| 100 |
San Francisco Examiner
So phenomenal that Bill Murray can't even steal it. And he tries. So excellent that Murray's MTV progeny Tom Green can't sink it.
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| 80 |
Slate
A charming, hyper-energetic, and wittily self-aware action comedy about gorgeous girls.
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| 80 |
Rolling Stone
These kickass Barbies bring heart to a machine tooled genre.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
The gals are fab. And so's the movie.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
A simply flat-out fun film.
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| 75 |
New York Post
The film's tongue is so firmly in cheek that, without being a spoof like "Dragnet" or "The Brady Bunch Movie," it has more in common with the "Austin Powers" films.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
A babe-athon, pure and simple.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
An update with a jolt of sheer exuberance.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Irresistible, campy fun.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
Charlie's Angels is finally Cameron Diaz's movie. Her Natalie has a heart as insecure as her body is smokin'.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Something rare: a mess of a movie that is somehow infectious, and infectious not despite the mess, but because of it.
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| 70 |
Salon.com
Who cares about the fate of privacy, of all things, when you can watch three sexy babes stamp out crime in zip-off suits and high-heeled boots?
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| 67 |
Portland Oregonian
A big, loud, sometimes clever, often dumb behemoth of a movie.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
The most charming bad movie ever spun off a hit TV show.
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| 63 |
USA Today
It's to these Angels' credit that they, like the movie, are at least intermittent fun.
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| 60 |
Variety
This entertaining confection possesses the substance of the TV show, the pacing of a Hong Kong actioner and the production values of a James Bond thriller.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
It never pretends that it's anything more than trashy, cheesy fun. But even trash -- especially trash this expensive -- should at least be well made. Sure, it's easy on the eyes, but would a little brains be too much to ask?
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| 50 |
Charlotte Observer
The dialogue includes double entendres that are rather clever, if you're mentally at the age of 11.
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| 50 |
Mr. Showbiz
The movie's still thinner than a supermodel's waist. It's not just that the results are less than heavenly; it's that we don't know what the hell they are.
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| 50 |
Time
The best you can say for this version of Charlie's Angels is that it retains a sort of chipper, eerie good nature as it wastes the studio's money and our time.
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| 50 |
Film.com
Moira Macdonald
While it's not exactly the complete bomb that some were predicting, Charlie's Angels is ultimately just an amiable mess.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
What's on screen is a hash, though it may very well be the most comprehensive catalog of male erotic fantasies in one single film.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Too bad the action scenes rarely rise above standard kung-fu comedy, diluting the film's otherwise considerable entertainment value.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
A potato chip of a movie. Tasty and lightweight, it's fine for a cinematic snack, if that's what you're looking for. Making it an entire meal, however, really isn't advisable.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
The cheesy disco action scenes are topped only by the movie's ripe double entendres and continual cheesecake.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
At its best, it is self-effacing fun.But the cartoonish approach takes its toll: The random twists and contrived showdowns devolve into just so much abstract business, too silly to take seriously and too unmotivated to make sense.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
The first third or so offers all the dominatrix fantasies one might wish for, but then fantasy gives way to the aggressiveness of the special effects and optical effects.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
So inconsequential that it starts evaporating from memory the minute it's over.
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| 40 |
Dallas Observer
It tries to be both camp and action film--send-up and kick-ass. But it delivers so little on both fronts.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
A tarted-up but tedious reprise of the '70s TV series.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Of course, it's terrible -- but did it have to be this bad?
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
An utter debacle.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
It's hard to believe how bad this movie is.
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| 12 |
Chicago Sun-Times
It's a movie without a brain. Charlie's Angels is like the trailer for a video game movie, lacking only the video game, and the movie.
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