| Charlie's Angels | | Cast : | Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray | | Director : | McG | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 03, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | December 11, 2001 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | These "chicks" aren't doing much of anything! | Content
 | Ok let me start off by saying a comedy this is not so don't EVER bill it as one. I don't know what the fuss is all about. But if you like sexy (I guess to males they'd be sexy and gay girls which I'm not) girls doing nothing then ok but that's about it . Azumanga Daioh is about nothing and those girls do something you know. This is just a bunch of random action scences and they hardly kick butt. My point is it insults both female and male's intelligence. Any film that insults your intelligence is awful. I'm a bit scared to see D.E.B.S. now.... since that seems to follow the same forumula. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 20, 2005 | | Summary | A very good action and comedy film | Content
| Charlie's Angels in my opinion was a very good movie with good Acting, Directing, Special Effects, and Writing. This is a very funny film and also has a lot of action in it. Out of all the aspects there is a couple that stand out. They have a great opening and ending to a great film. Awesome fight/action sequences. They have an amazing cast and crew with a very good sense of humor. Their really isn't a negative aspect about this movie except there was a couple parts that had CGI in it but that was it.
Overall this is a great family film with a very good sense of humor. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 12, 2005 | | Summary | Charlie's Angels (2000) | Content
| In 1976, the hit television show, CHARLIE'S ANGELS had debuted. On that show, the angels were: JILL MONROE (played by Farrah Fawcett), KELLY GARRETT (played by Jaclyn Smith), & SABRINA DUNCAN (played by Kate Jackson). Their sidekick was JOHN BOSELY (played by David Doyle). The voice of Charlie was John Forsythe. A year later, Jill Monroe was replaced by her sister, KRIS MONROE (played by Cheryl Ladd). Later, Kelly Garrett was replaced by JULIE ROGERS (played by Tanya Roberts), and Sabrina Duncan was replaced by TIFFANY WELLES (played by Shelley Hack).
In the year 2000, director McG, had brought us the film, CHARLIE'S ANGELS, with three of today's gorgeous actresses to portray Charlie's third batch of angels. CHARLIE (again played by John Forsythe) has recruited three new angels. The angels are: NATALIE COOK (played by Cameron Diaz), DYLAN SAUNDERS (played by Drew Barrymore), and ALEX MUNDAY (played by Lucy Liu). These angels, are the third batch, after Jill, Kelly, Sabrina, Kris, Julie, & Tiffany. JOHN BOSELY (played by Bill Murray) is still their loveable sidekick.
The angels' next assignment is to find a young man named ERIC KNOX (played by Sam Rockwell). His assistant, VIVIAN WOOD (played by Kelly Lynch) is the one who made the discovery of his kidnapping. She believes ROGER CORWIN (played by Tim Curry), head of CORWIN COMPUTER COMPANIES is responsible. The angels and Bosely head over to Corwin's big party bash to rescue Knox and to capture his kidnapper, who is only known as CREEPY THIN MAN (played by Crispin Glover). There, Dylan and Alex pose as Bosely's dates, where Natalie poses as a waitress, where she meets PETE KOMISKY (played by Luke Wilson). They find Thin Man and chase him down an alley, fight him, but he runs off, where the angels find Eric Knox and rescue him.
Knox was kidnapped so Corwin could get his hands on Knox's computer software that has something to do with cell phones. The angels have to get into the Corwin building and retrieve it, but they need the authorization codes to get in. Two operators have this. The first uses his eye pupil for the identification, where the second uses his fingerprints. Dylan makes a copy of the second employee's handprints, where Natalie makes a lense of the first employee's eye. They get in successfully and retrieve the software.
While Natalie is on a date with Pete, where the two find themselves going steady, Alex is with her boyfriend, JASON GIBBONS (played by Matt LeBlanc, aka JOEY TRIBBIANI from Friends). Well, Jason isn't with Alex. Jason is on the set of his first movie, MAXIMUM EXTREME. Alex lives with Jason, where she is cooking him something. But while she is doing that, the trailer is shot up, leaving Alex unharmed. Jason arrives, but doesn't get much of a chance to talk to Alex, since she has to run to Natalie.
