Full Throttle Indeed
Jul. 7th, 2003 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cdybedahlWe just saw Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Which most of you already saw or decided to miss, but anyway. It recently premiered over here, and today we were bored.
And I liked it quite a lot, actually. More than I liked the first one. This surprised me somewhat, since I really didn't expect more than three pretty girls kicking the ass of stupid villains. Which was, more or less, exactly what I got.
But somehow it managed to go beyond that. It was as if the people making it had gone "Ok, people are going to watch this to see sexy chicks and mindless action, and by damn are we going to give it to them!" The premise was inane, the plot was stupid, the action was preposterous, the sex was gratuitous -- and they made all that into virtues. The premise and plot was totally subordinate to the action and sex. The action was amazingly preposterous. The sex was unbelievably gratuitous. If you move things along fast enough and have sufficiently entertaining distractions along the way, nobody'll care that the plot sucks. So, as the title says, Full Throttle.
Plus, they must've had a blast putting together the soundtrack. Which worked splendidly, by the way. When you get music from Sound of Music and Flashdance within minutes of each other, followed by Bon Jovi's old "Living on a Prayer", you just know that what you're watching was never meant to be taken seriously.
I'll be buying this when it comes out on DVD. Possibly I'll not even wait until it becomes cheap (as I'm doing with Die Another Day).
And I liked it quite a lot, actually. More than I liked the first one. This surprised me somewhat, since I really didn't expect more than three pretty girls kicking the ass of stupid villains. Which was, more or less, exactly what I got.
But somehow it managed to go beyond that. It was as if the people making it had gone "Ok, people are going to watch this to see sexy chicks and mindless action, and by damn are we going to give it to them!" The premise was inane, the plot was stupid, the action was preposterous, the sex was gratuitous -- and they made all that into virtues. The premise and plot was totally subordinate to the action and sex. The action was amazingly preposterous. The sex was unbelievably gratuitous. If you move things along fast enough and have sufficiently entertaining distractions along the way, nobody'll care that the plot sucks. So, as the title says, Full Throttle.
Plus, they must've had a blast putting together the soundtrack. Which worked splendidly, by the way. When you get music from Sound of Music and Flashdance within minutes of each other, followed by Bon Jovi's old "Living on a Prayer", you just know that what you're watching was never meant to be taken seriously.
I'll be buying this when it comes out on DVD. Possibly I'll not even wait until it becomes cheap (as I'm doing with Die Another Day).
