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Charlie's Angels -- Superbit [2000]
from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell
directed by McG

Features:

• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

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.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• not as good as the 70s
  this new charlies angels film is very good,but the classic angels are still the very best angels.However the film is very well made and i guess it introduces charlies angels to a new generation.preety good.
  

• Beautiful women kick ass & rock
  And that's the whole of the script! Inspired. It's great fun, very entertaining. Sorry about the spoiler.

• A creative Difference
  We are all familiar with the TV series.... The movie is better than the show. It has a believable plot and all the girls seem to work well together, instead of just jiggle (Though it is here). There is a lot of action in this movie. The girls look like they had fun in this movie, especially Cameron Diaz. The Martial Arts fights are campy, but done in the Chinese tradition of high flying. If you sit down to watch the film and take it as the fun that was intended, you'll love

• Good Adaptation of the series
  Okay, so, there are times when I am a sucker for movies based on television shows. Seeing as how I was a huge fan of the original television series, I decided to give this one a try and I was not disappointed.
  At least with the movie, they had a bigger budget to make the action sequences a lot more enjoyable and Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu do a fine job as the three newest Charlie's Angels.
  The only one they bring back from the television series, though, is John Forsythe, the voice... more info

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