Where to watch Charlie’s Angels
3 1/2 Stars
The captivating crime-fighting trio who are the masters of disguise, espionage, and martial arts. When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plot to destroy individual privacy, the Angels, aided by their loyal sidekick Bosley (Bill Murray), set out to bring down the bad guys. But when a terrible secret is revealed, it makes the Angels targets for assassination.
The captivating crime-fighting trio who are the masters of disguise, espionage, and martial arts. When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plot to destroy individual privacy, the Angels, aided by their loyal sidekick Bosley (Bill Murray), set out to bring down the bad guys. But when a terrible secret is revealed, it makes the Angels targets for assassination.
Charlie’s Angels was a corny television show with a ridiculous premise, and the 2000 film based on that series is a ridiculously entertaining movie with the same outlandish concept. McG’s glossy film, featuring the alluring trio of Diaz, Barrymore, and Liu, amplifies the breeziness. The movie’s supporting cast is populated by Bill Murray, Tim Curry, Sam Rockwell, and Kelly Lynch; each is uniformly well-cast, and all add their flavor to this quirky cinematic recipe that goes against convention to become one of the year’s biggest guilty pleasures.
This movie showcases the sun-drenched, fit-bodied, adrenaline junkie aesthetic that Baywatch popularized a decade before. Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu have never been sexier on-screen, and Drew Barrymore continues her 1990s cinematic resurgence in a project that showcases beautiful people doing dangerous things in exotic destinations. I don’t know what I was expecting when I saw Charlie’s Angeles, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so much fun. See the 2019 reboot as a prime exhibit of how to mishandle the same concept.
Directed by: McG
Written by: Ryan Rowe, Ed Solomon, John August
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu