Charlie's Angels [Region 2]

Buy This Item Charlie's Angels [Region 2]  Available from Amazon  Click 'BUY IT NOW' to get price.  on 11-29-2008     For every TV-into-movie success like <I>The Fugitive</I>, there are dozens of uninspired films like <I>The Mod Squad</I>. Happily--and surprisingly--this breezy update of the seminal '70s jiggle show falls into the first category, with Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore (who also produced), and Lucy Liu starring as the hair-tossing, fashion-setting, kung fu-fighting trio employed by the mysterious Charlie (voiced by the original Charlie, John Forsythe). When a high-tech programmer (Sam Rockwell) is kidnapped, the angels seek out the suspects, with the daffy Bosley (Bill Murray in a casting coup) in tow. A happy, cornball popcorn flick, <I>Charlie's Angels</I> is played for laughs with plenty of ribbing references to the old TV show as well as modern caper films like <I>Mission: Impossible</I>. McG, a music video director making his feature film debut (usually a death warrant for a movie's integrity), infuses the film with plenty of <I>Matrix</I>-style combat pyrotechnics, and the result is the first successful all-American Hong Kong-style action flick. Plenty of movies boast a New Age feminism that has their stars touting their sexuality while being their own women, but unlike something as obnoxious as <I>Coyote Ugly</I>, <I>Angels</I> succeeds with a positive spin on Girl Power for the new millennium (Diaz especially sizzles in her role of crack super agent/airhead blonde). From the send-up of the TV show's credit sequence to the outtakes over the end credits, <I>Charlie's Angels</I> is a delight. <I>--Doug Thomas</I> Reader Reviews The lack of credibility in the plot and the offensive story line brings into light just how stupid the original TV show was. Had that show been promoted initially as a comedy it would have put the issue to bed very early on in the piece. However, the undiscerning will actually take this incredulous drivel seriously and that fact is really a joke. I have done various forms of martial arts myself in mixed groups and I know from experience that the women cannot compete with the men in serious contests. Not that the women I trained with weren't competent. But there are certain psychological and physiological factors that make inter-gender contests inappropriate- and indecent. [Not that decency has ever been a consideration for the entertainment media.]

Charlie's Angels [Region 2] Available from Amazon Price: Click 'BUY IT NOW' to get price. Updated on 11-29-2008.

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