Charlie's Angels

The recently released Charlie's Angels movie, starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu, is absolutely delightful. It has all the good qualities of the TV series: improbable fight scenes, lots of derring-do, exotic locations around L.A., feathered haircuts (Cameron Diaz's is particularly excellent), lots of lip gloss, and pink-tinted sunglasses. The only bad things I can say about the movie is that Bill Murray is in it, and that Matrix-s

tyle fight scenes are now so common as to be cliched (though these are as much parody as homage).

Another point in the movie's favor, for those of us who like movies of all types, is the observation made by my colleague Mr. Blake Ethridge: Charlie's Angels, like X-Men, is a movie that has no pretensions. Just as X-Men knew it was a comic-book come to life, Charlie's Angels knows that it is a cheesy TV-show magically transported to the big screen. This means that it delivers exactly what it promises, and you leave the theater feeling contented that you got your money's worth. Maybe it's just me, but I'm happy to hear silly dialogue and follow fanciful plots so long as I knew beforehand that that's what I was signing up for, and the film-makers take seriously their duty to provide exactly that.

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