Just as we remember from the TV show sponger Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley) and her publicist best friend Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) are bumbling their way from glitzy get together to another still somehow in the limelight despite their obvious ineptitude. Eddy is now pushing sixty and has scarcely changed since she first appeared twenty something years ago except that she seems to have grown wider but as Patsy advises her waving dismissively at the image, “You don’t need those Eddy as I will be your mirror”. “How do I look then Pats?” “Fabulous.” but Eddy is not doing so well as the cash is drying up and when her memoirs are rejected by a publishing house things look grim until such time as she finds out the Kate Mass is changing her agent and so begins a desperate chase to ensure that Kate chooses her in order to safe guard the future of her company.

Unfortunately she is not the only one with these ideas and when, after a very funny encounter between Patsy and John Hamm, Eddy gets her moment she accidentally knocks Kate into the Thames where she is pronounced dead after a long search proves unfruitful. Pats an Eddy decide to escape the public backlash and go on the run to the South of France where they begin scheming on how to make themselves rich and set themselves up in the high life out of the public eye only to find out that the jet set lifestyle is not quite as glamorous as they thought. Needless to say it wouldn’t be true to character if they took it lying down so they will so whatever it takes to infiltrate the echelons of the rich and famous.

All the regulars are back with barmy PA Bubbles (jane Horrocks), Edina’s exasperated and completely square daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalha) and an introduction to her hipper granddaughter Lola (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness) who Eddy and Patsy drag along to France because they believe she is due a large inheritance, along with a host of cameos of varying degrees from stars of the fashion, film and TV industries.

If you liked the TV show then there is more than enough here that you will enjoy and there are some genuinely funny moments, the issue is it just felt like an hour and a half Christmas special in the vein of the Only Fools And Horses classics so there was no actual need for the movie and the story would probably have worked better on the small screen anyway but this is my only real gripe among the ninety minutes of fun.

DJ Speaks Rating: 5.5 Out Of 10