Charlie's Angels [DVD] [2000]

Happily Charlie's Angels is a surprisingly successful TV-into-movie update of the seminal 1970s jiggle show. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore (who also produced) and Lucy Liu star as the hair-tossing, fashion-setting, kung-fu fighting trio employed by the mysterious Charlie (voiced by the original Charlie, John Forsythe). When a high-tech programmer (Sam Rockwell) is kidnapped, the angels seek out the suspects, with the daffy Bosley (Bill Murray in a casting coup) in tow. A happy, cornball popcorn flick, Charlie's Angels is played for laughs with plenty of ribbing references to the old TV show as well as modern caper films like Mission: Impossible. McG, a music video director making his feature film debut (usually a death warrant for a movie's integrity), infuses the film with plenty of Matrix-style combat pyrotechnics, and the result is the first successful all-American Hong Kong-style action flick. Plenty of movies boast a New Age feminism that has their stars touting their sexuality while being their own women, but unlike something as obnoxious as Coyote Ugly, Angels succeeds with a positive spin on Girl Power for the new millennium (Diaz especially sizzles in her role of crack super agent/airhead blonde). From the send-up of the TV show's credit sequence to the outtakes over the end credits, Charlie's Angels is a delight. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

DVD Special Features:

"Welcome to Angel World" Featurette
"Angelic Attire" Featurette
"Getting G'd Up" (Director McG) Featurette
"The Master and the Angels" (martial arts/stunts) Featurette
"Angelic Effects" (Special FX) Featurette
"Wired Angels" - Chinese Alley Scene Deconstruction
3 Deleted/Extended Scenes with intro from McG outtakes
Destiny's Child/Apollo 440 Music Videos
Feature Length Commentary
5 Trailers
Weblink
Filmographies
Animated Menus
Dolby Digital 5.1
Languages: English, Hungarian
Subtitles: English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Arabic

Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu are CHARLIE'S ANGELS - a trio of elite private investigators who, with the latest high-tech gadgets, martial arts techniques and a vast array of disguises, unleash their state-of-the art skills on land, sea and air. Their goal, to track down a kidnapped billionaire-to-be and keep his top-secret voice-identification software out of lethal hands.

Aided by their faithful lieutennant Bosley (Bill Murray) and under the sure hand of their suave playboy boss, notorious for his clever ways of avoiding face-to-face meetings, the girls must foil an elaborate murder-revenge plot that could destroy individual privacy and corporate security worldwide. Adventure has never been more beautiful!

Columbia, TriStar, CDR29077 Region 2 PAL 2000 94 mins