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Summary: The Angeles Are Back - In Style! Go Drew!
Review: McG (Hot Wheels, Fast Lane) directed this sequel to his first film which was well received but the critics and the public. This film has the same flashing cuts, shots and fast action that it is really eye candy for the audiences.The other thing this movie has going for it is the ability to make the absurd fun and believable in the story of the movie. It is funny and sharp and it looks like all three angels are having great fun doing this movie. Cameron Diaz (Shred 1 & 2, Vanilla Sky) , Drew Barrymore (E.T., Everafter, Batman Forever) and Lucy Liu (Chicago, Kill Bill, Alley McBeal) are fantastic, funny, witty, sharp and energetic. They bring color and amazing electricity to the screen. Drew and Cameron look like they have known each other for years. And Drew really shines in this film with an emotional side that saves the lives of her co-workers. Now this movie has agreat villan and played by a talented and fine looking actress named Demi Moore (GI Jane, Hunchbakc of Notre Dame) Demi is funny and amazingly evil. (Not to mention she looks good in a bikini on the beach! Her ex - Bruce Willis (Die Hard 1, 2 & 3) even makes an appearance..although short. Crispen Glover (Back To the Future, Willard) is cleverly back as well as Mat Lablanc (Lost In Space, Friends) from the first film. They are hysterical. John Cleese (Die Another Day, Harry Potter 1, 2 & 3) and Robert Patrick (Terminator 2, X-Files) are new comers who add to the story and are quite funny. The worst part of the movie was Bernie Mac (Life, Oceans Eleven). Why was he cast as Bosley? Why him? Gross! I know there was a problem with the studio or stars about Bill Murry - But he was a much better Bosley. Just ignore him......and the movie is really good. The DVD extras are amazing. Deleted scenes, costumes, special effects, bloopers and behind the scenes of the stunts and cycles are amazing Just as fun as the movie itself. Watch all of it too! This is a good movie and DVD to have! (11-12-03)
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Summary: Too Matrixy
Review: A lot more unrealistic action sceens, and a whole lot more sexual situations. To quote Roger Ebert, I felt like I was watching a 2 hour long commercial for the Maxim magazine. But since I had "expected" it to be ridiculus......I enjoyed it!!! This is a good movie, but Charlies Angels part one had a much better storyline. If you can't afford to buy both, then purchase part one instead of part two.
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Summary: preposterous, nonsense, but still a lot of fun
Review: Bigger, louder, more preposterous than the first movie, yet it slips in and out of your head about as easily. In this episode (movie, I meant movie!!) the angels must recover two rings upon which are encoded the names of thousands of innocent people currently in the Witness Protection Program. Should both rings fall into the wriong hands (the same hands - the code requires both rings) the lives of innocents will fall to the whims of the evil crime lords who put then away. One of these dark figures is an Irish enforcer with a link to the past of one of the angels. But an even darker force is at work pulling the strings... ...which is as good an excuse as any to craft a film that alternates between stylized action sequences (with the angels fighting in mid-air, flying off buildings, speeding cars or helicopters) with countless visual gags (the Olsen twins as future Angels; the Angels as nuns; Cameron Diaz as a teenager, complete with nightbrace!; Bernie Mac as the new Bosley) and TV in-jokes (Starsky and Hutch's car; Mr. Rourke's car from "Fantasy Island"; the steel-welders from "Flashdance") and Hollywood cameos (Bruce Willis looking older than he can; Carrie Fisher as Mother Superior; Bela Karolyi as Lucy Liu's coach). This is the sort of nonsensical Hollywood action epic that we thought only existed as jokes on sitcoms. It's a lot of preposterous fun, not dampened for those who caught the first movie. If the flick is less-then-perfect, we can blame Demi Moore as a former Angel now working for herself, a performance that is conspicuously bloodless in an otherwise pumping flick. Crispin Glover is back (which kind of makes you wonder what exactly happened at the end of the last movie) but not as much psychotic fun as in the first movie. The flick has John Cleese as Lucy Liu's father who somehow gets the idea that his daughter is some kind of high-priced call-girl (a running joke that gets tired fast) while Shia LeBouf ("Holes") rounds out the cast as a member of witness protection who gets taken in by the angels, but is otherwise wasted. Though little more than an extended music video, "Angels" has a message for those who must have one: the Angels never use guns! If you've got your friends (and some Kevlar), you're more powerful than a horde of gun wielding psychotics. With its visual gags, this is definitely the flick to get in widescreen.
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Summary: Fallen Angels
Review: Pushes the stupid button so often that it is painfull to watch-if you think I'm being harsh-my 14 year old son passed on watching this for the cartoon channel. So much for the draw of T & A.
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Summary: Too unrealistic
Review: Oh My god, what a total waste of time and money...I watched it last night and it embarrased me, the quality of the movies are at an all time low. Its like a plague that has all the producers and even veiwers screaming and hooting for stupid impossible stunts...For instance in the ending two people fall off a 15 story building and they both survived...it was a sign that killed them when it fell from the same location...I have to also say that the dvd does not have any fun bonuses and i would not even consider ever watching another CA movie ever again...
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Summary: Watching a video game = no fun!
