Happily Charlie’s Angels is a surprisingly successful TV-into-movie update of the seminal 1970s jiggle show,
Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore (who also produced) and Lucy Liu star 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, Charlie’s Angels is played for laughs with plenty of ribbing references to the old TV show as well as modern caper films like Mission : Impossible,
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 Matrix-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 Coyote Ugly, Angels 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, Charlie’s Angels is a delight,
—Doug Thomas, Amazon,
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- Actor:Cameron Diaz
- Actor:Drew Barrymore
- Actor:Lucy Liu
- Actor:Bill Murray
- Actor:Sam Rockwell
- AudienceRating:Suitable for 15 years and over
- Binding:DVD
- Creator:Cameron Diaz
- Creator:Drew Barrymore
- Creator:Aaron Spelling
- Creator:Amanda Goldberg
- Creator:Ben Roberts
- Creator:Ed Solomon
- Creator:Ivan Goff
- Creator:John August
- Creator:Ryan Rowe
- Director:McG
- EAN:5035822907768
- EANList:
- Format:PAL
- Label:Sony Pictures
- Languages:
- ListPrice:
- Manufacturer:Sony Pictures
- NumberOfDiscs:1
- NumberOfItems:1
- PackageDimensions:
- ProductGroup:DVD
- ProductTypeName:ABIS_DVD
- Publisher:Sony Pictures
- RegionCode:2
- ReleaseDate:2002-10-14
- RunningTime:98
- SKU:EDGE_B00006JNBU_FR
- Studio:Sony Pictures
- Title:Charlie’s Angels — Superbit [DVD] [2000]