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Based on the babe-a-licious show from the 1970s, CHARLIE'S ANGELS is a defiantly goofy action movie featuring plenty of comedy and a strong sense of girl power. Three talented young women work for the mysterious Charles Townsend: Natalie (Cameron Diaz), the bubbly blond science expert; Dylan (Drew Barrymore), the rebellious .. Read more

Starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray
Director Joseph McGinty
Genres Action/Adventure, Comedy

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Charlie's Angels

Based on the babe-a-licious show from the 1970s, CHARLIE'S ANGELS is a defiantly goofy action movie featuring plenty of comedy and a strong sense of girl power. Three talented young women work for the mysterious Charles Townsend: Natalie (Cameron Diaz), the bubbly blond science expert; Dylan (Drew Barrymore), the rebellious tomboy; and Alex (Lucy Liu), the tough Angel who has trouble telling her boyfriend that she's a highly skilled secret agent. The Angels are assigned to locate Eric Knox (Sam Rockwell), a kidnapped computer expert whose new software could threaten global security if it were to fall into the wrong hands. The women go undercover to investigate this devious tycoon and are faced with double crosses, explosions, and the mysterious Thin Man. From the acclaimed music-video director McG (Joseph McGinty), CHARLIE'S ANGELS wastes little time on plot, instead presenting audiences with a series of spectacular MATRIX-style fight sequences, car chases, and stunts. Diaz, Barrymore, and Liu as the three Angels give terrific performances worthy of a new breed of female action hero, kicking major butt while remaining lovable and sexy. The movie also stars Bill Murray as the Angels' mentor, Bosley, and John Forsythe as the voice of Charlie.

Starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Kelly Lynch, Tim Curry, Sam Rockwell, Crispin Glover
Director Joseph McGinty
Studio SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 39 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Collections 100 Feisty Females
Genres Action/Adventure, Comedy
Language English
Dubbed Hungarian
Subtitles Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 21 May 2001
Production year: 2000
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (5) of Charlie's Angels

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    This take on one of the most popular TV shows of the 1970s by director McG (Joseph McGinty Nichol) is a gossamer-thin, pop culture patchwork that misses the Austin Powers benchmark by miles. If postmodern irony was indeed the aim of this tacky, cheap-looking and tedious female empowerment fantasy, the target was missed completely by the wrong-headed use of shampoo-commercial direction and glaring retro-disco lighting. Beginning on a low note of self-referential camp, the movie never aims higher than star and co-producer Drew Barrymore's plunging neckline.?She's part of the vampy super agent trio, alongside Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, hired to find a kidnapped software genius — a storyline that twists to jeopardise the life of reclusive head honcho Charlie (voiced as ever by John Forsythe). With its reheated plot, trashy single-entendre humour and ho-hum thrills, this rickety chick flick charmlessly sashays its bland way from one kitsch set piece to the next. If a way had been found to spread the good time Diaz is clearly having with her role over this entire disaster, then Charlie's Angels might have been a lot more fun. But it wasn't, leaving this as little more than stultifying eye-candy, brimful of skin-tight costumes, lightweight Bond action and slow-motion hair flips. Thank heavens for Bill Murray, whose reliable presence as Bosley rescues the whole thing from total doom.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...Cameron Diaz is fantastic....She has an old-style star power which lights up the screen the second she smiles....Drew Barrymore is wry and funny..."

    • Sight and Sound
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 20 out of 23 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Never send a man to do a woman's job.

    Awesome action sequences with high-flying explosions, high-speed chases, fascinating and beautifully choreographed martial art sequences, and excellent special effects all directed with flash and style. There are hot women who work in bikinis, lots of guns, a large software company with a ridiculously complicated security system...All the ingredients for fun, senseless, campy eye-candy. And an awful, awful plot, of course.

    But it doesn’t really need one. This film is simple light entertainment and doesn’t pretend to be anything else. The actresses all played their parts perfectly, with the right combination of strength and whimsy. The villains were all a bit one dimensional, but again I think that this effect was intentional in a movie that is more about eye candy and being a caricature of itself that it is about plot and character development.

    Won 12 awards, mainly for the soundtrack.

    • JediSi
      • JediSi
      • Posted 30 Aug 2007 18:30

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  • 5 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Dumb fun

    This is not a good movie. But it is a FUN movie. The plot is laughable, the acting firmly tongue-in-cheek, the direction overblown, the script riddled with double-entendres - all of these things which make it bad, conversely, make it good in the final analysis. It barrels along with it's own demented energy, barely pausing for longer than a minute as it gears up for another giddy fight scene or slow-mo hair-tossing spectacle. The three leads seem to be enjoying themselves immensely, adopting ludicrous disguises and dispatching bad guys without even breaking a nail. They all look gorgeous, and know it, while the director ('McV', or some such nonsense) delights in offering close-ups of their scantily clad rears. Admittedly, as a guy, this was part of the film's appeal, but the ladies in the audience seemed to love watching some glamorous women kicking the crap out of people, so it presumably has cross-gender appeal. Give it a try.

      • A customer from Notting Hill
      • Posted 21 Sep 2003 16:12

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    Terminator - Salvation

    McG will never return to Charlie's Angels

    • 21 May 2009

    Mcg will never direct another Charlie'S Angels movie - because he wants to concentrate on establishing himself as a sci-fi film-maker. McG was at the helm of the 2000 big screen version of the classic TV series, starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, and returned to direct the sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, in 2003. Barrymore confirmed earlier this year (09) that the three angels are set to reprise their roles for another film. But McG won't be taking to the director's... Read more

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