Review: This is bad! Lots of action, lots of FX, lots of noise - but makes no sense. The action is SOOO over the top, it is like a video game; the only place you could watch this stuff and buy into it. The problem? Unless you control the joystick - its stupid to watch! I like Barrymore, Diaz and Liu, but all they do here, is change clothes, speak in third-grade-level double entendres and hang from invisible wires. (Damn Crouching Tiger ...!) John Cleese? Why is he here? They don't even give him a funny line! Bernie Mac (God Bless Him) tries really hard, but he is fighting a losing battle. Crispin Glover? Can anyone explain to me what/who he is in this movie? I still have no clue. An Demi Moore? Well, she looks great and actually injects the most life of anyone into this puddle-deep film. Her revenge? She got lots of s**t for her 12.5 mil. payday for the awful Striptease. BUT ... Cameron Diaz got 20 mil. for this!
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Summary: it was painfull to watch angels this time
Review: This is the worst movie I have ever watched.. It was far from the first one, the story is weak and unbelievable ... it does not have a contincency, action scenes are terrible .. the only good thing is for this movie is the fabolous Demi Moore.. One wonders what happened to the angels in time.. there was a scene between Drew and old angel from the series and you realized there, these angels simply won`t do, they are lack the beauty... especially Ms.Diaz....
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Summary: Kelley Garrett...you go girl!!!!
Review: Although, this sequel is more entertaining, I guess, than the first one, I find the movie a bit too loud (or am I just too old for this new angels?). But it is a pleasure to see the ever gorgeous Jaclyn Smith as Kelley Garrett. But what's missing in this film is Kelley doing some action! Kelley Garrett is the most adept in martial arts and a sharp shooter among the angels.
Sadly, she didn't do much in the movie. A lot of her fans are so annoyed and dismayed not seeing her in action at all. The producers and the director didnt realized how important for the film to explore this aspect. I mean, we are talking Charlie's most important Angel in this film. Anyway, it's great to see the angels again and hope to more next time....
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Summary: One star for the soundtrack, one for the effort.
Review: Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle It should have worked. It had all the elements of success: a hot cast, nostalgic appeal, a retro '80s soundtrack, and plenty of action (the self-parodying, deliberately over-the-top kind). But somehow, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle missed its mark by a mile. The sequel to the original Charlie's Angels movie has the sexy trio trying to recover two stolen rings that hold the secrets of HALO, a witness protection type program. Naturally, the bad guys are after the rings as well, which are being held hostage for the highest bidder by a mysterious third party. Along the way, the Angels get into plenty of covert ops that require high-tech stakeouts, lowbrow cheesecake, thrilling chase scenes and spoofy kick-bum, incredible (literally, not to be believed) fight sequences. To complicate matters, the girls are each dealing with domestic and romantic entanglements in their private lives and personal demons. In the end, a big moral lesson is learned by all. Now I realize that this type of movie is not to be taken seriously; it was after all written to be a comedy. Even a comedy, however, needs a little more substance than the thin plot of CA: FT. It could be forgiven its other mistakes if only it managed to be funny on some level, but instead, we're left with that vague feeling that our intelligence was just insulted. Even a cast with greats like John Cleese, Lucy Liu and Bernie Mac couldn't salvage the bad script, lack of plot and downright unfunny sitcom-style jokes. Need examples? Here: John Cleese plays Liu's dad visiting from out of town, who runs into her boyfriend unexpectedly. In true predictable tv style, the boyfriend lets slip her "secret" profession in just such a way that dad misinterprets and thinks she's a call girl. From then on we are haunted by the painfully unfunny running joke as Liu and boyfriend innocently deliver one double entendre after another to poor suffering dad who's trying to be a good sport about it all. Oh, the hilarity that almost ensued! Bernie Mac is the new Bosley. This normally brilliant comedian is reduced to a hammy, self-conscious buffoon that seems to have no real pupose in the organization except perhaps to underscore how smart the Angels are. Bosley fumbles around incompetently while the girls are out getting the job done, ha ha. None of Mac's wit or wordplay is showcased here. Why oh why was this done to Bernie?!? To top it off, the "chemistry" between the Angels is forced and syrupy. None of them manage to pull off convincing emotional interactions, but ironically this appears to be the one serious concept the writers were trying to convey. . After I heard the "we're a family" line for the umpteenth time I just wanted to throw the Dvd case at the tv screen. If it weren't for the fact that Kill Bill was released months after, I would have accused CA: FT of trying to tap into this newly-created ultraviolence/comedy genre (but of course failing). Thanks Columbia Tristar for wasting yet another two hours of my life that I won't get back!
-Andrea, aka Merribelle
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Summary: Demi Moore is Back!
Review: The girls are back... not a big deal. Demi Moore is back... a palpitation of universes! "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" isn't that great of a movie, but Demi Moore's return is earth shaking. The first moment Madison Lee (Moore) was shown on screen, admiration of articulate poetry is witnessed! Immaculate! They should've called Madison Lee, Demeiter, because she is the real goddess of agriculture. Technically it's corn and I made a corny joke, get it? Slow motion has never been better at the beach. What a genius of the director to do that! Who cares about the story, is there one? It's the SOS and this time it has a villain better-looking than the stars. Inevitable.
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