Charlie's Angels (2000)

Regisseur:

McG

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Ivan Goff (TV series) and
Ben Roberts (TV series) ...

Premierendatum:

3. November 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Abenteuer | Komödie | Thriller

Werbezeile:

Get Some Action

Plot:

Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal.

Plot Keywords:

Exploding Helicopter | Anonymity | Spy | Spy Spoof | Action Heroine

Filmpreise:

12 wins & 26 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Silly, but quite enjoyable if you're in the mood.

Besetzung

Cameron Diaz	...	Natalie Cook
Drew Barrymore	...	Dylan Sanders
Lucy Liu	...	Alex Munday
Bill Murray	...	John Bosley
Sam Rockwell	...	Eric Knox
Kelly Lynch	...	Vivian Wood
Tim Curry	...	Roger Corwin
Crispin Glover	...	Thin Man
Luke Wilson	...	Pete Komisky
John Forsythe	...	Charles Townsend (voice)
Matt LeBlanc	...	Jason Gibbons
Tom Green	...	Chad
LL Cool J	...	Mr. Jones
Sean Whalen	...	Pasqual
Tim Dunaway	...	Flight Attendant

Alternativ:

3 Engel für Charlie (Deutschland)
Charlie's Angels: The Movie (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for action violence, innuendo and some sensuality/nudity.

Länge:

98 Min | Portugal:94 Min (cut version)

Produktionsland:

USA | Deutschland

Sprache:

Englisch | Japanisch | Finnisch | Kantonesisch | Deutsch | Französisch | Spanisch

Farbe:

Farbe (DeLuxe)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

SDDS (8 channels) | DTS | Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #37229) | Malaysia:U | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Canada:PG | Denmark:11 | Finland:K-14 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Ireland:12 | Mexico:B | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG (censored version) | South Korea:15 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | Greece:K-13

Drehorte:

7121 Lonzo Street, Tujunga, Los Angeles, California, USA

Firma:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Dies und das:

The Thin Man, played by Crispin Glover, originally had a speaking role, but Glover didn't like the lines, so he asked for them to be removed. The director and producer agreed to make it a non-speaking role to give the character a more mysterious feel.

Pannen:

Filmfehler: While the Nokia Communicator cell phone rings, there is the name "CHARLIE" displayed on the LCD screen. But, instead of giving the owner an option to accept or reject the call, the display reads "Detail" and "Exit". This proves no one is calling - someone is just browsing the phone's memory.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Flight Attendant: I said, "Look, lady, it's not the seats that have gotten smaller, it's your ass that has gotten bigger."

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Soundtrack:

BILLIE JEAN

Silly, but quite enjoyable if you're in the mood.

Three little girls have become three little ladies who work as special agents for Charlie (via intermediary Bosley). When they are contracted in to get evidence of Roger Corwin stealing the kidnapped Eric Knox's voice recognition device. The agents are successful but Knox turns out to have more sinister motives and the angels find themselves fighting to protect Charlie and Bosley.

Yet another in a line of film remake's of old TV shows, in the words of LL Cool J `yet another remake of an old TV show'. However this just about succeeds for one simple reason – it never tries to take itself seriously. This works because it can be camp, silly and OTT because we know it's meant to be. The plot is OK and has some reasonable twists but really the jokes and action move it along. The silliness can get a bit much at times and is a little tiring.

For example we have far too many shots of the girls tossing their hair, and too many scenes that mean nothing. Eg a high speed car chase ends on a bridge but it has no reason for happening and nothing happens as a result. The fights are very OTT and are very much a matrix rip off – they are only just saved by the tongue in cheek attitude of the film. But even then they still silly.

The cast are OK but really they are just playing daft. Rockwell is really good and Bill Murray saves the whole film by being really funny. Tom Green is in it because his girlfriend felt sorry for him and wanted him to be in a film that got shown in a cinema outside of the US, however his character is stupid and pointless. Wilson is good and LL Cool J makes a good cameo, but Tim Curry has been better.

Overall it's enjoyable if you're in the mood for silly popcorn trash. If you're not in the mood this will only serve to irritate you at how poor Hollywood blockbusters can be.