Charlie's Angels
ABC | Release Date: September 22, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
9
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
PopMattersChris ConatonSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: Here everyone, even Bosley, seems interchangeable. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: Whoever reads those stilted lines, it won't make a difference. These angels never take flight. Read full review
50
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesChuck BarneySep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Unfortunately, no one pops off the screen the way Farrah once did. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowrySep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: Despite cosmetic flourishes (this time even Bosley has six-pack abs) and a few modest wrinkles, it's hard to escape feeling this is the same old excuse to put "babes" in skimpy outfits, both to thwart evil and inspire swearing off fatty foods. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 12, 2011
Season 1 Review: The underwhelming cast brings nothing to the boilerplate action. Kelly is miscast as a biker chick, and making Bosley a hunk with computer skills fails to add life. Read full review
42
NewsdayVerne GaySep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Reboots can work ("Hawaii Five-0"), but they haven't got a prayer if they lavishly, ludicrously, embrace all the hooey and hokum of the original. Welcome to the new Angels. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: The writing is glib (the term "cat fight" is actually used) and the action relies more on gadgetry than "Mission Impossible." However, the women all look great. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleySep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: They are your grandmother's Angels, throwbacks to an era when there was something contrary and cute about a woman with flowing hair and a lethal karate chop. Read full review
40
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Andrea ReiherSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: From shows like "Alias" to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to "Nikita," it has become commonplace to see hot chicks action stars. So a "Charlie's Angels" reboot has to offer something else in order to work. And it doesn't. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Hey, with a name like Charlie's Angels, at least viewers have a pretty good idea of what they're going to get: action, attractive women and gorgeous locations--but not much else. Read full review
25
People WeeklyTom GliattoOct 7, 2011
Season 1 Review: Done without any of the smart silliness that made Drew Barrymore's 2000 movie reboot so much fun, the show is just vixen nostalgia. [17 Oct 2011, p.42]
25
RedEyeCurt WagnerSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: Charlie's Angels is as absurd as the original 1976-81 series that launched the careers of Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett (and her hair). Read full review
25
HitfixAlan SepinwallSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's a much bigger mess than '70s critics ever accused the original of being. Read full review
25
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: It leads off the network's Thursday prime-time schedule, with the action originating in Miami and the scripts apparently bought from Godawful, Inc. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: [The original series] had energy and glamour and a self-aware sense of frothy fun, all of which are missing from this lugubrious update. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: Charlie's Angels is proof that angels exist in hell, because that's where it felt like I was during most of this hourlong drivel. Read full review
20
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GraySep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: I found the pilot for this reboot of that Aaron Spelling '70s show about "three little girls"--now played by Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor and Annie Ilonzeh--who work for a disembodied voice named Charlie to be pretty much unwatchable. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleySep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: If you like smart women who hide the iron fist under the velvet glove, you'll get more satisfaction elsewhere--like from, oh, say, Nikita over on the CW, who is better drama all by herself than this ill-served new trio of Angels. Read full review
10
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: Stripped of the novelty and the jiggle factor--these Angels are fully equipped with functioning underwear--the remake is reduced to its essential self, which is a comic book for the slow-witted. Read full review
10
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's not just a lazy idea, it's atrociously executed, pathetically acted and cynically conceived. Read full review
0
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: ABC's new drama Charlie's Angels seem to want to go back to the '70s to rustle up some girl power, but it fails miserably and offensively. Read full review
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Washington PostHank StueverSep 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: They come off as interchangeable affirmative-action figures who make Farrah and company look like early suffragettes who fought for the jiggle rights we now take for granted. Read full review
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