It's a hollow package that dumbs down wherever possible.
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05/20/08
Charlie's Angels (2000)
68 %
Reviews Counted: 133 Fresh: 90 Rotten:43 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Consensus:
The story and plot are nothing to write home about, but the movie has enough action and campy fun to entertain the skeptics.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Synopsis: A trio of elite private investigators armed with the latest in high-tech tools, high-performance vehicles, martial arts techniques and a vast array of disguises unleash their state-of-the-art skills on land, sea and air to track down a kidnapped computer ace and keep his top-secret... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Matt LeBlanc
Director: Joseph McGinty
Screenwriter: John August, Ryan Rowe, Ed Solomon
Producer: Leonard J. Goldberg, Nancy Juvonen, Drew Barrymore
Composer: Ed Shearmur
Screenwriter: John August, Ryan Rowe, Ed Solomon
Producer: Leonard J. Goldberg, Nancy Juvonen, Drew Barrymore
Composer: Ed Shearmur
Reviews
Top Critic
This is nothing but trailer moments. Ex-pop video director McG couldn't organise a pillow fight in a bedding factory.
02/09/06
Top Critic
This is the enjoyably dumb action movie that Mission Impossible could (and should) have been.
10/30/02
A film whose slick editing and glib lines are absolutely no substitute for real drama and proper exchanges.
04/16/01
Top Critic
It strains to be funny with unwelcome forced cheese that instantly hits the floor, in the midst of inappropriate music and nonsensical movements by the actors that launch themselves upon us through rapid fire cuts and gaudily bright photography.
02/07/01
The end result is muddled, to say the least; visually stylish, sporadically entertaining, yet all-too-frequently painful.
01/01/00
Top Critic
The film is the equivalent of the 'dumb blonde' of action movies. No plot? No problem. Smile pretty now.
07/14/07
Charlie's Angels is like a Hong Kong flick but without the bogus spirituality and excruciating schlock-pop ballads.
06/30/03
Charlie's Angels never slows down, and even when it's not delivering the thrills or a fun fight scene, it's being just plain funny.
06/24/03
A virtual big-budget explosion? Yes. A spectacle of three great actresses making fools of themselves? Sure. MTV-worthy martial arts monages that shamelessly rip off The Matrix? Yessireebob. But a movie? No. Not for an instant.
05/22/03
For a movie that gets its inspiration from one of the cheesiest television shows of the extra-cheesy 1970s, Charlie's Angels is surprisingly cool.
02/08/03
Although the action movie is the last bastion of the male star, Charlie’s Angels should change all that.
08/02/02
This wants to spoof macho action movies.... But lacking a coherent script to link the jokes, these Angels are left without a prayer.
06/18/02
Diaz, Barrymore and Liu obviously relish each costume change and, unsurprisingly, they look sensational regardless of what they're wearing -- or not wearing, as the case may be.
06/09/02
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