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Angels they may be, but Chad steals the show.

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4 Nov 13th, 2001 

20 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful

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Action, Comedy, Tom Green and three babes

Disadvantages:
That damn Destiny's Child song

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Tum-tee-tum. Vince's back and twiddling his thumbs...

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Let's get one thing straight at the start: this film is not trying to be the original series, it is simply a big spoof of itself. I didn't get this the first time i saw it so, as a result, I didn't like it. If you watch it as a pointless action comedy that's just being entertainment, then it's an enjoyable film.
Right from the start of the film, when LL Cool J hurls himself and a diamond smuggler out of the door of a passenger plane, you know that this film is all about spectacular action scenes. And as they land in a boat and LL Cool J strips off a bodysuit to reveal Drew Barrymore underneath, you realise that - for better or for worse - this film is going to be completely ridiculous. I can't remember the character's names, because they don't matter. It's all about three attractive women running around kicking ass for a living on the orders of some old guy they never meet. What I do remember, however, is Bill Murray's classic performance as the middleman. He plays the role perfectly, right down to the point where he has to act like an Austin Powers substitute throughout a party.
Cameron Diaz plays the innocent but very sexy character well, Lucy Liu plays the intelligent, thoughtful character well and Drew Barrymore plays the fun-loving character with a bad girl past impressively, as you'd expect given her own background. One man, though, steals the whole film completely. His charcter only crops up in the story a couple of times, for short periods of time, but they're the best scenes in the film. Tom Green (Drew Barrymore's now real-life husband) stars as Chad; the marginally unstable, insecure, likeable loser blatantly in love with Barrymore's character [watch for the scene in which he climbs down the boat's exhaust pipe uttering the immortal words, "The Chad is great, The Chad Is Great, The Chad Is... Stuck!"].

Another terrific scene is the one where the girls are fighting the strange pale man in the bowler hat in an alley, with 'The Prodigy"'s 'Smack my Bitch up' playing fiercely in the background, keeping the fight rolling along.

If you can get hold of this film, it's good for a watch or two, for entertainment value, but not a nineties classic like, for example, Romeo + Juliet.

If you get the DVD then, once again, you get lots of added goodies; the trailers, cut scenes, bloopers and the like. Watch it, buy it, but don't expect people to be impressed when you bring it out...

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smallwren 24.12.2004 11:07

CHAD.. best bit of the film!! Reading your review and got as far as 'the chad is stuck' and burst out laughing from the memory!! Great film but not to be taken too seriously xxx jen

gemmawild 29.10.2003 18:29

I hated this film when my b/f got me to watch it. Turned it off half way through. Gem x

peppersinclaire 14.12.2001 14:36

Great op! Ms Diaz has just signed on for Charlies Angels II... the question is - "was it the Chad?" P$

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