“Charlie’s Angels” is a movie based on a tv show I’ve never seen and is basically action scenes from “The Matrix”, humour from “Austin Powers” and a whole bunch of needless celebrity appearances. They show a trailer for a movie based on tv cop show “T.J. Hooker”. Now, that I’d like to see.

In “Charlie’s Angels”, Natalie (Cameron Diaz “Being John Malkovich”, “Shrek”), Alex (Lucy Liu “Shanghai Noon”) and Dylan (Drew Barrymore “Scream”) are three martial-arts experts, that use their sex appeal to complete missions for an anonymous millionaire. Their latest assignment turns out to be a set-up and they must do everything to stop the bad guys.

The girls themselves are okay as all they’ve got to do is jump while big explosions go off behind using special effects and they’ve got to look as they wear exotic clothing (they do look very creepy though when dressed as men) as things such as personality really come later in the list of priorities. Like I said there are lots of other famous faces including Bill Murray (“Ghostbusters”), Tom Green (“Freddy Got Fingered”), Matt LeBlanc (“Lost in Space”), Tim Curry (“Legend”) and Crispin Glover (“Back to the Future”) but none of them are particularly good with the exception of Bill Murray, who really feels a cut above this movie.

In many ways “Charlie’s Angels” is a horrible movie but in its own weird way I guess it does it very well but the problem is no matter how well you get your bizarre idea to work, it doesn’t make it a good one. “Charlie’s Angels” is a ‘girl-power’ movie full of bad dirty jokes and terrible fight scenes that dumb-down the physics from “The Matrix”. It isn’t a self-aware parody but rather an excuse for sexual behaviour, over the top stunts and lots of explosions but surprisingly the plot is quite detailed.