Charlie's Angels (DVD)

...their heads up in public. Charlie's Angels is one such film - evidence that it doesn't matter how much money you throw at a film, it can still be shite. Charlie is an elusive millionaire who, for reasons unknown, hires an elite force of female undercover agents who undertake top secret assignments for paying clients. In this tale, the Angels have been hired to help locate and rescue a millionaire computer engineer who has apparently been kidnapped. ...
...about the film is that Charlie's Angels is completely self-contradictory in its aims of promoting girl power. Rather than showing us a skilful, mature, slick band of female agents we are instead subjected to a trio of hormonal immature girlies, who use their breasts and pencil like figures at every opportunity to get their own way. The Angels have absolutely no presence whatsoever - they don't stand out from any other group of teenage females that ...

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...Drew Barrymore as the infamous Charlie's Angels. The opening scene is amazing and we get a sense of what to expect from the rest of the film. The emphasis is on definately more on style and action and not on the storyline. The girls work for Charlie's detective agency and the films story is about their attempts to find a kidnap victim. John Forsythe plays the never seen before Charlie, who we only get to see at the end. The action in the film is ...
...style fighting.The 'baddies' include the scary looking man who fights against the angels. The plot isn't the reason for watching the film. There are tiny little twists in the plot, but it is simple enough for a 8 year old to understand. Formula 1 cars, boats and helicopters make scatter the film, giving the film a more action packed look. The Nokia 8210 is advertised a bit clumsily and doesn't gel with the rest of the film. The girl flash their phones ...

chocoholic 03.08.2001 · Read full review
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It would appear that i am the only person who doesn't like this film. Sorry. I saw this at the Cinema when it was released, I knew what to expect from it, Hard Girl action flick that really doesn’t take itself too seriously with a top cast and great special effects. This is exactly what I got, but to be honest I didn’t think it was all that. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu play the three Angels, helped along the way by Bosley ...
...show but I knew what it was about. These three women basically go around in a James Bond kind of way, beating people up and generally saving the day, and that is what we get in the movie, albeit on a much larger scale. As already stated the special effects are top notch. The fighting scenes are superb. Very Matrix they are too but with the added bonus of having the three gorgeous cast members being the ones flying all over the gaff in slo-mo. Sexy ...

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Wow, what can I say? This had everything to get your blood pumping. Fast flowing, frantic, explosive, all out action. One really had to wonder how the re-vamp of the 70's classic would fair in the modern world. The answer was a resounding, 'Very Well'. What really made this film a must see really had to be the cast of Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, all accompanied by resident funny men Bill Murray and MTV crazy man Tom Green. One could ...
...every time they were on set together. However, despite having her boyfriend on stage with her, there certainly was no spark taken out of Drew Barrymore's performance. One would have forgiven her for declining to par-take in some slightly raunchy scenes. However, thankfully, she did not and the male audience really benefited. Perhaps for me the most stunning site was a cross between Ms Barrymore tumbling down the side of a hill completely naked and ...

Spudrik 06.03.2001 · Read full review
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Charlie's Angels is THE worst film that I have ever seen. I am so sad that the only reason I did not walk out halfway through is that I wanted to review it on here! If this is Girl Power they can keep it. The film seemed to be a jumbled mess with no sense of direction, so maybe McG should stick to the GAP adverts. Trying to bring the 70's back to life with a mix of the year 2000 just does not work. Cameron Diaz is the smiling Natalie, dim witted ...
...than is decent, but then it takes the attention away from the dire acting. Drew Barrymore is Dylan, she lost her personality somewhere in all of the script rewrites. She gets lots of cleavage shots too, especially as her clothes are always buttoned or zipped up to reveal optimum cleavage. Lucy Liu is Alex who can flick her hair better than any other woman on the planet. The film started quite promisingly with LL Cool J playing what looked like an ...

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What can i say! If you like the seventies, and you liked the original angels (Farah Fawcett etc), you're gonna love this. The all new "Charlie's Angels", is great by comparison and boasts a full modern hollywood cast of stars. The whole film hinges around three girls, Natalie (Cameron Diaz), Dylan (Drew Barrymore), and Alex (Lucy Liu) along with the infamous Bill Murray in the guise of Bosley, all of whom play their parts very well. Not only is ...
...As with the angels of old, the story begins in the "Once upon a time" style revealing who and what the girls were, and on to the new life they now have as an elite team of private investigators headed up by the ever invisible Charlie. Once that's out of the way the story begins with the trio being called in to investigate the theft of some special voice recognition software and the kidnapping of it's creator. Unfortunately, this type of story is ...

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To be honest I was not quite sure what to make of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ the first time I saw it, but then a friend told me that the director, enigmatically referred to as “McG”, had previously been responsible for only music videos. Now that explains a lot. Charlie’s Angels is essentially a very flippant, reasonably enjoyable and relatively disposable piece of cinema, an action flick content to poke fun at its own ...
...it risks jumping the genre barrier of the action movie and becoming a full-on comedy piece. It is also very aware of its own flaws and the weight of audience expectations, and sends those up with just as much irreverence as it does the rest of the movie-mythos in its more outwardly aimed puns. Based, of course, on the popular Seventies show of the same name, Charlie’s Angels essentially concerns a trio of “beautiful” and “brilliant” ...

