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Charlie's Angels [2000]


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Amazon.co.uk Review

Happily Charlie's Angels is a surprisingly successful TV-into-movie update of the seminal 1970s jiggle show. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore (who also produced) and Lucy Liu star as the hair-tossing, fashion-setting, kung-fu fighting trio employed by the mysterious Charlie (voiced by the original Charlie, John Forsythe). When a high-tech programmer (Sam Rockwell) is kidnapped, the angels seek out the suspects, with the daffy Bosley (Bill Murray in a casting coup) in tow. A happy, cornball popcorn flick, Charlie's Angels is played for laughs with plenty of ribbing references to the old TV show as well as modern caper films like Mission: Impossible. McG, a music video director making his feature film debut (usually a death warrant for a movie's integrity), infuses the film with plenty of Matrix-style combat pyrotechnics, and the result is the first successful all-American Hong Kong-style action flick. Plenty of movies boast a New Age feminism that has their stars touting their sexuality while being their own women, but unlike something as obnoxious as Coyote Ugly, Angels succeeds with a positive spin on Girl Power for the new millennium (Diaz especially sizzles in her role of crack super agent/airhead blonde). From the send-up of the TV show's credit sequence to the outtakes over the end credits, Charlie's Angels is a delight. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com


Beautiful women kick ass & rock
Review date: 2008-08-09 Rating: 8 out of 10

And that's the whole of the script! Inspired. It's great fun, very entertaining. Sorry about the spoiler.

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A creative Difference
Review date: 2007-10-07 Rating: 6 out of 10

We are all familiar with the TV series.... The movie is better than the show. It has a believable plot and all the girls seem to work well together, instead of just jiggle (Though it is here). There is a lot of action in this movie. The girls look like they had fun in this movie, especially Cameron Diaz. The Martial Arts fights are campy, but done in the Chinese tradition of high flying. If you sit down to watch the film and take it as the fun that was intended, you'll love

Good Adaptation of the series
Review date: 2007-05-23 Rating: 8 out of 10

Okay, so, there are times when I am a sucker for movies based on television shows. Seeing as how I was a huge fan of the original television series, I decided to give this one a try and I was not disappointed.

At least with the movie, they had a bigger budget to make the action sequences a lot more enjoyable and Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu do a fine job as the three newest Charlie's Angels.

The only one they bring back from the television series, though, is John Forsythe, the voice of Charlie. That seemed rather fitting, although I'm not sure why the chose Bill Murray to play Bosley, unless it was for comic relief. The small role of thin film enacted by Crispin Glover of Back To The Future fame is very significant and should have had greater exposure.
I love those camera shots where you see freeze frames with the actresses swishing their hair..very corny but really pleasant.

Bilge!
Review date: 2006-11-20 Rating: 2 out of 10


Some films are made out of a passion for the subject material, a genuine love of the characters, and a desire to showcase an idea.

Some films are made purely to make money at the box office.

It doesn't take a genius to say which banner this one comes under.

I actually had the misfortune of watching this at the pictures. I wish I'd spent the time doing something more enjoyable - like counting how many grains of salt I could squeeze under my eyelids.

I can't see any redeeming factors in this film - it has nothing to do with the original TV series.

This film is so bad that in parts it looks like a spoof - but it isn't a clever parody, it takes itself seriously!

The film seems like disjointed sketches thrown together with a plot so thinly veiled that it makes a net curtain look like a triple folded towel.

A group of people sat round a table and decided on what they wanted in the film to stick on adverts and draw in the crowds, they put it in a film and it didn't matter what the script/plot was like - as long as people pay the money to get in and watch it.

I was thinking about watching the sequel this weekend, but I'm too busy suspending myself from a tree with sharpened hooks through my elbows. It'll be less painful than sitting through the pouting, grinning, cheesefest that is Charlie's Angels 2.


Great update and transfer to the big screen.
Review date: 2006-11-01 Rating: 8 out of 10

Having watched the First Season of the 1970s TV series immediately before this film I appreciated what a fine job Director McG does of updating the TV series to the big screen thirty years on whilst retaining the spirit of the original.

The original TV series was pure entertainment all about style, beautiful girls, paper thin plots and girl power, and Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu deliver these qualities in abundance. Bill Murray does not seem completely at home as Bosley but his part is relatively small.

For those that can unwind and enjoy action as entertainment this film is sheer bliss.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Lucy Liu
Drew Barrymore
Cameron Diaz
Sam Rockwell
Bill Murray

Creators:
Cameron Diaz (Primary Contributor)
Drew Barrymore (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
EAN: 5035822907737
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2001-07-16
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 99 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2000-11-03
Language: English (Original Language)
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Language: Spanish (Original Language)

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