Charlie's Angels

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2016

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

One of the most surprising things about McG's big screen reboot of Charlie's Angels is that it took as long as it did to materialize. The trend of reheating old TV shows by giving them a glossy new paintjob was already starting to feel a little played out when this was released in the fall of 2000, but excitement for the film was bolstered by the star power of its eclectic cast and a wildly successful tie-in soundtrack.

Not even a year later, the world would change in an unbelievably profound way and it turns out there's a lot about the movie you sort of have to view through that prism. It wants to be a rallying cry for a new generation of girls who are just discovering "girl power" and feminism while simultaneously appealing to the juvenile sensibilities of 15-year-old boys. It's a tight rope that the film only occassionally manages to walk, but overall it still feels like its heart was in the right place.

Topics include: why this was exactly what Donna needed when it was first released, the premise of the opening sequence and how it acts as a microcosm of everything that's wrong with this plot, Chris' issue with the angels feeling too indistinguishable from one another, what exactly was going on with Bill Murray at this point in time, the overuse of wire-fu and bullet time in the wake of The Matrix, an aspect of the fight choreography that actually works really well, the inspired casting of Crispen Glover and how much he brought to his role, the fun structure of the script that makes it feel like several mini-episodes of the show, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Charlie's Angels?
0:06.1	Hello and welcome, Hey, do you remember, Hey Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.9	I'm Chris.
0:32.5	I'm Donna.
0:33.3	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.2	And today we're revisiting Charlie's Angels.
0:53.3	Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Charlie's Angels. The millennium has arrived and America is rocking it. Bill Clinton has left us with a nice little economic surplus, along with quite a few stains for the cleaning crew at the White House to attend to. But it's time for him to go, and in four days, we'll head to the polls to see what becomes of the most hotly contested elections
1:11.5	of our time, hopefully. But before that shitstorm reigns down upon us, some of us lucky enough
1:17.6	will climb into our 1992 Saturn twin cams, maybe jam out to a little group called Destiny's
1:23.1	child, and head to the local movie house to see what a music video director called McGee has to say about a 1970s TV show.
1:32.7	In this hot pink reboot, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Lou, and Cameron Diaz are Dylan, Alex, and Natalie,
1:40.2	three wildly successful, strikingly gorgeous women who fight crime for an anonymous billionaire, voiced by John Forsyth.
1:47.9	He is the original Charlie, and they are the angels for a new generation.
1:52.6	They are guided by a bumbling but sweet Bosley, played by a man our generation would come to regard as one of our greatest treasures, the incomparable Bill Murray.
2:02.7	The angels are charged with finding Eric Knox, a software genius played by Sam Rockwell, who has
2:07.9	recently been kidnapped and his software stolen, which is a revolutionary voice recognition technology.
2:14.8	His partner, his partner Vivian Wood, Kelly Lynch,
2:19.2	hires the angels and explains his only enemy is Roger Corwin,
2:23.8	a reclusive doctor who can be found in the velvet darkness of the blackest night.
2:30.1	No, no, no, but it is, it's Tim Curry.
2:32.2	It's Tim Curry.
2:32.7	That was the rocky joke.
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