Charlie’s Angels (2000) review: Is Charlie gay?
(First published on Dooyoo in 2000)
Charlie’s Angels are three female private investigators who work for millionaire Charlie Townsend. They communicate with their boss only via an intercom and through intermediary, Bosley. The exact reasons as to why it is so imperative they never see Charlie have always escaped me but never mind, maybe Charlie is a mans man and isn’t interested in good looking women. The film is based on a successful TV show of the same name from the seventies.
Having seen the trailers, I expected it to be tongue-in-cheek fun, and it was, just not as much fun as I’d hoped for. The film doesn’t take itself seriously and the intentions of this Charlie’s Angels remake are unashamedly set out in the opening scene. We start on an aeroplane where the in-flight entertainment film was, T.J.Hooker and someone remarks, “Oh, not another movie from an old TV show.”
A computer expert who runs his own company specialising in voice recognition techniques has been kidnapped and Charlie’s Angels are employed by the victim’s business partner/girlfriend to rescue him. From this basic premise, the plot takes us on some unimaginative and predictable twists.
The Angels were great to look at and their assets are fully exploited - well not “fully”, but there are enough cleavage and butt shots to keep most men (and a small section of women) happy. Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu play the Angels. All of which to me, are unconventionally attractive, but fascinating.
Bill Murray plays Bosley, and was wasted in this film. He had very little to do and there was nothing for him to get his teeth into character-wise. He’d have been better suited to play the bad guy except maybe Drew Barrymore (who had a hand in the directing) preferred to kiss someone a little better looking.
Tim Curry and Matt LeBlanc were equally underused. Tim Curry - the archetypal bad guy - had an almost cameo part. He had the funniest line in the whole film in the massage scene with one of the Angels who was posing as a masseur - which I won’t spoil by quoting.
Charlie’s Angels is a decent film as long as you don’t expect anything deep and you just want popcorn action.
Written by Andy(ArT)Trigg on April 14th, 2008 with
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