Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23566 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-02-05
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Running time: 30 minutes

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For Americans not familiar with the comic machinations of the oddball collaborative duo of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, this video is the perfect introduction. Taken from one season of their British sketch-comedy television series, this video contains a great variety of their work. Dawn French is probably best known in the U.S. for her PBS appearances on The Vicar of Dibley and Murder Most Horrid. In addition, she cowrote the disturbingly funny series Absolutely Fabulous, which is usually associated solely with Jennifer Saunders (who plays Edina).

French and Saunders excel at movie spoofs. Their talent for parody, combined with their excellent eye for wardrobe (notably the million hairstyles of Dawn French), make even their portrayals of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe realistic. They also include non-parodying sketches, two of the most hilarious being the original Absolutely Fabulous scene and a women's-magazine publisher sketch. Although sometimes their humor includes decidedly English gags and British personalities, the entertaining nature of the show is not truly compromised. Those who are familiar with the show will delight in the duo's talent at its best, and those not familiar will have a great entrée into the fantastically funny, bizarre world of French and Saunders. --Amanda Powter

Video Details
The comic duo behind Ab Fab bring their unique sense of humor to movies, music, magazines, and mid-morning television in this collection of classic spoofs. Includes Rock Stars and Their Toilets, Opera Divas, Womanly World, and the original Ab Fab sketch.

Review
This collection of highlights from the third series of French & Saunders balances the duo's penchant for trenchant Hollywood satire with their keen eye and ear for the contradictions of British culture. The movie spoofs are good fun, but the original characters trump them, from the overeating opera dilettantes who savage a Kylie Minogue hit to the hilarious talk show guest with a remarkable talent for stating the obvious. The entire family dynamics of Absolutely Fabulous are encapsulated in "Modern Mother and Daughter," while the pointed jabs at flacks, magazine writers, and '60s survivors anticipate the fashion-world backdrop of that celebrated series. (Alas, the drunken-biddy antics of Joanna Lumley's Patsy are conspicuously absent.) The early series of French & Saunders were a bit hit or miss, and the later ones a tad too glossy and parody-heavy, but the episodes excerpted here are from the program's prime. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Customer Reviews

F&S - Better than S&M!
"Gentlemen Prefer French and Saunders" is truly the best of the 4 F&S DVD's. I bought the "Set", and what a bargain! I watched the first three DVD's today, and laughed for hours. If you are looking for some silly, yet witty entertainment I suggest these DVD's. I have begun to refer to F&S as "Monty-Pyfemme. A wonderful addition to my growing BBC DVD library! Make sure to watch the bonus sections - usually they are the best parts.

OK
I would recommend this for hard core fans of French and Saunders. It's funny, but it's not as good as At The Movies or Living in a Material World.

If You Are a Fan
You can't live without this DVD!! Hilarious!! If you need your humour wet, enough to soak you with a super soaker...or shall I say, if that kind of thing amuses, you won't like this....but if your sense of humour is dry as the desert and you can understand heavy BRIT...you'll love THIS!!! Run and buy it!!