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14 reviews, 143 user ratings
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Charlie's Angels (2000) |
by LitzaMo
"How much fun was that???"

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Well, actually, quite a bit. From the thrilling opening sequence (and LL's cameo--how unexpectedly cool!) to Drew Barrymore's, Lucy Liu's, and Cameron Diaz' often hilarious work as the Angels... I'm not saying the movie changed my life or was anything brilliant, original, or breathtaking, but what an incredibly fun ride.I laughed a LOT through the course of Charlie's Angels. Little zingers like the TJ Hooker Movie playing in first class, the subsequent comment on "wow, they're making another movie remake of an old TV show...", Natalie's (Cameron Diaz) fury at her cell phone being smashed dead in the middle of a really important conversation, Dylan's (Drew Barrymore) moonwalk, and Liu's massage, Tim Curry's bit part.... wow, what fun.
The premise of Charlie's Angels is pretty simple. Three beautiful, intelligent, apparently supercharged women have been recruited by Charlie, a never-seen multimillionaire that runs a detective agency in L.A. (Note: Voiced by the dude from the series! rock!) These three get a great case: some voice-DNA technology has been kidnapped along with the Bill Gates-lookalike that invented it. Job #1: find the man. There's a tape of the kidnapping, and Natalie's first instinct is "It's that chick!" (I'm really notoriously bad with names. Bear with me.) Of course, the chick walks in the room and is the one that hired the girls in the first place. Long story short: they find the kidnapped Gates-clone and discover other layers to their mission. All interspersed with a creepy thin guy that likes to sensuously smell hanks of hair yanked out of the Angels' heads through various fights, Tom Green as "the Chad," and the Angels' incredible...I mean cream-your-shorts-hot cars. I can't wait to see this with my buddy, who's obsessed with classic Mustangs, because I think with the combination of beautiful women, decent action sequences, and Cameron Diaz in a Ferrari, he's going to have a hard-on within moments. Seriously.
Downsides...well, it's not terribly plausible. Oh-fricking-well. The action sequences are admirably cartoonish and, well I don't want to say they're overdone, but at first the only thing running through my head was "That can't be real!" Then I figured out that it wasn't really supposed to look real and after that it was thoroughly enjoyable. (Of course, if the directors did actually want believeable action, oops. Sorry.)So yeah, I really liked it, spent half the movie wowing the action and the other half drooling over cars and wondering how the Angels' chests stayed covered in those jumpsuits, and I'm going to see it again. It's great but don't expect plausible action or even a coherent plot. It's just a damn good time.
link directly to this review at https://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/review.php?movie=1819&reviewer=222 originally posted: 11/04/00 15:32:22
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USA 03-Nov-2000 (PG-13)
UK N/A
Australia 23-Nov-2000 (M)
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