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Yeah, yeah, yeah: Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is predictable, dull, filled with tits and buts, blaablaablaa. Most people seem to think so in here. Well, I don't say that the film was very unusual and pure art, but it was good entertainment... or at least I think so.

One of the comments here pointed out Crispin Glovers "useless" character "Thin man". Well, he was one of my favorites in the film. Somehow it gives something weird to this easy-plotted movie. Creepy Thin Man is great. The man doesn't talk, he mostly smokes and in the tough situations he takes his sword. Simple, but effective. A man that actually doesn't do pretty much anything is refreshing! Everyone else is doing something for a reason: trying to kill the good guys or try to prevent the bad guy killing the good guys. How predictable, how old situation. But suddenly a man with a cigarette and a cane arrives and the movie gets some unpredictable action and excitement in it.

This movie was very smoothly done. Everything was okay. But.... that was also the problem: the plot was very usual, too "smooth". Nothing rocky, except the Creepy Thin Man.

I liked this though I also prefer "intellectual" movies. I guess I was having a right mood for this. And... I must still point out: Crispin Glover's "meaningless" role meant a lot to me. A little bit of magic maybe... A good freak among the good, bad and....beautiful.

Le Comte de Monte Cristo is well done. Actors are made for their roles. Gerard Depardieu is fabulous in the role of count and Sergio Rubini makes the servant Bertuccio alive. In the novel Bertuccio was in a much smaller role. In the TV-version other characters have got bigger roles. It's a good thing that not only the count of Monte-Cristo is showing. I really recommend this beautifully done TV-film for everyone. After seeing this I started to appreciate the French in the film world in a very different way.

So beautiful, so ugly, so sad, so happy... there must be dozens different adjectives that describe this movie. Chaplin and Coogan are a great, unforgettable pair. In Coogan you can see little Charlie Chaplin. Little kid plays his role better than well... he's great and so is "the big" Chaplin as well! There's so much beauty in the story. The movie tells in a simple way a story about a little boy, a tramp and a desperate woman. In a cute Chaplin way everything has a happy end but before the happy end there's a lot of sadness... and of course also many funny scenes. I think it's amazing how Chaplin can make little things so funny. Charlie Chaplin's mimic is amazingly good, best in the world. His face can show all the feelings incredibly well and little Coogan has learned that from Chaplin. This film must be the most beautiful story about vagabond's life. Maybe Chaplin's best film! All Chaplin's films are worth of watching and especially this one! This movie shows that words are not needed in the movies... words are just disturbing the great mimic. One picture tells more than thousand words, Chaplin really shows that that's true!