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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

2003

Director: McG (aka Joseph McGinty)

Action director: Yuen Cheng-Yan

Stars: Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, Bernie Mac

This was one of the biggest flops of 2003, and it's easy to see why. To be perfectly honest, I only got through about 20 minutes of this dreck before I had to stop. Even I -- a guy who has sat through most of Wong Jing's work and enjoyed it -- have my limits. My particular limit was reached here when Cameron Diaz (looking in incredible need of a cheeseburger) started imitating MC Hammer. If you're a little 12-year-old girl or someone with a very low IQ, you might find that kind of thing funny, but it just pushed the "wannabe hip" factor over the top for me, and I had to hit the stop button.

You might find fault in a review where the writer didn't actually watch the full film, but I'm not getting paid for this. In fact, it would take a pretty hefty sum to make me wade through this movie's two-plus hours' running time. I'd rather get a catheder put in my urethra by a militant hairy-armed man-hating nurse than sit through crap like this; at least the pain would be over quicker. It takes a lot for me to not like (much less hate) a movie, but congratulations girls, you've done it with this steaming pile of poo.

RATING: 0

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