie (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumely) are on the hunt for a new client for the former’s D-list PR agency—specifically, Kate Moss. They find her at a swanky London fashion party, only for Eddie to knock her off the balcony and into the unfashionably chilly Thames. Now personas even more non grata than normal, the pair flee the U.K. for the south of France, where, Eddie points out: “Everyone’s a criminal.” Boozy, glittery, French-inflected hijinks ensue amid a bevy of celebrity cameos (oh hello, Jon Hamm) and appearances from the TV show’s other mainstays, including Eddie’s daughter Saffi (Julia Sawalha) and dear old mother (June Whitfield).

Compatriots of the twosome can catch them on July 1, while fans across the pond will have to wait until July 22, according to IMDB. Which is probably for the best, as I’ll need to pop by Harvey Nicks for a few things in the interim anyway.