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 This is dreadfully awful. But, it has that summer feel all over it – a no-brainer that’s likeable for vegetating in those cool, tranquil evenings when you’re required to only lounge with exquisite blankness and ease.

 From dirt bike races, rodeo at Mongolia, martial arts, and a climatic duel, to the exhilarating soundtrack that continually churns out hits from the 60s to today; this has all the hallmarks of a summer blockbuster. It is hardly challenging viewing but is nevertheless good-natured. The plot is the least of the filmmaker’s worries – what counts is style. This is tailored by a music video director, Joseph McGinty Nichol, who brings that sensibility with him in shaping the film’s aesthetic.

 It’s also based around the personalities of the three leads. Dylan (Barrymoore), Alex (Lu), and Natalie (Diaz) are Charlie’s Angels, three different girls who come together to fight crime, and who define what the film is about. Then there is their arch-nemesis, played by Demi Moore, and the Angels are onto her of course.

 There are some just plain dumb moments in this, but can be forgiven because what does one expect from Charlie’s Angels marketed as such? In any case, the only really memorable part is the music, a mixture of old and new tracks that sound just as good in the cinema as in a concert. Although this has a flat story it can’t be overly criticised because this is pop cinema, at its pop corniest, pop eye candy, a pure escapist fantasy, that uncomfortably inserts a thoughtful last minute corny note of something semi-religious (now, Charlie’s Angels are angels, of course, and good ones at that). It gets away with silly sexual double entendres and the fantasy and idolisation of appealingly feminised leads, with support from a funny and idiosyncratic Bernie Mac as Bosley.

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