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Summary: Just Say Flop
Review: Utter surprise is what I felt when I viewed this film. The storyline is best described as comicstrip meets slap stick. If you do not like slap stick comedy, this is not the movie for you. The photography is beautiful, the stunts are entertaining but everything else is a bust.
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Summary: God Save Us
Review: Welcome to Mission: T & A. Scantily clad women stand up for the turn of the centuries kind of feminism. Women who can stand up for their individuality as long they still have time to hook a man. Charlie's Angels is representative of everything that's wrong with current day movie making. The need for flash rather then substance and ultimately the movie goes down like a bucket of popcorn its enjoyable while your eating it, even though you know it's probably not good for you. Billy Murray makes an appearance mostly trying to sheild his embarrassment that after Rushmore this was the best script he could find. Drew Barrymore, Lucy Lui, and Cameron Diaz show off their bods and not much else as they try to prove you don't need to have a good plot or even for it to make sense, for hijinks to ensue. If they had bothered to do a little critical thinking they might have realized that opening the airplane hatch would only save all those innocent people from a mad bomber long enough for them to crash and die in the ocean. Anyone who actually likes this movie I only have this to say to you, "you exactly what's wrong with this country and I despise. Go to a deserted island with your Pepsi One and Brittney Spears and leave the rest of us in peace. P.S. Burn in hell."
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Summary: An infectious mess
Review: Charlie's Angels is something rare: a mess of a movie that is somehow infectious, and infectious not despite the mess, but because of it. The development of MTV style directing has brought us such garbage as Armageddon and The Cell, so it is very tempting for critics to despair over the growth of this moviemaking approach. And now it has brought us to Charlie's Angels -- Director McG has not learned how to finish off a sequence; rather he just ends it as he quick cuts to the next one. It is tempting to say the auteur of the film is star-producer Drew Barrymore; Charlie's Angels has a sweet-natured, girly energy that corresponds exactly to her sunflower personality. The other crime-fighting Angels are Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, both playing in the same loose key; compared to all this knockabout girl power flying around, Bill Murray (as Charlie's conduit Bosley) seems positively reserved. Bill Murray, for heaven's sake. I won't trouble you with matters of plot, since this doesn't seem to have troubled anyone else involved with the production. Nor should it have: the dumb story is an excuse for bursts of dancing and kung fu fighting, both of which are hilariously rendered. Cameron Diaz especially achieves the kind of giddy heights only accessible to a performer willing to make a complete fool of herself. One illogical thing happens after another. Why does Diaz take off in a race car after villainous henchman Crispin Glover? Because the movie needed a car chase. How does he survive the ensuing plunge off a high bridge? Because he's Crispin Glover.....BTW, it was nice to see him again. In the end, Charlie's Angels feels remarkably like the TV show: fabulous hair, nifty outfits, cool stunts, problems neatly solved. The DVD: It almost goes without saying that the film will be presented in its original aspect ratio, in this case 2.35:1 and be given an anamorphic transfer. Sure enough, both statements are true and it is beautiful work. On the sound end, things are also quite good. The mix is Dolby Digital 5.1, and it certainly rocks its way around the house. Next up are several featurettes that each run in length anywhere from five to seven minutes. First up is "Getting G'd Up" and it is a piece telling the boundless energy Director McG brought to the project. Then we have "The Master and the Angels." This deals in limited fashion with fighting instructor Cheung-Yan Yuen and what put the stars of the movie through to get them in fighting shape for filming. Then there are two featurettes dealing with production and costume design titles respectively "Welcome to Angel World" and "Angelic Attire." Technical aspects of the movie are discussed in two featurettes, "Angelic Effects" and "Wired Angels." The disc also includes some deleted scenes with introductions and some commentary by Director McG and as is usually the case it was easy to see why they were removed. The only thing that could have made this a better package would have been nude photos of the stars but for that I always have the Internet.
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Summary: best variety movie in years!!
Review: this movie was a mixture of action, comedy, and many other things. all the angels were awsome, but my favorite was sam rockwell.best entertainment value movie in a very long time . check it out.i cant say enough about this movie,exept i wish i was an angel.i did in the seventies, and i do now.
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Summary: Much better than I thought!
