Charlie's Angels

Although it was cheesy at times, I was surprised at how much I liked this movie. The special features section showed me how much time and money went into filming many of the movies action sequences. The effort paid off in quality. Charlie's Angels is a fast paced movie, with loads of comedic relief, and 3 great characters.

Its hard not to love strong intelligent women. Especially when they are given such eclectic backgrounds. From Charlie's Angels I learned how much a strong background can do for a character, and for the audience. Acting teachers are always telling actors to come up with an entire life line for their characters. Originally I thought it was so that the actors could relate to their characters better. From this I learned that its more important in the audiences ability to relate to the characters. I appreciated and understood Cameron Diaz's character much better because I knew she used to have braces and was a stunt driver.

Cameron Diaz is ditsi, Drew Barrymore is hardcore, and Luci Lui is Luci Lui. Together they form an elite crime fighting trio. While there are some cheesy moments, and the plot twist is somewhat predictable, it still made for interesting moments and relationships. Eric Knox hires the girls to steal control of his competitors software, so that he could locate and kill the Angel's anonymous boss.

By its nature, Charlie's Angels combines sex and action. Action because its a 3 person crime fighting team, and sex because they are women. They use their womenly features to their advantage, for trickery and deception. With one of the coolest opening scenes that sets the tone for the entire film, Charlies Angels could be considered my guilty pleasure, but maybe i shouldn't feel guilty.

Final rating: 4.3