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Summary: They're no Angels!
Review: This long-awaited DVD was only released in Australia on 23 May 2001, though I saw the film last year. It is a great, fun movie, not to be taken too seriously. The 3 girls work together beautifully and look stunning. The special effects are top notch. However, I was not surprised when viewing the bonus features to find out that 2 Chinese martial artists had "trained" the 3 girls (with the use of wires). The film showed a definite HK influence, very like The Matrix. Actually, Yuen Woo Ping (The Matrix stunt coordinator) and Yuen Cheng (CA stunt coordinator)both graduated from the same Chinese Opera School as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. All use the same techniques in martial arts and stuntwork. Also, if you are a Jackie fan like me, you should have noticed two "steals" from his films - the falling bell in the tower (Shanghai Noon) and the two race cars facing each other off and screaming into action using as a signal a bird taking flight from the road (Thunderbolt).Charlie's Angels DVD is a must buy/keep as it will be a movie you can take out to watch over and over again and keep enjoying. Highly recommended.
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Summary: See Chicken Run or Titan A.E. Instead
Review: I wasn't impressed with this video. Some of the fighting and special effects were neat (though not always believable), but the plot was unoriginal. The computer break-in scene reminds one very much of Mission Impossible (1). The storyline jumps and shifts too much for comfort, without being surprising -- as if someone up top couldn't settle on this version or that. And the girls run on sexy scenes -- sporting skimpy clothes and conveniently unzipped water suits -- instead of showing some real personality. The skin plus some questionable language makes "Charlie's Angels" unsuitable for family viewing. Too bad; the crime-fighting team, backed by an anonymous millionaire, wasn't that bad of an idea. And the way the girls obviously loved him, unseen, was cute too. The redhead's glimpse of Charlie, near the end, is poignant; you imagine she'll treasure that forever. Anyone interested in a remake?
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Summary: Charlie's Angels~VHS
Review: I loved this movie!!! It's my favorite movie of all time!! The special effects and stunts are so kick-butt cool! I love Drew Barrymore, so I knew, even before I saw the movie, I'd love it. If you like Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, Bill Murray, totally hot action, girl power, and/or lots of laughs, this is the movie for you!! Buy it, and you can thank me later!!
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Summary: not good
Review: It reminded me of a mix between MI2 and Austin Powers! I am so glad I didnt spend 7.00 to see this at the theatre!!
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Summary: u go girls!
Review: this movie perfectly combines comedy with action and suspense/mystery. the casting is great, and the soundtrack's even better!
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Summary: Good entertainment.
Review: This takeup of the 1970s TV show is absolutely delightful, with comedy and high-paced action. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu are wonderfully cast as the three Angels, three elite women who rescue high-tech programmer (Sam Rockwell) from a egomaniac (Tim Curry). Also, Bosley is played delightfully by Bill Murray, who makes most of the comic relief. Good action sequences, lots of comic relief make this high-paced feminine movie enjoyable. Includes cameos by Luke Wilson (who plays Diaz's boyfriend and also co-starred with Barrymore in "Home Fries") and Tom Green as Barrymore's beau in the movie (his cameo is better than his recent gross-out humor roles in "Road Trip" and especially "Freddy Got Fingered" which Barrymore makes a cameo in this movie also). Wonderful, but slightly campy and air-headed version of the TV show. Rated PG-13, for violence, innueudo, and for some nudity.
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Summary: Great Fun
Review: There's really not too much to say about this movie. It's extremely funny and enjoyable to both men and women. I liked how the women got to kick butt this time instead of the men. Very 'Girl Power' oriented movie. This movie had a cool plot, good effects, great fight sequences, good music, humor, and great acting by Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore, and Bill Murray. This DVD also had tons of great extras. Three cheers for 'Charlie's Angels'!!
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Summary: It's retro-camp heaven
Review: The vast majority of movies adapted from TV shows work so hard to remind us what was significant about the original program, they invariably end up as expensive, pointless recreations of something that was probably trivial to begin with. Probably the best move the makers of "Charlie's Angels" made was to pick up on what made the series work -- namely, the idea that three women could be tough enough to fight crime while still looking astonishingly lovely -- and to recast that idea in a new format. If the big-screen "Charlie's Angels" has a pronounced 1970s feel to it, it's because it seems one of the James Bond films of that era, such as "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker," in which Bond faced off against seemingly unstoppable villains while making a lot of smirky double-entendres. As in those Bond extravaganzas, the action in "Angels" is practically non-stop and the jokes are...It's perhaps worth mentioning...that the script was reportedly rewritten dozens of times by scores of...screenwriters. When it's not doling out those sorry attempts at humor, the movie is working up impressive parodies of Jackie Chan's celebrated stunts by putting the Angels through rigorous martial arts matches, most of which incorporate a bit of "Matrix"-style special effects work to allow an Angel to whirl through the air while kicking the living daylights out of a gang of thugs. In the updated "Angels," hand-to-hand combat is in and guns are out. Not once in the film does one of the women stop an adversary by whipping out a revolver and crying "Freeze!", a moment that seemed to occur at least once or twice in each "Charlie's Angels" episode. That's not the only major revision. Instead of trying to squeeze Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu into the roles Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith made their own, "Angels" cleverly designs characters that allow the actresses to simultaneously cash in on and tweak their images. Dylan (Barrymore), toughened up by a childhood spent on the streets, parties hard and knows precisely how to exploit her...appeal to get what she wants; Alex, as played by Liu, looks delicate and pliant, but hides a lot of fury and brainpower behind her exotic facade; Diaz's delightfully eccentric Natalie is one of the few women on the planet who's been a "Jeopardy!" champion and a world-class auto racer, although what she really wants to do is rule the disco. The trio works for the mysterious Charles Townsend (voiced, as in the series, by John Forsythe) under the direction of the slightly bumbling John Bosley (Bill Murray). As "Angels" contrives different ways to get our heroines into a wide array of provocative costumes -- one minute they're outfitted in kimonos and working at an upscale massage parlor called Madame Wong's House of Blossoms, the next they're yodeling Oktoberfest frauleins -- the movie becomes a deliriously silly fashion spread, in which even Bosley gets a few makeovers. Diaz, Barrymore and Liu obviously relish each costume change and, unsurprisingly, they look sensational regardless of what they're wearing -- or not wearing, as the case may be. There's also a pleasant feeling of camaraderie between them, one crucial aspect of the TV series the movie is careful to preserve. Director McG (Joseph McGinty Mitchell), a graduate of the MTV school, dresses the picture up in high style, with eye-scorching colors and a phenomenal soundtrack that strings together Pizzicato Five, Apollo 440, the Vapors, Aerosmith and a broad sampling of vintage hits with "Angel" in the title, including Tavares' "Heaven Must be Missing an Angel," Alan O'Day's "Undercover Angel" and Juice Newton's "Angel of the Morning." Only Tobey Beau's "My Angel Baby" and Hot's "The Angel in Your Arms This Morning's Gonna Be The Devil in Someone Else's Arms Tonight" are conspicuously absent...
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Summary: Fun, Fun, Fun!
Review: Good fun! THe cast is entertaining and the action is great. The plot is a little predictable but this movie basically has a little of everything else. I suppose if the movie was a little more realistic I would have given it five stars. But if you are into a little fantasy this movie is perfect for you. Either way this is an entertaining flick with charecters that are charming and funny. If you are looking for a little sex appeal this movie has it too! -but its still a good family film (sorta).
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Summary: The best movie!!!
Review: Charlies Angels was suh a good movie that I could watch it a million times and want to watch it another few million!! It you like girly girl movies then this is the one for you!!!!
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