No real spoilers; the movie, after all, contained no surprises.
Guy wires and bluescreen in a movie are a bit like ginger in cooking: If it crosses your mind that it’s in there, the director has used too much. Of course, movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix taught a new generation of filmmakers that you can go over the top with it as a stylistic statement; I think the lesson from CA:FT is that you can, in fact, lard on too much of it to the detriment of a movie. And I say this as someone who enjoyed the first Charlie’s Angels movie. It got to the point where even the office scenes had unnecressary CGI.
Yeah, I know, action spectaculars are like roller-coaster rides and if you’re noticing the plot holes, you’re in the wrong place. But this movie bore so little resemblance to real life that I swear the next five movies I pay full ticket price for will be of the Dogma 95 variety (or at least something like Bend It Like Beckham).
Demi Moore in fur and lingerie looks exquisite; she’d look better in a movie that didn’t suck as much as this one, though.
Watching that movie made me feel like I was being punished for a crime I didn’t commit. A terrible, terrible crime. Possibly against all of humanity.
But Crispin Glover was good.
What the hell did they do to the sky? They’d be walking around, an it would be a normal shot on normal filmstock (not anything arty) and then whenever the sky was in the shot it looked like they used the photoshop paint bucket to make it blue. It was jarring, and not in a good way, more like in a “they ran out of money at that point” kind of way.
And Demi Moore in a bikini was scary. She had the same body as the tattooed Irish badguy. All leathery with veins popping out. At least when she was in lingerie they had the sense to smear some vaseline over the lens so you didn’t have to see how scary her skin was.
The fiancé dude and I are going to see it this evening. It’s fluff, pure and simple. The first movie didn’t take itself too seriously, and was delightfully self-referential. I have a thing for 70s TV show movie remakes…
Was there ever an explanation for the old Bosleys?
Bill Murray wasn’t asked back–he and Lucy Liu didn’t get along last time around–but he’s apparently a foundling of the Bosley family (there have been others), and the Bosley family has some secret connection with Charley. Bernie Mac is an actual, blood-related Bosley.
I was wondering–exactly why was Crispin Glover in the movie at all? If it was just for the creepiness factor, okay, but I didn’t see where he did anything besides pull hair and scream. I saw the first Charlie’s Angels and thoroughly enjoyed it. This movie didn’t seem to have a plot–just a series of ever expanding stunts. I did like the guest Angel auditions, though. Can anyone tell me who the old lady guest Angel was? She was in the scene right after Eve. She didn’t look like a real old lady; she looked like she was wearing old age makeup.
This movie could have been called Charlies Angels: Full Dribble.
Nice scenery- as in the women, not the special effects. Drew is looking a bit worse for wear, or I am imagining things, other than that, YUM.
Worst. Movie. Ever.
Did anybody else get some Deja vu during the scene with Drew Barrymore in the Mexican bar when that old guy slapped her on the ass? I am wondering if it is just me that thought of Superman right off.
Lots of ass-shaking on the screen, but lame. Matrix-esque fighting just for the sake of it. A plot that I could have written better after flying the redeye from the west coast. And just too damn many costume changes for the girls. I can see some of them, but welders on the side of a ship? Just to look at someone through binoculars and then JUMP from your perch into the water?
Too many people in the movie, not enough story to get in the way of the fight scenes.
I think they were doing “homage” to several movies in it, though. The scene when they are in their nun habits was (I think) a reference to The Blues Brothers - the scooting up of the desks, the scolding by the nun.
Sadly, the “outtakes” reel at the end was the best part of the movie!
When Drew was in the drinking contest at the beginning, I half-expected her to say: “Whew, this was a lot easier when I was twelve.”
Semi-spoiler:
Although it was implied that Demi was the one who killed Bruce Willis (who else but an Angel could take out all those guards?), she should have been seen doing it, instead of in a faceless ninja suit. She kills him and then takes his ring: now THAT’S a divorce!
I was kinda put off by all the “mystery woman” crap, showing the villian in shadow. I mean, duh, who else could it possibly be? Plus every review of the movie has described Demi Moore as an Angel gone bad. Seeing her in vague shadow makes me feel cheated, since we should have seen her in evil black lingerie throughout the entire film.
So much competition. I think it might be the dumbest movie ever, though, since almost every line was cringe-worthy.
I know, I know, you’re not supposed to pay attention to the dialogue. I know you’re not supposed to care that your intelligence is constantly insulted, but I still don’t like it when movies do that. Anyway, cringing at the lines was the only way to distract myself from the film’s lack of respect for the laws of physics. It’s been said before, but I think wire fighting and slow-mo bullet dodging is now the most cliche thing in all of movie-dom.
Incidentally, has there EVER been a worse movie accent than Justin Theroux as Seamus O’Grady? (Why Seamus? Did they think we wouldn’t have known he was Irish if his name had been John?) Wow. I can’t imagine there’s ever been a worse attempt at an Irish accent, anyway. My favorite line was “I’m gonna taych yer frends a lesson about peein’.” Yes, peein’.
I guess I enjoyed it. But the one thing that pissed me off was the “physics” of the movie. It was way too fake (the jumping into a helipcopter, sliding down the mooring line on a board, etc.). IIRC there wasn’t any of that in the forst one (with exception to the skydiving scene at the begining).
Oh ya they ripped a bunch of TV and movies off:
“Raiders of the lost Ark” - Drew Barrymore drinking scene
“CSI” - When the dressed-up like CSI agents
“Cape Fear” - They played the them music when Seamus was being released
“Blues Brother” - Carrie Fisher as “Mother Superior” in an orphanage
I have to object to this being called the dumbest movie ever. Have any of you tried to watch “Dumb and Dumber”? or it’s sequal “Dumb and Dumberer” or whatever the hell it is. I have never made it through an entire showing of the first one, and will aviod the other one at all costs. Too stupid to even be a good “put me to sleep for a saturday afternoon nap” movie.
And MtM, you did get the fact that those “rip-offs” were poking fun at the shows in question, didn’t you? I thought the CSI one was hilariouse. I guess you just had to realize that the movie was poking fun at itself along with everything else. I think they went overboard on the “stunts” just to drive home how ridiculouse most “action” movies are…but that’s just mho.
I think it might be the dumbest movie ever, though, since almost every line was cringe-worthy.