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Charlie's Angels

Columbia Pictures

Tall Trees Productions

Flower Films

Leonard Goldberg Productions

United States of America

English

Deutsch

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广州话 / 廣州話

Cameron Diaz

Drew Barrymore

Lucy Liu

Bill Murray

Sam Rockwell

Tim Curry

Kelly Lynch

Crispin Glover

John Forsythe

Matt LeBlanc

LL Cool J

Tom Green

Luke Wilson

Sean Whalen

Alex Trebek

Raliegh Wilson

Mark Ryan

Bobby Ore

Guy Oseary

Joe Duer

Matthew Frauman

Reggie Hayes

Melissa McCarthy

Bob Stephenson

Ned Bellamy

Raymond Patterson

Björn Flor

Gaven E. Lucas

Michael Barryte

Andrew Wilson

Branden Williams

Michiko Nishiwaki

Frank Marocco

Diesel Pfingsten

Jim Calloway

Kevin Grevioux

Michael Papajohn

Jim Palmer

Shawn Woods

Kenny Endoso

Tom Garner

Isaac C. Singleton, Jr.

Paul Eliopoulos

Tim Gilbert

Al Goto

Steven Ito

Felipe Savahge

Mike Smith

Jerry Trimble

Kevin Alexander Stea

Ivana Bozilovic

Ariane Von Kamp

Karen McDougal

Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst

Yuen Cheung-Yan

Nanci Anderson

Leonard Goldberg

Nancy Juvonen

Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr.

Betty Thomas

Jenno Topping

Peter Teschner

Wayne Wahrman

Russell Carpenter

Justine Arteta

J. Michael Riva

David F. Klassen

Richard F. Mays

Lauri Gaffin

Joseph G. Aulisi

Rob Bottin

Gary Archer

Christina Fong

Garrett Warren

Vic Armstrong

Mark Cotone

Andy Armstrong

Joey Box

John Casino

Ted Barba

Clayton J. Barber

Mitchell Dean

Leon Delaney

Tiger Chen Hu

Doc Duhame

Kofi Elam

Tanner Gill

Jesse V. Johnson

Mark Knutson

Clint Lilley

Matt McBride

Gary Robert

Rick Seaman

Scotty Richards

Lesley Aletter

Mark Stefanich

John Branagan

Richard Burden

Roberta Brown

Jake Brake

Mark De Alessandro

Courtney Farnsworth

Walter Robles

Shawn Kautz

Tim Rigby

Nils Allen Stewart

Marguerite Pomerhn Derricks

Shauna Duggins

Alyssa Fong

Ed Solomon

John August

Ryan Rowe

Ivan Goff

Ben Roberts

Eileen Weisinger

Nancy Thurston

Lisa Hoyle

Dana Hee

Leigh Hennessy

Tanya Garcia-O'Brien

Donna Evans

Cheryl Wheeler Duncan

Laurie Creach

Marla Casey

Jennifer Caputo

Jennifer Badger

Laura Albert

Darren Michaels

Gary C. Bourgeois

Greg Orloff

Jayne-Ann Tenggren

Michael J. Benavente

Willie D. Burton

Dean Beville

Ed Callahan

Steven Ticknor

Daryl B. Kell

Michael T. Ryan

John Houlihan

Cheryl Beasley Blackwell

Kim Davis-Wagner

Monica Staggs

Lisa Dempsey

Annie Ellis

Dana Dru Evenson

Susan Dawes

Jeena M. Phelps

Michael St. Hilaire

Susan Dudeck

Mark R. Jackson

Keith Woulard

The Movie Diorama

Charlie’s Angels is a heavenly paradise for inexcusably camp charades. Adapting classic television series into a feature film was becoming a common trend in the early part of this century. But maintaining the aesthetic appeal of its source material is often blurred with the requirement of targeting mass mainstream audiences. Would viewers of the original Charlie’s Angels watch a film continuation? Most likely not. So the legendary (and I use that adjective lightly...) McG decided to go full Hollywood, embracing action spy thrillers that came before, and produced one of the campiest guilty pleasures of all time. 

Can I describe the plot? Absolutely not. It’s thinner that Diaz’ lip fillers and needless botox. Three “Angels” who privately work for a millionaire are assigned a task in investigating technology giant Red Star. Stuff happens, a predictable plot twist unravels and the booming soundtrack of The Prodigy and Fat Boy Slim illuminate my ears. 

Let me start by saying I love Charlie’s Angels. I love it! It’s a film I hold very close to my heart, and a crucial element to my childhood. Probably a reasoning for my raging homosexuality, let’s be honest. I mean Barrymore, Diaz and Liu kicking a “creepy thin man” repeatedly wearing tight leather costumes in ‘Matrix’-stylised slow motion whilst working together as a cohesive unit of female empowerment!? Just lay me to rest, now! Give me a slice of that angel cake and let me never lose that heavenly flavour. 

Yet, the amateur critic inside me just cannot classify this film as “good”. Why? Well, because it’s not. And it’s that ever-growing conflict between biased favouritism and legitimate critiquing that has me torn inside. Firstly, the plot is a mess. To the point where the story is a secondary product to the action set pieces and humorous dance sequences. When talented actors, such as Rockwell, are crucial aspects to this afterthought, it unfortunately wastes their efforts. The frantic editing prevents a natural flow of events, including the extravagant action, that anchors these angels. They are unable to spread their wings and fly.

A dire shame considering the undeniable chemistry between the lead actresses, each harnessing a unique personality that allows their characters to connect as a team. Diaz is the ditzy dance queen, shaking her tush on Soul Train. Barrymore is the rebellious punk, sticking her middle finger up to everyone. Liu is the intellectual well-mannered lady, riding horses and piloting space rockets. They each add enough humour to come together seamlessly. Essentially, I live for them. The dialogue is cheesy and contagious, if ridiculously vacuous in subject matter. And the constant use of the same songs, namely “Heaven” and “Smack My B**** Up!”, lacked variety. Despite my internal love for The Prodigy and Fat Boy Slim. 

As far as guilty pleasures go, Charlie’s Angels is up there for me. It’s poorly directed and woefully written, but I cannot deny my adoration for this campy beast. Unfortunately it doesn’t surpass the ultimate guilty pleasure ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider’, even after all these years...

Andre Gonzales

Not the greatest fighters in this besides Lucy Liu. I really only liked the movie cause it was funny, and of course their sexy. That's pretty much it.

CinemaSerf

"Sabrina" (Kate Duncan) was always my favourite when I was growing up, so I was really disappointed that they didn't recast her character from amongst these three ladies who had a go at resurrecting the bad-ass antics at the "Townsend Detective Agency". At least "Charlie" (John Forsythe) added a bit of continuity, but otherwise this really is a pale imitation of the television series. "Natalie" (Cameron Diaz), "Dylan" (Drew Barrymore) and "Alex" (Lucy Liu) pick up the mantle and guided by "Bosley" (Bill Murray) find themselves embroiled in the world of corporate espionage and high-tech larceny. It's the geeky "Eric" (Sam Rothwell) who has asked them to investigate the nefarious activities of his rival "Roger" (Tim Curry) after his unique voice recognition software has been pinched. It's only after they make some progress that they return to a wrecked house and realise that this is perhaps a cunning distraction from the criminal's real objective: "Charlie" himself! Of course, they want to rally round him but how? They couldn't pick him out of an ID parade. As things hot up, the ladies have to use all of their wits, guile and a fair degree of ninja skills to get to the bottom of the scheming before their boss becomes more chum than "Charlie". As a throw way adventure film this works fine. The writing is largely irrelevant and the focus is entirely on the gymnastic activities of three women who are quite clearly enjoying themselves and, of course, there's the always to be relied upon ham that is Tim Curry. Murray is wasted here, though, and Rockwell only really does enough as his character is all too predictably padded out. There are an array of familiar telly faces to chivvy it along and it's got spawn of a sequel written all over it. You'll probably never remember it, but if it serves to get you to fish out some of the 1970s television series then that might be it's only lasting legacy - they were much more fun.

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Drew Barrymore

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Tim Curry

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