- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 22, 2011
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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.
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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]
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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).
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It's a much bigger mess than '70s critics ever accused the original of being.
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It leads off the network's Thursday prime-time schedule, with the action originating in Miami and the scripts apparently bought from Godawful, Inc.
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[The original series] had energy and glamour and a self-aware sense of frothy fun, all of which are missing from this lugubrious update.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's not just a lazy idea, it's atrociously executed, pathetically acted and cynically conceived.
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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.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 60
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Mixed: 8 out of 60
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Negative: 40 out of 60
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Sep 25, 2011This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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