All at once, the new movie
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Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,
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currently playing at Premiere Cinemas, is both an homage to the
70s television show and an outlandish spoof of the primarily male
action genre.
All at once, the new movie “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” currently playing at Premiere Cinemas, is both an homage to the 70s television show and an outlandish spoof of the primarily male action genre.
I know right off the bat that a number of people are going to disagree with me on this movie because I really enjoyed it.
This one-hour and 45-minute release from Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony, is a real hoot. I enjoyed its outrageous sense of humor and over-the-top style of action.
This is not a movie for anyone who is looking for great acting, but director McG (born Joseph McGinty Nichol) makes sure that whatever this movie lacks in thespian endeavors it makes up for it with pure fun .
Yes many of the exploits in this movie are unrealistic, but hat works because McG and producer Drew Barrymore never let the movie take itself too seriously.
For example, during the opening sequence, Alex, Lucy Liu’s character, is in the basement of this heavily guarded mountain fortress as she tries to rescue a government agent played by Robert Patrick (you might remember him as the evil terminator from “Terminator 2.” Do you think it was just coincidence that he was in this movie which opened a few days before “Terminator 3”).
After Alex single-handedly pummels three armed guards and tells him that she “will be his rescuer for the day”
An astonished Palmer glares back at her “There must be 50 heavily armed men up there.”
She jokingly replies “I know, it just doesn’t seem fair now does it,” with a tone of sympathy for her would-be assailants.
But it’s that kind of tongue in cheek humor, which has been reserved mainly for male action stars that sets this movie apart.
The use of humor doesn’t stop there. Filmmakers made great use of humor by bringing in a large number of cameos including one from original Charlie’s Angel Jaclyn Smith.
But the best cameo in the movie had to be Bruce Willis’ because his ex-wife Demi Moore plays an angel gone bad, Madison Lee. So of course, who is the first person Moore’s character gets to kill, (you guessed it).
But the most important part of this movie is the message it sends to young girls, that despite the campy jokes and sexually laced innuendoes, here is an image of three fiercely independent women working together as a team who can accomplish anything they set their minds to. They don’t need men to come rescue them or save the day. There are no catfights, backstabbing or arguing over men. They can maintain a true bond of friendship.
