June 28, 2003

• Last night was ‘Winged Migration.’ Tonight was ‘Charlies Angels: Full Throttle.’
  
  I loved the first one. I really did. It had everything a movie about three ultra-attractive women who fight crime should have. Most specifically, Lucy Liu with a riding crop. Then again, just about any movie should have Lucy Liu with a riding crop in it. ‘Lord of the Rings?’ Sure! We can work her in some how.
  
  This sequel adds some character development, which could have worked if they’d actually tried. Most notably, they spend all this time developing a back story about Crispin Glover’s character from the previous movie, and then he just shows up for 30 seconds at the end and dies. The rest of the so-called plot is stilted and irrelevant, but that’s fine, because its only purpose is to glue together fight scenes.
  
  It’s fun, it’s funny, it’s stupid and inane with occassional glimmering intelligent moments, it has so many in-jokes it’s difficult to keep track (Example: Drew Barrymore, child star of the movie ‘Firestarter,’ has a Zippo lighter she carries around as a lucky charm, and in one scene she watches in amazement as a bad guy emerges from a wall of fire, just as her character did in that movie. The soundtrack music during this scene? Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter.’), but it’s worth going to see if you’re tired of using your mind.

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