Hollywood Watch: Charlie’s Angels’ shallowness attracts audience

"They're beautiful, they kick ass and they work for Charlie," is the pickup line of one of the shallowest, no-plot commercial recently released Hollywood movies.

The line does not talk about how clever, aware and work for the greater good these girls were. Probably they were not in the first place.

"On June 27, 2003, America's greatest secret weapon will be unleashed again as Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz), Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore) and Alex Munday (Lucy Liu) reunite for a challenging new adventure in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, a sequel to the blockbuster action comedy, directed by McG and inspired by the phenomenally popular television series," read the movie's pamphlet.

"The Angels prepare to strike without warning as they go undercover to retrieve two missing silver bands. These are no ordinary rings. They contain valuable encrypted information that reveal the new identities of every person in the Federal Witness Protection Program," it added.

"When witnesses start turning up dead, only the Angels, using their expertise as masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts, can stop the perpetrator, a mysterious fallen Angel (Demi Moore). Aided by their trusty colleague, Jimmy Bosley (Bernie Mac), the Angels' adventure begins at a remote Mongolian outpost and ends only after Dylan (Barrymore) is forced to face a dark secret from her past, a secret that puts the lives of her two best friends in danger."

This article does not aim at undermining the importance of entertainment. It only pities the huge sums of money spent on a movie that does not have the least of wit or intelligence.

Marketed as a kind of a James Bond movie, and borrowing from the fight scenes of another Hollywood movie, Matrix, the movie failed to come up with any theme, clever plot or wit.

Instead, the movie was closer to a fashion show with four of the "beautiful" Hollywood ladies, again display the American perspective of degrading women and enslaving her beauty on the behalf of liberation.