Natalie is in the bathroom at a club, where she is nearly killed by a thug. The thug works for...Vivian Wood. Vivian had planned this whole thing for some unknown reason. Dylan is with Knox, where the two have just slept together, but Dylan gets a surprise when she finds Knox with Vivian and the Thin Man. The three are working together. Knox believes that his father's death was planned as a murder and he believes that Charlie had done so, which is why he used Corwin as the culprit. The computer software was used to locate Charlie, so Knox can kill him.
The next day, the angels head out to Knox's hideout, where Natalie battles Vivian, where Alex battles, the Thin Man. Dylan helps her friends escape, as Vivian and the Thin Man are blown up with their hide out. Knox is on a jet, loaded with missles, where he is headed towards Charlie's beach house. He fires the missile, but the angels are on the sides of the jet, where they jammed the missiles. Dylan enters the jet, beats the sh*t out of Knox and jumps off with her friends by her sides. They did not jam the missiles, the cut his breaks, and reversed the missiles, where missile returns to Knox and blows him up.
The angles have done it again. Charlie has a way of picking gorgeous employees, who have the qualifications of kicking a** and saving the day. This lineup of Angels was great. The girls looked great and they kicked a**. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 31, 2005 | | Summary | Charlie's Angels Falls from Grace | Content
| Is it possible for one's brain cells to commit suicide? Is it possible for an IQ to drop in the matter of an hour and a half? I have pondered these and other mysteries of life in watching Charlie's Angels. The "angels" if that's what you would term the three scantily clad, bubbly women, truly fall from grace in this movie. The idea of three women kicking butt and saving the day is appealing, but must they do so only by looking sexy and stupid in the process. The martial arts sequences, if that's what you would call them, do little to actually kick butt. The plot, as in the second movie, (yes I was a masochist and forced myself to watch the second movie to see if an redeeming qualities exist)is severly lacking...Angelic...no they are not...With three recognizable and at least somewhat talented actresses it is surprizing that the movie could dizzy that far down into stupid, predictable and brainless |
| Rating | | | Date | May 31, 2005 | | Summary | Nutty, preposterous fun | Content
| A rich computer genius - the inventor of a revolutionary new voice recognition technology - has been kidnapped, and somebody's responsible! Who can ya call! (cue the music). With nowhere else to turn, the genius's beautiful partner calls on the famed Charles Townsend Detective Agency, whose business end is managed by three beautiful, tough and resourceful ladies who once...well, we never find out what they once were, but that doesn't matter since there appears little if anything they can't do. Of course they're not as mysterious as the identity of the reclusive Charles Townsend, but they get more high-energy action here. (Personally, I think he may be linked to the shadowy Blake Carrington, but that's just my theory.)
Each Angel epitomizes this differently - with Alex (Lucy Liu) being the most resourceful, Dylan (Drew Barrymore) as a tomboy who can fight off a quintet of baddies while tied to a chair (in a scene that riffs on a drugged and chair-bound Schwarzenegger's telling his captors exactly how he'll escape from his cuffs and what he'll do when he's out in "True Lies") and Natalie (Cameron Diaz) who won't let an epic judo-death match get in the way of snagging a date. Director McG knows that TV franchises haven't been doing that well on the screen (anybody catch "Mod Squad"?) so he turns the film into a cross between an extended music video, a parody of action movies and a barb aimed at the idea of taking TV to the big screen. (The film opens on an airplane where 1st class passengers are forced to watch "TJ Hooker, the Movie"). The strategy works mostly because of the power brought by the stars who know when to team up and when to grab the spotlight. With plenty of matrix-style fight scenes, every fight seems to bend the laws of gravity. The film also works on the strength of the co-stars - Bill Murray bringing his deadpan shtick to Bosley, but also Tom Green as Dylan's semi-psychotic boyfriend, Matt LeBlanc doing his Friends routine as a low-wage actor in bad movies, but also Crispin Glover as the psychotically silent android-like killer who enforces for the bad guys. If you need a reason to suspend your belief, if only for 2 hours, grab the Angels, and press "Play". |
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