Charlie's Angels Movie Review
The spy game is up. You can thank Charlie’s Angels -- the movie -- for that.
When did banality and pandering become okay? Just steal from Hong Kong, The Matrix, and a kitschy TV show from the mid-1970s and that's a movie? Charlie’s Angels is one of the worst examples of action film homogeneity and shameless duplicity in any film I've seen in ages.
Charlie’s Angels is dumb. Just plain dumb. As we all know, three of the hottest females on the planet –- Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu -– are three super-agents working for the mysterious millionaire named Charlie. They all drive fast cars, look oh-so-fabulous even in the morning, and don’t seem to get a scratch even when fighting armed men, having buildings explode ten feet in front of them, or flying through the air in Matrix slow-motion. And while the entourage spends 90 minutes romping around in cleavage-busting wetsuits, cleavage-busting waitress uniforms, and cleavage-busting wet t-shirts, they scarcely succeed in resembling so much as a group of annoying, drunk sorority girls, the kind who hit on everybody at a party.
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The Devil Wears Prada Movie Review
We've all had the proverbial "bad job." In fact, so many people have had the proverbial bad job that there's a cottage industry of books and movies about having a bad job. From 9 to 5 to Office Space, the evil bosses of the world never seem to catch a break.
The Devil Wears Prada is the latest in that line and an indictment of the fashion magazine industry, based on author Lauren Weisberger's experience as an assistant to the notoriously fussy Vogue editor Anna Wintour. The film follows every tradition we've come to expect from this genre: Plucky yet unrefined Andrea (she rides the subway!) is fresh off the boat from college. She soon lucks into a job offer from Runway editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), and we know from the first scene it's going to be a terrible match.
Andrea (Anne Hathaway) is slow to pick up on Miranda's obsessive needs, which require her to hang up her coat and purse, fetch skirts at a moment's notice, get coffee, and do other menial tasks befitting someone who's never had a job before. But Andrea hangs in there. She knows that if she sticks it out at Runway, doors throughout the publishing industry will magically open for her and she'll be able to work just about anywhere. She wants to be a real writer of course, not a lap dog for a crusty, evil fashionista.
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