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You may be familiar with Charlie's Angels from their TV series from the 70's - big hair, big action and even bigger... missions. Following on from big screen adaptations like The Avengers and Mission: Impossible before it, Charlie's Angels is a brand new, super-stylish silver screen update with plenty of explosions, stylish locations and absurd plotlines. And it is absolutely great. The three girls in the Charlie's Angels movie are Cameron Diaz, ...
...the most refreshing thing about Charlie's Angels is the way the three girls behave - there is no Girl Power rubbish spouted in this film, the girls are just Independent women who do what they want to do and just happen to do it with lots of high kick and Matrix-style fight sequences. Excellent supporting roles from Tim Curry and Crispin Glover as the creepy Thin Man (you may remember him as George McFly from Back To The Future) give the cast depth ...

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Charlies Angels was a film that split audiences. Some loved it, some hated it and some were indifferent. I always went into seeing it of the opinion that it wasn't going to be high brow entertainment with a solid plot. No what I wanted was good looking girls kicking ass and Bill Murray being deadpan as ever. I got both and naturally I was happy. The angels (Barrymore, Liu and Diaz) are brought in on a kidnapping case where a young software tycoon ...
...his software that could bring an end to privacy. Of course all is not what it seems and soon the angels are drawn into a battle of tight outfits, perfect hair and kung fu action. The plot is silly but the goofy performances make up for it with everyone looknig like they're having a good time. Barrymore is here usual endearing self and I'm sure anything that has Diaz prancing about in spiderman pants should be worthy on anyone's time. The dvd itself ...

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The time has come, my friends, to call a halt to the endless retread of Sixties and Seventies pulp TV series, adapting and adopting them for the gratification of a 90’s cinema audience (well, we never did suss out what the 2000’s were, did we? The Noughties, the Zeroes, doesn’t sound quite right does it? Well, I’ll stick to the Nineties and accept the flaw until we come up with the finished article. Now, what exactly was I talking about… Oh yes…) ...
...of the genre which includes Mission Impossible, The Avengers and several more, then the source has been milked rather more thoroughly than can possibly be good for it. Camp, kitsch, play it for laughs, action adventure with a touch of dash may have been quite the done thing way back when, but I struggle to recall any examples of revamped originals which have been a patch on the original, and that’s not just because we were so much more naïve and ...

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Admittedly I was a little sceptical about this film, I never really go for films that are hyped to death. But as my friend had brought Charlie’s Angels on DVD round, I thought I might as well watch it. Now I’m from the generation that doesn’t actually remember the original, but I had heard lots about it. I knew it was a film about 3 kick-ass girls kicking ass. Anyway I watched the DVD on sat night and even as a sceptic I thought ...
...but the film isn’t intended to be taken seriously. But the stunts and the costumes are fantastic. It’s a seriously funny film. It has all the right ingredients for a cheesy film, the OTT millionaire, the Girls in skimpy clothes, cool toys, and a Baddy intent on revenge. The makes have done a good job of getting the film to have a laugh at its self without going too much down the spoof track (i.e. Naked Gun etc.) There’s no point ...

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Thank God for Skittles. Picture this: Bunch of surprisingly sober 14 year olds, both sexes, who are participating in a 'stay up all night' style party. The first time they had done a party like this, it had rocked - because it was hosted by yours truly. This one was going fairly well up until about 10, when it was too dark to play Twister outside anymore, and all 14 of us straggled into the house to watch the movies that had been obtained for the ...
...a Funeral was another…and Charlies Angels was the last. A Indian pirate copy of The Matrix was hovering around as well. No, I don't mean that Neo and Trinity were replaced with Indian Pirates - it was a copy of The Matrix taped from Indian television. Although pirates running up walls would admittedly rock. So, anyway, being the clever people we are, we chose Charlies Angels to watch first. Its sheer awfulness killed the party. I think I might ...

Mouldy_Cheese 18.04.2002 · Read full review
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...Charlie's Angels: The Movie (1999). Rated PG-13 for action violence, innuendo and some sensuality/nudity. UK Rating 15. Runtime: 98 min. in the UK this is available on DVD (via Amazon.co.uk for only £7.99), but the video and soundtrack are only available in the US. ~~~~~ ...

TheChocolateLady 22.01.2001 (16.06.2003) · Read full review
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This film totally rocks! Whether you're a bloke watching it and pretending not to eye the women up (my husband does this!) or a woman watching and thinking, wow, i wish i could bend like this, there is definitely something for everyone! RATING: This film is rated a 15, due to the fight scenes in it. There is hardly any swearing in it, and no sex scenes, apart from a bit of kissing here and there! STARRING: It stars Cameron Diaz (the Mask) as Natalie, ...
...(Ally McBeal) as Alex, these are the angels. Bill Murray (Groundhog Day) is brilliant as Bosley, and the original Charlie (John Forsythe) does the voice in this one! The "baddies" are Sam Rockwell (Green Mile), Kelly Lynch (Homegrown), Crispin Glover (Nurse Betty) and Tim Curry (Congo). THE PLOT: The storyline is a good one, the Angels start off with an assignment to rescue someone who's been kidnapped, and recover some stolen software. But the ...

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Charlie's Angel's falls into the fatal trap of failing to create a balance between its two main elements - that is to say 'action' and 'comedy'. Bascially it's not funny enough to be a really effective spoof (like a Naked Gun ) and so it ends up as just an embarrassing action movie, with weak jokes and a bit of totty to spice things up a little. Thank God for Cameron Diaz, as without her it really would not be worth the price of the film it's reeled ...
...make it credible, but in Charlie's Angel's it just doesn't work. At the risk of sounding a little over-critical, the whole plot is rubbish aswell. The villain is supposed to have a half-decent motive for whatever dasterdly plans he comes up with - either that or he's got to be mad - but this one is neither mad, nor does he have a real motive. The whole thing revolves around this super-rich computers entrepreneur that believes 'Charlie' (yes, the ...

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