God, what a mindless film.
I haven't seen the first film, but heard that it was a critical bomb. Since I was staffing the screening today we had at noon for this one, I decided to stay and watch, and in part because I invited a friend from high school to it. I wanted it to be over before the halfway mark, and when the final chase/confrontation began, I thanked God.
After the third or fourth scene featuring the Angels in a new set of disguises, it begins to resemble not so much a movie as it does a sketch comedy in which each scene is a skit with different costumes that bears little importance with what scene came right before or what comes after it. Who was that `Thin Man' guy played by Crispin Glover supposed to be? And why were the Angels following that guy that Cameron Diaz met at the beach? I didn't get any of this, and after a while, I didn't care. The only thing going of the film was Cameron Diaz's rear end, and other assorted shots of the Angels in skimpy outfits. Most of the stunts were incredibly poor, had lousy F/X shots (except for the fight inside the warehouse with the Irish guy and his men, which I enjoyed), and Bernie Mac's minstrel routine just made me roll my eyes.
I haven't seen the first film, but heard that it was a critical bomb. Since I was staffing the screening today we had at noon for this one, I decided to stay and watch, and in part because I invited a friend from high school to it. I wanted it to be over before the halfway mark, and when the final chase/confrontation began, I thanked God.
After the third or fourth scene featuring the Angels in a new set of disguises, it begins to resemble not so much a movie as it does a sketch comedy in which each scene is a skit with different costumes that bears little importance with what scene came right before or what comes after it. Who was that `Thin Man' guy played by Crispin Glover supposed to be? And why were the Angels following that guy that Cameron Diaz met at the beach? I didn't get any of this, and after a while, I didn't care. The only thing going of the film was Cameron Diaz's rear end, and other assorted shots of the Angels in skimpy outfits. Most of the stunts were incredibly poor, had lousy F/X shots (except for the fight inside the warehouse with the Irish guy and his men, which I enjoyed), and Bernie Mac's minstrel routine just made me roll my eyes.