Does the fact that this unwanted update of the 'Charlie’s Angels' franchise is less awful than expected make it worth seeing? Read Travers' review
Does the fact that this unwanted update of thefranchise is less awful than expected make it worth seeing? In the devalued world of the current multiplex, maybe so. It’s hard not to appreciate the feminist, Time’s Up spark that director-producer-writer-actorCharlie’s Angels
is still shuffling the same spy-babes clichés that spawned a 1970s TV hit , a hit big-screen version in 2000 that wore out its welcome with a lousy 2003 sequel — and a 2011 TV reboot so lame it barely lasted eight episodes.2019, a globe-trotting puff of escapism, should be the nail in the coffin. That it isn’t exactly is due to Banks and her crew of woke Angels.
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