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Charlie's Angels 15,
90mins
Director: McG
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu and Bill Murray
Where: Nationwide
When: Now
Rating: 
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The storyline for this big-screen, big-bucks, big-bangs update of the classic 70s TV series is flimsier than the cotton dress which, at one hilariously memorable moment, catches on broken glass, unravels and saves Barrymore from falling to her death.
It's all about a revenge plot against Charlie himself (who, true to the spirit of the series, is still just a voice on a speakerphone) that sees the girlie trio of private detectives running, fighting and kickboxing for their lives. And it's so underwritten that it makes the original look like Chekov.
But you don't go to Charlie's Angels the movie looking for intellectual stimulation: you go for action and adventure and tongue-in-cheek giggles. It delivers all of those.
Producer Barrymore is anti-guns, so these action heroines use their fists instead of firearms. But she's clearly not anti-tits and ass, since her ample cleavage gets plenty of widescreen coverage, Diaz shakes her booty for the camera and Liu gets a dominatrix-style makeover.
Feminists might find all this good cause to cry outrage at their next women's group meeting, but you'd have to be a real right-on sourpuss to take all the slo-mo hair tossing, vampish costume changes and the fact that Diaz answers her mobile in the middle of a scrap seriously.
The usually ace Murray is a letdown as sidekick Bosley – maybe he was sulking because of a reported row with Liu. But the girls are fabulously funny and director McG, who made his name with pop videos, keeps the whole thing whizzing along. Here's to the sequel!
Simon Button 22.11.00
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