Review: I can't believe I'm saying this. My wife wanted to rent this movie and I thought Oh brother! We also rented Meet the parents. I'm telling you this movie is much more enjoyable and funnier than meet the parents. Lots of cool Karate style action, like Matrix, and a lot of laughs coming from Bill Murray. The story is pretty stupid, but the characters make up for it. Diaz is a dumb blond. Lu is the smart one of the bunch. Barrymore, is O.K. someone else should have played this part. The worst thing about this movie is that Barrymore's Husband, boyfriend,- Tom Green has a couple of scenes and they are really bad! It was funny to see Charlie, just like the TV show I remember, is trying to hide his Identity. Good not a great movie.
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Summary: Doesn't run on/Läuft nicht auf - Scott codefree Player
Review: Diese DVD läuft nicht auf dem codefree DVD Player von Scott, wegen RCE (Region Code Enhancement), musste ich leider selber feststellen. This DVD does not run on the codefree DVD Player by Scott because of RCE (Region Code Enhancement). Unfortunately I had to experience this by myself.
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Summary: Spunky, but unrealistic
Review: Although three hot chicks are in three hot uniforms pretending to be superheros, something about Charlie's Angels just doesn't click. Maybe its the pale villian, who licks hair (YUCK!!!!), or the plot itself. Diaz, Liu, and Barrymore are the brought back trio from the 70's know as Charlie's Angels. Women crime fighters, with very strange methods. The Angels are given an ordinary case, but it all goes haywire, when their communicator between them and Charlie(Murray)is kidnapped. Charlie's Angels is a good one time see, but its comedy is exhausted after the first view.Special appearances from Tom Green (Barrymore's Boyfriend) and Bill Murray liven the movie up a bit.
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Summary: Heavenly
Review: I never cared for the original series way back in the 70s. It had beautiful women, such as Farrah Fawcett, Jacqueline Smith and Tanya Roberts, but also had some nasty anti-male undercurrents. This 2000 rendition, instead of being anti-male, is pro-fun. It takes all of 2 minutes into this movie to figure out that it doesn't take itself too seriously. In fact, it is a borderline spoof of the 70s series, even making fun of itself at times. There are also some scenes which make fun of stuff from the 70s, such as Disco and Soul Train. This movie is absurd, but it's a fun kind of absurd. It does not try to convince otherwise. Following in the footsteps of "Xena: Warrior Princess," this film is action packed, sexy and highly entertaining. On the casting side, Drew Barrymore is a bit of a reach, but Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu are marvelous. This is a great flick for those who liked the 70s TV show, and probably an even more enjoyable movie for those who didn't.
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Summary: Bad. Bad. Bad.
Review: I don't even know where to begin with this movie. It was a badly made movie all around. There were no redeeming qualities anywhere in the movie and it makes me want to apologize to the new viewers who didn't grow up with the TV series. Okay, I'm sorry. really, really, sorry. There I said it. These were not the Angels I grew up with, in character, theme, style, class or charm. The plot line, if you can call it that, ughh, never mind. Two thumbs down. Minus the star rating. Sad. Sad. Sad. Bad. Bad. Bad. My suggestion to make it just barely decent (spoof at worst) would have been to (what maybe I had expected) would be some cameo appearances by the original cast (like Lost in Space). I would have enjoyed it for that sake alone. Maybe had Farrah took over Bosely's place and made it perfectly clear that these were not the original Angel's. I'm sorry again, it could have been a great movie since it was already based on a cult TV series and I was expecting to fall in love all over again, but alas it just turned into a plain ole' booty call. Oh by the way, the soundtrack was good only in that it had great blasts from the past songs, and not because of anything remotely connected to the movie. Not to mention I would have enjoyed listening to the TV theme song again which it didn't have. Didn't want for that to slip by either. I could have made this soundtrack myself by merely slapping my favorite songs on CD recorder.
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Summary: "King Kong palm..."
Review: OOOOO!!! I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! I just saw it last week for the first time, and I have already seen it 8 times since!! I love it! Dylan (Drew Barrymoore) is my favorite angel, as you can see from the little title above (one of her lines)!! Natalie (Cameron Diaz) and Alex (Lucy Lui) are AWESOME though!! If you want action, get this! If you want comedy, get this! It's great, and Tom Green has a little part (with Drew, his new wife)!!!
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