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Absolutely Fabulous - Complete Series 5Rating:
Release Date: 16 March, 2004 Retail Price: $34.98 OUR Price: $27.98 You SAVE: $7.00! Cast: |
Absolutely Fabulous - Complete Series 5 Reviews
Essential Hilarity. A must for all AbFab fans and newbies..
I spent all day Christmas laughing my arse off! Eds and Pats are at it again and truly funnier than before. Earlier reviewers have been less kind and I think too critical. It's best to watch AbFab with a group. You'll then see how some people get the jokes and others do not. Maybe the earlier reviewers just didn't 'get' all the jokes. I think I did though! Season 5 is sooo good I'm buying it today! Go get it and save it for a day when you feel clinically depressed. Pop it in the player and voila! Instant healing via Edina & Patsy... Laughter, it's the best medicine!
ABSOLUTELY
It was discouraging to read disparaging remarks here on Amazon concerning censored segments in the 5th season DVD collection of "Absolutely Fabulous", because I noticed a rude editing job during what was apparently a missing "Chicago" parody, and Deborah Harry is credited with singing the theme song which, here, is an instrumental. Strange, because I sort of liked the organ blues melancholy sound of the new instrumental theme until I realised it was in lieu of Deborah Harry's vocals. I don't like watching the show on the Oxygen cable network because there is a lack of respect for the program with crass, indiscriminate commercial interruption and an inferior video quality. So it seems it is only a matter of cost saving that these segments are missing, and it is ironic that a show which so boldly mocks greed in capitalism would find itself victimized by it. Even that though, can't stop me from singing the praises of Jennifer Saunders, creator, star and writer of the series. "Absolutly Fabulous" still stands alone in the American television wasteland as sharp social satire that manages to retain that essential element of the best sitcoms - a heart. In our cardboard cut-out, eternally politically dull sitcom saturated TV, it is a sigh of relief to find comfort, warmth, and familiarity in an alcoholic, a drug addict, insincere Christian born-agains, and the like of a more real modern life. And the program always looks so good, with bold colors, elaborate sets, and constant movement like a gentle heart beating frantically. At near the end of this collection, I was very worried that a beloved character had actually expired. That I could care about any fictional character on TV as deeply as I did watching this, is testement to the fine craft of this program. But first and foremost, this show is just so (darn) funny.
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