Charlie's Angels: Special Edition

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell
Director: McG

Rating: PG-13

Review Posted: 5.30.01

By Steve Tradd

Drew, Cameron, Lucy. Those three words make this one of my favorite movies from 2000. How can you go wrong? The Charlie's Angels saga continues with three new "Angels." You are quickly aquatinted to each of the girls and the plot starts to unfold.

A technology CEO has been kidnapped, and it is up to the Angels to find him. They also have to apprehend the CEO's stolen technology. This plot moves along quickly and twists and turns. Do not believe everything you see.

First time Director McG has done a stellar job of making this a fun, loud, colorful, and action packed thrill ride! So if you are in trouble, just give the Angels a call, they will be beautiful and will kick some bad guy ASS!

8 out of 10

The video quality from Sony is very impressive. When a film makes 125 million at the box office, you make sure it looks good on a television set. Also, the anamorphic video (fits any screen) works perfectly, without making the picture look squished.

8 out of 10

One of the most important parts of this movie is the music. The Digitally Mastered Audio is beyond impressive. Each beat just sounds better! Although you can hear the music great, you can still hear the dialogue perfectly. Sony has done a great job here! Dolby Digital 5.1

10 out of 10

On this extras heavy DVD you are shown everything about the making of this film. There is a full length Director Commentary, and a full length Cinematographer Commentary. There are featurettes on set design, how the girls are dressed up, the training for the martial arts sequences, and the stunts.

There are three deleted or extended scenes. They are not that impressive, and they were rightfully removed. All were shown at the end credits as bloopers.

The most interesting of all of the featurettes is the "Wired Angels:" which shows how the girls train for and how they move about in the wire sequences (which is every fight scene). They also show before and after shots of the film, with and without the wires, and I just have to say that those CGI guys did a great job, because there were a lot of wires!

The outtakes and bloopers is very disappointing, it is just the end reel without the text. The song "All The Small Things" by Blink 182 is played. There are also two music videos, one by Destiny's Child and the other by Apollo Four Forty (they play the revamped theme song).

There are also two trailers for the film. One Teaser, and One full length. Plus trailers for upcoming films such as: Final Fantasy, and Joe Dirt. The most impressive Extra is the animated menus, which are all over the place.

7 out of 10

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